Hankering For History: Events that happened today in history, Nov 8th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 8th!

1793	The Louvre opens in Paris.
1861	Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent.
1864	President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first wartime election in the United States.
1887	Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
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.
1900	Theodore Dresier’s first novel Sister Carrie is published by Doubleday, but is recalled from stores shortly due to public sentiment.
1904	President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President William McKinley.
1910	The Democrats prevail in congressional elections for the first time since 1894.
1923	Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the “Beer Hall Putsch,” and proclaims himself chancellor and Ludendorff dictator.
1932	New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president over incumbent Herbert Hoover.
1938	Crystla Bird Fauset of Pennsylvania, becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to a state legislature.
1942	The United States and Great Britain invade Axis-occupied North Africa.
1960	John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880.
1966	Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the Senate in 85 years.
1966	Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1971	The album “Led Zeppelin IV,” which included the song “Stairway to Heaven,” was released.
1983	Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia.
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	An engine fire aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship left nearly 4,500 aboard without electricity during a three-day tow to San Diego.
2010	Talk show host Conan O’Brien made his debut on TBS.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.