Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Today in History

On this date in:

1889
Montana became the 41st state.


1892
Former President Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only president to win non-consecutive terms in the White House.


1923
Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt to seize power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, that came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch.


1932
New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency.


1933
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.


1942
American and British forces landed in French North Africa during World War II.


1960
Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.

President-elect John F. Kennedy

1966
Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first black to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.


1971
The rock band Led Zeppelin released its album ''Led Zeppelin IV.''


1987
A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing 11 people.


1988
Vice President George H.W. Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.


1994
Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years and won a majority in the Senate in midterm elections.


1997
Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.


2000
A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in Florida. Vice President Al Gore telephoned Texas Gov. George W. Bush to concede the election, but called back about an hour later to retract his concession.

2000
Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report absolving the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.

2004
Thousands of U.S. troops attacked the toughest strongholds of Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, launching a long-awaited offensive aimed at putting an end to guerrilla control of the city.

2005
French President Jacques Chirac declared a 12-day state of emergency to halt France's worst civil unrest in nearly four decades.

2005
Gunmen assassinated a second lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial in Baghdad.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

yes, i'm sure you have much better tasting coffee ;)
BUT, as soon as bifcat opens... I think my tastebuds won't be so ashamed as they are now

Anonymous said...

ZOSO!!!! forget that other stuff and think of how much different the world would be without that album.

ok. maybe i give led zep too much credit. but maybe not.