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
\n1913\u20131960, French writer, born in Algiers.<\/p>\n
Andrew Dickson White
\neducator and diplomat (1832)<\/p>\n
Madame Marie Curie
\nphysicist and chemist (1867)<\/p>\n
Lise Meitner
\nphysicist and mathematician (1878)<\/p>\n
Leon Trotsky
\nCommunist revolutionary (1879)<\/p>\n
Konrad Lorenz
\nzoologist and ethologist (1903)<\/p>\n
Billy Graham
\nevangelist (1918)<\/p>\n
Joan Sutherland
\nsoprano (1926)<\/p>\n
Joni Mitchell
\nsongwriter, singer (1943)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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