Today is Saturday, November 8, the 312th day of 2025. There are 53 days left in the year.
**Today in History:**
– On November 8, 2000, a statewide recount began in Florida, which emerged as critical in deciding the winner of the 2000 presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democratic Vice President Al Gore. The recount officially ended on December 12 upon orders from the U.S. Supreme Court, delivering Florida’s electoral votes and the presidency to Bush.
– In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln won reelection, defeating Democratic challenger George B. McClellan.
– In 1889, Montana was admitted to the Union as the 41st state.
– In 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich, known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch.”
– In 1942, during World War II, the Allies launched Operation Torch as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa.
– In 1950, during the Korean War, the first air-to-air combat between jet warplanes took place when U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.
– In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the U.S. presidential election over Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
– In 1974, a federal judge in Cleveland dismissed charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen accused of violating the civil rights of students killed or wounded in the 1970 Kent State shootings, citing insufficient evidence.
– In 2012, Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people and wounded 13 others, 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, flattening 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 a celebrity businessman and political novice.
– In 2018, tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire in Northern California that became the state’s deadliest ever, killing 86 people and nearly destroying the community of Paradise.
**Today’s Birthdays:**
– Angel Cordero Jr., Racing Hall of Fame jockey, is 83.
– Bonnie Raitt, singer, is 76.
– Mary Hart, TV personality, is 75.
– Alfre Woodard, actor, is 73.
– Rickie Lee Jones, singer-songwriter, is 71.
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize-winning author, is 71.
– Richard Curtis, filmmaker, is 69.
– Gordon Ramsay, chef and TV personality, is 59.
– Courtney Thorne-Smith, actor, is 58.
– Parker Posey, actor, is 57.
– Gretchen Mol, actor, is 53.
– David Muir, news anchor, is 52.
– Matthew Rhys, actor, is 51.
– Tara Reid, actor, is 50.
– Jack Osbourne, TV personality, is 40.
– Jessica Lowndes, actor, is 37.
– Giancarlo Stanton, baseball player, is 36.
– SZA, R&B singer, is 36.
— By The Associated Press
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