Today is Thursday, November 8, the 313
th
day of 2012. 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
1944 ― 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to the Nazis for forced labor
1950 ― First jet-plane battle of Korean War
1956 ― U.N. demands USSR leave Hungary
1966 ― Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1990 ― 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to the Persian Gulf
1990 ― Saddam Hussein fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian Peninsula