1874
\nThe Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly magazine.<\/p>\n
1916
\nJeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.<\/p>\n
1917
\nVladimir Lenin’s forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky’s government in Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution.<\/p>\n
1944
\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.<\/p>\n
1962
\nFormer first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.<\/p>\n
1967
\nCarl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.<\/p>\n
1989
\nL. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. He became the nation’s first elected black governor.<\/p>\n
2000
\nThe U.S. went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome wouldn’t be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.<\/p>\n
Albert Camus<\/p>\n
1913\u20131960, French writer, born in Algiers.<\/p>\n
Andrew Dickson White<\/p>\n
educator and diplomat (1832)<\/p>\n
Madame Marie Curie<\/p>\n
physicist and chemist (1867)<\/p>\n
Lise Meitner<\/p>\n
physicist and mathematician (1878)<\/p>\n
Leon Trotsky<\/p>\n
Communist revolutionary (1879)<\/p>\n
Konrad Lorenz<\/p>\n
zoologist and ethologist (1903)<\/p>\n
Billy Graham<\/p>\n
evangelist (1918)<\/p>\n
Joan Sutherland<\/p>\n
soprano (1926)<\/p>\n
Joni Mitchell<\/p>\n
songwriter, singer (1943)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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