1872
A fine mess for Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).
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1605
The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament failed.
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1895
George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
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1940
President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Wendell L. Willkie.
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1968
The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
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1974
Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
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1989
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz died in New York at age 85.
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1994
At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
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2011
Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.
