1872 – American women’s right to vote advocate Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant.
1895 – 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car.
1900 – Under US military control since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention.
1912 – Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt.
1927 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Cedar Crest CC: Defending champion Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa 1-up to win 4th straight PGA title.
1935 – Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Wilkie.
1953 – Film “How to Marry a Millionaire” directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, first to be filmed in CinemaScope released.
1956 – The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American.
1964 – US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no date returned.
1967 – US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam.
1974 – Walter E. Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
1981 – Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 year for drug trafficking, conspiracy and possession of cocaine.
1987 – Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic.
1992 – “Revenge Match of the 20th century” American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky to win an unofficial match in Belgrade.
1996 – Bill Clinton is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Bob Dole.
2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
2017 – US President Donald Trump begins a 12-day trip to Asia in Toyko, Japan.
2017 – Gunman shoots 26 dead and injures 20 at a church in Sunderland Springs, Texas.
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