On this day: November 2
POSTED: 05:44 PM PDT Nov 01, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Nov 01, 2012
Gen. George Washington says goodbye to his troops, cheerleading is born, the "Spruce Goose" takes off, Truman defeats Dewey, and a federal holiday is created to honor Martin Luther King Jr., all on this day.
Public domain
1755: Marie Antoinette is born an archduchess of Austria at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. She would later marry Louis-Auguste, the heir apparent to the French throne, and eventually become the queen of France. However, after Louis XVI was deposed during the French Revolution and executed in January 1793, she too would be imprisoned, convicted for treason and executed by guillotine on Oct. 16, 1793.
