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.

OTD November 8 - Bil Keane
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Christopher Keane/Wikimedia Commons

2011: Cartoonist Bil Keane, best known as the creator of the long-running newspaper comic "The Family Circus," dies from congestive heart failure at the age of 89 in Paradise Valley, Ariz.

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