1874 – 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast.
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) is elected to Congress as its first woman Representative.
1933 – Pennsylvania votes overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports.
1942 – First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey.
1954 – US spy plane shot down North of Japan.
1957 – Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie Year.
1962 – Richard Nixon tells press he won’t be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California.
1963 – New York Yankee Elston Howard is 1st African American ever voted AL MVP.
1967 – LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 – Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states.
1983 – Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries.
1990 – Cleveland Indian Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously.
1991 – Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers.
2000 – Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush’s favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court.
2007 – 41st Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley wins.
2013 – Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage.
2018 – US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Mathew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General.
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