If the US government shutdown continues into tomorrow (3 November) it will become the longest in the country's history

Senate Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked over Obamacare subsidies as the shutdown nears historic length.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 2, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Servic) High temperature: 78 degrees (1974) Low temperature: 14 degrees (1951) Precipitation: 0.

1948: The Tribune was on deadline. In the absence of election results, the newspaper assumed that New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) would sink incumbent Harry S. Truman (Democrat). He didn’t. And the blunder — “Dewey Defeats Truman” — appeared atop a single edition of the Tribune.

Every day has a history. It's a story filled with moments that shaped people, nations, ideas and change. And today, November 5, is no exception. On this date centuries ago, daring plots, primary elections and moments of defiance took place.

More than 200 guns — picked up by county police over the past 13 years from murders, suicide victims, suspicious characters and bookie joints — were destroyed Tuesday afternoon at Media. Among the weapons was the .

2004: Donald Trump, whose namesake building would be constructed on the site, watched as demolition began on the Chicago Sun-Times building along the Chicago River. Completed in 2009, Trump International Hotel & Tower is the second-tallest building in Chicago.

A group of Iranian students charged into the gates and scaled the walls of the US embassy in Tehran on 1979. They took more than 60 American diplomats and citizens hostage for the next 444 days, straining diplomatic ties between Iran and the US.

On November 3, 1965, Major Robert Rushworth made the first flight of the modified X-15A-2 rocketplane, reaching Mach 2.31 over California. The upgraded aircraft paved the way for record-breaking missions and now resides at the National Museum of the U.