TODAY is Thursday, November 8, the 312th day of 2007. There are 53 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE

In 1932, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the US presidency.

In 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the US presidency.

In 1966, Edward W. Brooke, Republican-Massachusetts, became the first black candidate to be elected to the US Senate by popular vote.

In 1987, 11 people were killed when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded as crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honouring Britain's war dead.

In 1988, Vice President George Bush won the US presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling." ¿ Margaret Lee Runbeck, American author (1905-1956).