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2012 Event - Mikhail Korniyenko and Scott Kelly, veteran astronauts, are chosen to carry out the first year-long mission to the International Space Station in 2015

2002 Death - Chaim Potok, writer, The Chosen, dies at 73

1994 Event - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka

1994 Event - 1st phase of O. J. Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)

1991 Event - Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname

1991 Event - Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC

1990 Event - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics

1990 Event - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia

1989 Event - Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major U.S. party (Democrats)

1987 Event - Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America

1985 Event - Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters

1985 Event - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle

1982 Event - Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador

1979 Birthday - James Allen, born in Portland, Oregon, James Deshaune Allen, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League, attended Oregon State University, chosen 82nd overall in 2002 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints, now a free agent

1973 Event - Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year

1972 Event - Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee

1968 Event - "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City AL franchise

1964 Event - Manlio Brosio chosen as Secretary-General of NATO

1963 Event - Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen

1961 Event - Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party

1961 Event - Dirk U. Suffocated chosen as Secretary-General of NATO

1958 Event - Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia

1955 Birthday - Robby Benson, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, One on One, Running Brave, Chosen

1954 Event - Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP

1953 Event - Antonin Zapotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia

1953 Event - Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia

1952 Event - Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO

1952 Event - Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president

1951 Event - Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia

1939 Event - Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII

1935 Event - Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines

1934 Event - Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP

1933 Birthday - Ian Tyson, born in British Columbia, Canada, singer, songwriter, guitarist, song 'Four Strong Winds' chosen as greatest Canadian song of all time, in Canada's Country Music Hall of Fame

1932 Event - Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio

1931 Birthday - Virginia McKenna, actress, Born Free, Chosen, Lions are Free, Simba

1928 Event - Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101

1926 Birthday - Erico Menczer, Fiume, Italy, cinematographer, Chosen, Miranda

1912 Event - Mr. Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia

1898 Event - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital

1896 Death - Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81

1892 Event - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house

1884 Event - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair

1883 Event - Paul Kruger chosen president of Transvaal

1863 Event - Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswok-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece

1844 Event - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death

1837 Event - 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)

1832 Event - Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece

1793 Event - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public

1775 Event - Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI

1745 Event - Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus

1740 Event - Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV

1730 Event - Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII

1690 Event - Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king

1674 Event - General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland

1619 Event - Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia

1611 Event - Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia

1598 Event - Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia

1590 Event - Noccolo Sfondrato chosen Pope Gregory XIV

1563 Event - Maximilian chosen king of Hungary

1527 Event - Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary

1526 Event - Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia

1526 Event - John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary

1523 Event - Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII

1513 Event - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X

1458 Event - Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II

1458 Event - Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia

1458 Event - Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary

1448 Event - Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication

1394 Event - Cardinal Pedro de Luna of Aragon chosen (anti)pope Benedictus XIII

1371 Event - Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht

1349 Event - Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king

1307 Event - Duke Henrik van Karinthie chosen king of Bohemia

1298 Event - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king

1294 Event - Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII

1208 Event - Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king

1080 Event - Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III

1073 Event - Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII

1024 Event - Duke Koenraad II chosen German king

1024 Event - Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king

911 Event - Duke Koenraad I chosen German king

705 Event - Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI

656 Event - Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam

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