Today in History - History - November 2nd

1960Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222

1960Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago.

1783General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War

1969Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open

1880James A Garfield (R) elected 20th US President

1852Franklin Pierce elected as president of US

2003Grant Fuhr is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame

1824Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams

1934Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan

1974Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May

1865Warren G. Harding, Blooming Grove Ohio, American President (1921-1923)

1941Dave Stockton, San Bernardino California, golfer and two-time PGA Champion (1970, 1976)

1934Ken Rosewall, Sydney Australia, tennis star (US Open 1956)

1795James Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1845-1849)

1755Marie Antoinette, Vienna, Queen of France(1774-1792), "let them eat cake", (d. 1793)

1734Daniel Boone, Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915), (d. 182)

1887Baseball legend Connie Mack (24) weds Margaret Hogan

1896Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (19) weds first cousin Shahzadi Begum in Pune, India

2004Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, dies at 85

1980Willie Sutton, American bank robber, dies at 79

1996Toni Stone, first woman to play professional baseball in a men's league, dies at 75

1950George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94