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1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader

1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau

1977 Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century

1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor

1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association

1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member

1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president with 99.9 percent of the vote

1958 Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950

1950 Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1949 Paul Nurse, dr/director-general elect, Imperial Cancer Research Fund

1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer

1861 Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief

1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy

1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor

1726 Maximilian II M Emanuel, elect of Bavaria/governor of Netherlands, dies

1662 Maximilian II Emanuel, elect of Bayern

1661 Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elect, Anti-Lucretius

1647 Johan Georg III, elect of Saxon, 1680-91

1613 Johan Georg II, elect of Saxon, 1656-80

1612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies

1515 Frederick III, the Pious, elect of the Palts

1455 Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg, 1486-99


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