MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Today is Monday, November 8, the 312th day of 2010. There are 53 days left in the year.

1789 _ Bourbon Whiskey, first distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon, Ky.)

1793 _ Louvre in Paris opens

1895 _ Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays

1950 _ First jet-plane battle of Korean War

1956 _ U.N. demands USSR leave Hungary

1960 _ Sen. John F. Kennedy (Mass.-D) beats V.P. Richard R. Nixon (R) for U.S. president

1968 _ Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John

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

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

1994 _ Republicans regain control of U.S. Congress