ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
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.
On Nov. 8, 1960, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first black to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
1966 Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
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. Eleven people were killed.
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.
BIRTHDAYS:
Tara Reid turns 30 years old today.
74 Morley Safer
Broadcast journalist (''60 Minutes'')
56 Bonnie Raitt
Rock-blues musician
55 Mary Hart
TV host (''Entertainment Tonight'')
53 Christie Hefner
CEO of Playboy Enterprises
51 Rickie Lee Jones
Singer-songwriter
44 Leif Garrett
Singer
38 Courtney Thorne-Smith
Actress (''According to Jim'')
37 Parker Posey
Actress
24 Azura Skye
Actress
22 Chris Rankin
Actor (''Harry Potter'' movies)
20 Jack Osbourne
TV personality (''The Osbournes'')
Good morning all, hope everyone has a great and profitable day.
And now... on to drinking about 19 cups of coffee....