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Today in History: Thursday, November 08, 2012
On Nov. 8, 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president over incumbent Herbert Hoover.
1889 Montana became the 41st state.
1892 Former President Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only president to win non-consecutive terms in the White House.
1923 Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt to seize power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany.
1960 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the presidential election.
1966 Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1971 The album "Led Zeppelin IV," which included the song "Stairway to Heaven," was released.
1972 The premium cable TV network HBO (Home Box Office) made its debut with a showing of the movie "Sometimes a Great Notion."
1987 A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing 11 people.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush won the presidential election, beating Democrat Michael Dukakis.
1994 Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
1997 Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
2000 A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in Florida.
2004 Thousands of U.S. troops attacked strongholds of Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq.
2010 Talk show host Conan O'Brien made his debut on TBS.
