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On this day in history

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1665: The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1881: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, two participants in Tombstone, Arizona’s, famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, are jailed as the hearings on what happened in the fight grow near.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, but the race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined, so the results are not known until November 11.
1916: Jeannette Rankin (R-Montana) is elected the first congresswoman.
1917: The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, take power in Russia.
1921: Benito Mussolini declares himself to be the leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy.
1940: The Tacoma Bridge in Washington State collapses.
1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term by defeating Thomas Dewey.
1967: In Cleveland, Ohio, Carl B. Stokes becomes the first African-American elected mayor of a major American city.
1972: President Richard Nixon is re-elected.
1973: Congress overrides Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution that limited presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1994: The world’s first internet radio broadcast originates from WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first First Lady elected to public office in the U.S. when she wins a U.S. Senate seat.
2000: Election Day in the U.S. ends with the winner between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore still undecided.

 

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