Today in History: November 8, Florida election recount begins

Currently is Saturday Nov the th day of There are days left in the year In the present day in history On Nov a statewide recount began in Florida which emerged as critical in deciding the winner of the presidential polling between Republican George W Bush and Democratic Vice President Al Gore The recount would officially end on Dec upon orders from the U S Supreme Court delivering Florida s electoral votes and the presidency to Bush Also on this date In President Abraham Lincoln won reelection as he defeated Democratic challenger George B McClellan Related Articles Investigators look into repeating bell heard during takeoff of UPS cargo plane that crashed A lesser-known Farmers Almanac will fold after centuries citing money trouble Supreme Court issues urgency order to block full SNAP food aid payments Supreme Court weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide More than Denver flights canceled as DIA s air traffic controllers work without pay In Montana was admitted to the Union as the st state In Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch In the Allies launched Operation Torch in World War II as U S and British forces landed in French North Africa In during the Korean War the first air-to-air combat between jet warplanes took place as U S Air Force Lt Russell J Brown shot down a North Korean MiG- In John F Kennedy won the U S presidential voting process over Vice President Richard M Nixon In a federal judge in Cleveland citing insufficient evidence dismissed charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen accused of violating the civil rights of students killed or wounded in the Kent State shootings In Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the January shootings in Tucson Arizona that killed six people and wounded others including Rep Gabrielle Giffords In Typhoon Haiyan one of the the majority powerful storms ever recorded slammed into the central Philippines leaving more than people dead or missing flattening villages and displacing more than million In Republican Donald Trump was elected America s th president defeating Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton in an astonishing triumph for a celebrity businessman and political novice In tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire in Northern California that would become the state s deadliest ever killing people and nearly destroying the locality of Paradise This day s Birthdays Racing Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero Jr is Singer Bonnie Raitt is TV personality Mary Hart is Actor Alfre Woodard is inger-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro is Filmmaker Richard Curtis is Chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay is Actor Courtney Thorne-Smith is Actor Parker Posey is Actor Gretchen Mol is News anchor David Muir is Actor Matthew Rhys is Actor Tara Reid is TV personality Jack Osbourne is Actor Jessica Lowndes is Baseball member Giancarlo Stanton is R B singer SZA is