November 3, 1948 – “Dewey Defeats Truman” is the banner headline on the front page of the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Printed before polls closed, their polling projections were infamously wrong because Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election.
November 4, 1922 – King Tut’s tomb is discovered at Luxor, Egypt by British archeologist Howard Carter.
November 8, 1895 – X-rays are discovered by William Roentgen at the University of Würzburg in Germany.
November 9, 1965 – At 5:16 PM, the Great Blackout of the Northeast began due to a circuit breaker malfunction at a power plant on the Niagara River. The blackout affects more than 30-million people living along the East Coast and Canada.