Today is Saturday, November 8th, day 312 of 2025. There are 53 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On November 8, 2000, a recount began in Florida that played a decisive role in determining the winner of the 2000 presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democratic Vice President Al Gore. The recount will officially end on Dec. 12, ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, handing Florida's electoral votes and the presidency to Bush.
Also on this day:
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln was re-elected, defeating Democratic challenger George B. McClellan.
In 1889, Montana was admitted to the Union as the 41st state.
In 1923, Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to seize power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that became known as the Beer Hall Putsch.
In 1942, the Allies launched Operation Torch during World War II, when American and British troops landed in French North Africa.
In 1950, during the Korean War, the first air combat between jet warplanes occurred when US Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the US presidential election over Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
In 1974, a federal judge in Cleveland, citing insufficient evidence, dismissed charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen accused of violating the civil rights of students killed or wounded in the 1970 Kent State shootings.
In 2012, Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the January 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that left six people dead and 13 others wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, struck the central Philippines, leaving more than 7,300 people dead or missing, leveling villages and displacing more than 5 million people.
In 2016, Republican Donald Trump was elected America's 45th president, defeating Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton in a surprising victory for the famed businessman and political newcomer.
In 2018, tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire in Northern California that became the deadliest in the state's history, killing 86 people and nearly wiping out the community of Paradise.
Today's birthday people:
- Racing Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero Jr. is 83 years old.
- Singer Bonnie Raitt is 76 years old.
- TV presenter Mary Hart is 75 years old.
- Actor Alfre Woodard is 73 years old.
- American songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 71 years old.
- Nobel Prize-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro is 71 years old.
- Director Richard Curtis is 69 years old.
- Chef and TV presenter Gordon Ramsay is 59 years old.
- Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith is 58 years old.
- Actor Parker Posey is 57 years old.
- Actress Gretchen Mol is 53 years old.
- News anchor David Muir is 52 years old.
- Actor Matthew Rhys is 51 years old.
- Actress Tara Reid is 50 years old.
- TV presenter Jack Osbourne is 40 years old.
- Actor Jessica Lowndes is 37 years old.
- Baseball player Giancarlo Stanton is 36 years old.
- R&B singer SZA is 36 years old.
