1960
Kennedy beats Nixon
John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States.
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1889
Montana became the 41st state.
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1892
Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House.
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1923
Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch.
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1966
Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.
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1994
After a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority.
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