Today is Tuesday, November 8, the 312th day of 2011. 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
1864 ― Abraham Lincoln elected to his second term as President
1895 ― Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1932 ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected President for first time
1950 ― First jet-plane battle of Korean War
1960 ― JFK (Mass., D beats V.P. Richard Nixon (R) for President
1979 ― ABC broadcasts ``Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to ``Nightline")
1980 ― Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1990 ― Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian Peninsula