Tuesday, November 08, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 8
1892:With his victory over incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, former President Grover Cleveland becomes the first and only person elected to two nonconsecutive terms as U.S. chief executive.

1960: Forty-three-year-old John F. Kennedy, a senator from Massachusetts, is narrowly elected over Vice President Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest elected president in the nation's history.

2000: Vice President Al Gore telephones Texas Gov. George W. Bush to retract his concession, made hours earlier, in the presidential election. Bush will be declared the winner of the election on Dec. 13 by a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, yet controversy still surrounds thousands of ballots rejected by voting machines.
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