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2012 Event - Italian voters select center-left candidate Pier Luigi Bersani as their new Prime Minister

2012 Event - The President of Germany's Social Democratic Party, Sigmar Gabriel recommends Peer Steinbruck as the party's Chancellor candidate for the 2012 German federal election

2012 Event - Former U.S. Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty resigns from Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, planning instead to work for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney states the Palestinians are committed to destroying Israel

2012 Event - At the National Convention in Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Republican Party nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - The Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney names Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Congressman, as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the November 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - Former Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency, John Edwards, is cleared on one count of corruption, with a mistrial declared on the other five counts

2012 Event - Sybrand van Haersma Buma becomes the top candidate for 2012's Dutch general election after being elected as the new party leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August

2012 Event - The trial over illegal use of campaign funds by U.S. Presidential candidate John Edwards begins in North Carolina

2012 Event - In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood nominates chairman Khairat El-Shater as a candidate for the May 2012 presidential elections

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum wins the caucuses in the state of Louisiana

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins caucuses in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wyoming

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the caucus in Washington state

2012 Event - In the Finnish Presidential election, conservative candidate Sauli Niinisto wins in a landslide

2012 Event - 2012 Republican Party Presidential primary candidate Jon Huntsman drops out of the race, endorsing Mitt Romney

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the 2012 Iowa Caucus by 8 votes over Rick Santorum

2011 Event - 2012 Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty withdraws from his campaign to win the Republican Party nomination

2011 Event - Former North Carolina Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate John Edwards is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws

2010 Event - Alaska's State Senator Lisa Murkowski becomes the first write-in candidate to successfully win an election since 1954

2010 Event - Despite considerable opposition, Christine O'Donnell is elected as the Republican Party candidate for Delaware

2004 Event - The Republican party nominates George W. Bush as its presidential candidate

2004 Event - Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate

2002 Death - John Frankenheimer, director, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 72

2001 Death - Harold Stassen, perennial presidential candidate/politician, resigned as governor of Minnesota to enlist for WWII, dies at 93

2001 Death - Howard Koch, producer, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 84

1998 Death - Barry Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-R-Arizona 1953 - 1965, 1969 - 1987, Republican Presidential candidate 1964, dies at 89 from a stroke

1996 Death - Edmund S Muskie, vice President candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81

1994 Death - Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered

1994 Death - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44

1993 Death - Absolutely Nobody, David Powers, Washington lieutenant governor candidate, dies at 37

1993 Death - Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72

1993 Event - Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics

1992 Death - G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72

1992 Event - President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair

1990 Death - Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated

1989 Death - Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered

1988 Event - Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate

1984 Event - Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R)

1984 Event - Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party Vice Presidential candidate

1984 Death - Glen H Taylor, U.S. senator/Vice Presidential candidate (1948), dies at 80

1982 Death - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies

1981 Event - Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election

1972 Event - Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate

1971 Death - Thomas E Dewey, U.S. president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68

1970 Death - Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered

1967 Birthday - Liev Schreiber, born in San Francisco, California, actor, director, screenwriter, appeared in 'X-Men Origins', 'The Manchurian Candidate', 'Salt'

1965 Death - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to UN/president candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies

1964 Event - Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate

1960 Event - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate

1960 Event - U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate

1960 Event - U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate

1956 Event - Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate

1956 Birthday - Meg Whitman, born in Long Island, New York, formerly, CEO of eBay, billionaire, Republican, 2010 candidate for Governor of California

1955 Birthday - Mike Huckabee, born in Hope, Arkansas, politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas, Republican, candidate for President in 2008, host of 'Huckabee' television talk show

1954 Birthday - Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show

1953 Birthday - John Edwards, born in Seneca, South Carolina, politician, 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Presidential candidate, 2008, U.S. Senator from North Carolina

1952 Event - General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate

1952 Birthday - Nancy Lord, Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate 1992

1941 Birthday - Jesse Jackson, born in Greenville, South Carolina, clergyman/presidential candidate, D

1939 Birthday - Allen Garfield, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II

1938 Birthday - Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate 1992

1937 Birthday - Robert Redford, born in California, actor, Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby

1936 Birthday - Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru, writer, Aunt Julia, and President candidate

1935 Birthday - Peter Boyle, Philadelphia, actor, Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond

1935 Birthday - Geraldine Ferraro, born in Newburgh, New York, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, 1st female Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1984

1933 Birthday - Michael S Dukakis, Gov-D-Mass, 1988 President Candidate

1933 Birthday - Michael S Dukakis, Gov-D-Mass, presidential candidate, D-1988

1933 Event - German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested

1930 Birthday - H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate 1992

1929 Birthday - Thomas Eagleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Senator-D-Missouri 1968 - 1986 and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1972

1927 Birthday - Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/president candidate, Smothers Bros Show

1924 Birthday - Shirley Chisholm, D-Rep-NY, 1st black congresswoman/president candidate

1923 Birthday - Robert J Dole, Sen-R Kansas, 1969 - 1995, presidential candidate, R-1996

1922 Birthday - Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate, 1980

1922 Birthday - George McGovern, born in Avon, South Dakota, Representative-D-South Dakota 1957 - 1961, Senator-D-South Dakota 1963 - 1981, Democratic President candidate 1972

1921 Birthday - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop, Florence, Papal candidate

1919 Birthday - George C Wallace, Clio Ala, gov-D-Ala, President candidate

1916 Birthday - Eugene J. McCarthy, born in Watkins, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota, President candidate 1968

1915 Birthday - Sargent Shriver, Maryland, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, 1972, directed Peace Corp

1909 Birthday - Barry Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-R-Arizona 1953 - 1965, 1969 - 1987, Republican Presidential candidate 1964

1907 Birthday - Harold Stassen, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Governor, Republican perennial President candidate

1906 Birthday - Curtis E Le May, air force general/Vice Presidential candidate

1902 Birthday - Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator-R, ambassador, Vice President candidate 1960

1900 Birthday - Adlai E Stevenson, Gov-D-Ill, President candidate, D, 1952, 1956

1893 Death - Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74

1892 Birthday - Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate, R-1940, author, One World

1887 Birthday - Alfred M Landon, R-Ks, President candidate, 1932, 1936

1886 Birthday - Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate

1884 Birthday - Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48

1881 Birthday - William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32

1876 Event - Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate

1876 Event - Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate

1869 Event - Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr. J H Harris, defeated

1855 Birthday - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate

1855 Birthday - Robert Marion La Follette, born in Wisconsin, President candidate, Progressive

1844 Event - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate

1843 Event - Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate

1786 Birthday - Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate

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