1944
FDR goes 4 for 4
President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
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1874
The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
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1916
Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
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1917
Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
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1962
Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
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1967
Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
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1989
L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. He became the nation's first elected black governor.
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2000
The 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.
