THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Today is Thursday, November 8, the 312th day of 2007. There are 53 days left in the year.

618 _ St. Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic pope

1793 _ Louvre in Paris opens

1864 _ Abraham Lincoln elected to his second term as president

1889 _ Montana admitted as the 41st U.S. state

1904 _ President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)

1944 _ 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to the Nazis for forced labor

1950 _ First jet-plane battle of Korean War

1956 _ The U.N. demands the USSR leave Hungary

1960 _ JFK (MA-D) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President

1966 _ Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California

1979 _ ABC broadcasts ``Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds

1987 _ 11 die as a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at Ulster Remembrance Day Service

1988 _ 900 die as earthquake hits China

1988 _ George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for Presidency

1990 _ 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to the Persian Gulf

1990 _ Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy the Arabian peninsula

1994 _ Republicans regain control of U.S. Congress