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.
Penguin Books
1960: In the trial R v. Penguin Books Ltd. in London, England, Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity for publishing D. H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover," a book that became notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words.
