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This day in history: November 8

1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1932 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected the 32nd President of the United States defeating Herbert Hoover.

1933 - President Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.

1960 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the United States defeating Richard M. Nixon.

1966 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.

2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

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