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Today In History: November 2

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Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein, 38-year-old President of the City-County Board of Supervisors and candidate for mayor of San Francisco, prepares to cast her ballot in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 1971. The city’s registrar of voters has predicted a 75 percent turnout for the election in which Mayor Joseph L. Alioto seeks another term in office. (AP Photo/Sal Veder)

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Dewey Defeats Truman
U.S. President Harry S. Truman holds up an Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced "Dewey Defeats Truman" on Nov. 4, 1948. The president told well-wishers at St. Louis' Union Station, "That is one for the books!" (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

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India Demonstrations 1947
One of the village about 20 miles northwest of Sranan India Nov. 2, 1947. The houses are burning. (AP Photo/Max Desfor)

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New York Streets
Governor Alfred E. Smith comes back to his hometown via Broadway in New York on Nov. 2, 1928. Smith was accorded the greatest recession ever given a political candidate in the history of New York. (AP Photo)

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Governor Alfred E. Smith Reception
The greatest reception ever accorded a political candidate in the history of New York City, was given to Governor Alfred E. Smith when the Democratic presidential candidate paraded up Broadway between lines of thousands of cheering New Yorkers, Nov. 2, 1928 in New York. Gov. Smith, seated on the back of his car, as he drove up Broadway between a storms of paper. (AP Photo)

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Al Smith 1928
Governor Alfred E. Smith speaks in New York on Nov. 2, 1928 for the Liberty Loans. (AP Photo)

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ANITA LOOS
Author and playwright Anita Loos poses on the ship Olympic on Nov. 2, 1929. Loos is the author of the hit "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." (AP Photo)

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Empress Waizeru Menen of Ethiopia Coronation Portrait
Wiezero Manen, wife of Ras Tafari, who will be crowned Empress of Abyssinia with her husband as Emperor, in Coronation Ceremonies at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia on Nov. 2, 1930 . (AP Photo)

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AKRON DIRIGIBLE OVER MANHATTAN
The USS Navy Air Cruiser Akron flies over lower Manhattan's financial district in New York City on Nov. 2, 1931. The dirigible is on its way back to the hangar at Lakehurst, N.J., ending her maiden voyage over eastern cities. The East River is at right, and the Hudson River is at left. (AP Photo)

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Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library
The reading room of the new Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2, 1931. It will in time house the 75,000-volume collection--the world’s greatest of Shakespeariana--given by the late Henry C. Folger of New York. (AP Photo)

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Barrymore Tradition
Samuel Barrymore Colt, son of Ethel Barrymore and nephew of John and Lionel Barrymore, who makes his first stage appearance in a forthcoming motion picture, under the direction of the only woman film director, Dorothy Arzner, shown with him on the set, Nov. 2, 1931. Colt, who is 21 years old, lives alone in a modest Hollywood, California apartment and hopes to succeed in pictures on his own ability, "without family influence." (AP Photo)

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Geneva Conference
The scene at the conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Nov. 2, 1931. The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson is seen in centre, on left are seen Aristide Briand; Dino Grandi, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs; and Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister. A new alliance of the leading nations of the world was proclaimed by Arthur Henderson when he called upon the Government’s to turn their backs on war and warfare. (AP Photo)

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Will Rogers
Amon Carter, publisher of the Ft. Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram, presented these leaders with ten-gallon hats of the Texas variety in New York City on Nov. 2, 1932. From left to right, front: James Farley, Democratic national chairman; Bernard Baruch; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; and Will Rogers. Back row: Edward Flynn, Secretary of State; and Carter. (AP Photo)

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Planes over H.M.S. Furious
Planes carry out training maneuvers over the H.M.S. Furious in the Mediterranean, on Nov. 2, 1933. (AP Photo/Staff/Puttnam)

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BATHYSPHERE
Dr. William Beebe, noted oceanographer, and John T. Vann, an associate, right, arrive in New York from Bermuda on Nov. 2, 1934 with the "Bathysphere," in which Beebe plunged to record ocean depths. His deepest dive was 3,028 feet. Dr. Beebe returned on the Monarch of Bermuda. (AP Photo)

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U.S. VOTING MACHINE
A New York polling place uses a voting machine for the first time during the general election on Nov. 2, 1935. (AP Photo)

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NYC TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE
Bridge workers stand on steel beams during construction of the Triborough Bridge over the East River between Ward's Island and Manhattan on Nov. 2, 1935. (AP Photo)

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COMMUNIST CANDIDATE BROWDER
Earl Browder, right, Communist U.S. presidential candidate, crosses a hammer with a sickle held by Charles Krumbein, state secretary of the Communist Party, as they stand before a crowd gathered for the final rally of the campaign at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Nov. 2, 1936. (AP Photo)

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England William Morris Riding Bicycle
William Morris, Lord Nuffield, motor car and motor cycle pioneer and manufacturer of the famous Morris cars, riding a bike at the opening of a motor cycle and bicycle show at Olympia, London on Nov. 2, 1936. Although little change has been made in the models of last year, the makers claim that the cycle of 1937 will be the safest ever made. (AP Photo/Staff/Len Puttnam)

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President Roosevelt and John Roosevelt
John E. Mack, who introduced President Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia introduced the president again when the latter made one of his final speeches in his campaign for re-election in Poughkeepsie, New York on Nov. 2, 1936. Mr. Roosevelt spoke from a balcony of the Nelson house. Left to right: President and John Roosevelt. (AP Photo/Joe Caneva)

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FDR 1936
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the study of Krum Elbow, his Hyde Park estate in New York, Nov. 2, 1936, from where he broadcast his final appeal to the electorate to the nation. (AP Photo/Joe Caneva)

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SEABISCUIT OWNER HOWARD
Seabiscuit receives a carrot in his stable from owner Marcela Howard at Pimlico at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 2, 1938. (AP Photo)

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Siegfried Line
Three German machine gunners man a weapon whose nose just peeps out of the German bank of the Rhine River on Nov. 2, 1938, across from France. This gun is just one of many which the third Reich has buried almost completely underground to make a mammoth fortification system rivaling France’s Maginot line. (AP Photo)

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London Queen Mary
Queen Mary visited the Imperial Institute, London, and toured the disabled Ex-servicemen’s Exhibition, which is to be opened formally the following day by the American ambassador, Joseph P. Kennedy. The Queen intends to purchase gifts at the exhibition, particularly with an eye to Christmas presents. Queen Mary interested in blind Jack Fleming of the 29th Middlesex Regiment, working on jewellery at the Imperial Institute Exhibition in London, on Nov. 2, 1938. (AP Photo)

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