NOVEMBER 8
1960:At age 43, John Fitzgerald Kennedy becomes the youngest person elected president of the United States, defeating Richard Nixon by 0.1 percent of the popular vote. The outcome is so close, Nixon does not concede until the following day.
1895: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen first observes x-rays while experimenting with cathode rays in his lab in Würzburg, Germany. The accidental discovery will win Roentgen the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 and will have a substantial impact on diagnostic medicine and many other fields.
1966: Edward. W. Brooke becomes the first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate, winning a seat for the Republican Party in Massachusetts.
1895: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen first observes x-rays while experimenting with cathode rays in his lab in Würzburg, Germany. The accidental discovery will win Roentgen the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 and will have a substantial impact on diagnostic medicine and many other fields.
1966: Edward. W. Brooke becomes the first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate, winning a seat for the Republican Party in Massachusetts.
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