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Posted by Don Fitzgerald on 11/8/2009, 6:31 am
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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 was elected president over incumbent Herbert Hoover.
1966 Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
1971 The album "Led Zeppelin IV," which included the song "Stairway to Heaven," was released.
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, beating 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.
2004 Thousands of U.S. troops attacked strongholds of Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq.
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