On this day: November 8
POSTED: 10:52 PM PST Nov 07, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 07, 2012
Gunslinger Doc Holliday dies, the X-ray is discovered by accident, John F. Kennedy is elected president, the Florida recount begins, and the "Guitar Hero" craze is born, all on this day.
National Archives and Records Administration
1933: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an early New Deal organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed during the Great Depression. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter.
