Today is Saturday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2025. There are 53 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Nov. 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 would officially end on Dec. 12 upon orders from the U.S. Supreme Court, delivering Florida’s electoral votes and the presidency to Bush.
Also on this date:
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln won reelection as he defeated 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 that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch.”
In 1942, the Allies launched Operation Torch in World War II 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 as 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, 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 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, slammed into the central Philippines, leaving more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattening villages and displacing more than 5 million.
In 2016, Republican Donald Trump was elected America’s 45th president, defeating Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton in an astonishing victory for a celebrity businessman and political novice.
In 2018, tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire in Northern California that would become the state’s deadliest ever, killing 86 people and nearly destroying the community of Paradise.
Today’s Birthdays:
- Racing Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero Jr. is 83.
- Singer Bonnie Raitt is 76.
- TV personality Mary Hart is 75.
- Actor Alfre Woodard is 73.
- inger-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 71.
- Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro is 71.
- Filmmaker Richard Curtis is 69.
- Chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay is 59.
- Actor Courtney Thorne-Smith is 58.
- Actor Parker Posey is 57.
- Actor Gretchen Mol is 53.
- News anchor David Muir is 52.
- Actor Matthew Rhys is 51.
- Actor Tara Reid is 50.
- TV personality Jack Osbourne is 40.
- Actor Jessica Lowndes is 37.
- Baseball player Giancarlo Stanton is 36.
- R&B singer SZA is 36.
