2007 Nancy Pelosi is elected Speaker of the House, by a vote of 233-202
2006 Ban Ki-moon is elected to be U.N. Secretary-General
2006 Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea
2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President
2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected the governor of California
2000 Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate
1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1997 Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K.
1996 Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1994 Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
1994 Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
1994 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi
1994 Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau
1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
1994 Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994 Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
1994 Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
1994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1994 Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica
1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland
1994 Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1993 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1993 Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela
1993 Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
1993 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
1993 Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of New York City
1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993 New York Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1993 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala
1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi
1993 Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1993 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
1992 Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate
1992 Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador
1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy
1992 John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
1992 Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner
1992 Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1991 Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner
1991 Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan
1991 Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
1991 Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991 New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame
1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1991 Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1991 Bill Veeck and Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
1991 Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
1991 Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
1990 Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1990 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1990 No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
1990 1st elected U.S. black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
1989 Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay
1989 Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
1989 David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City
1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (Virginia)
1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (D-Va)
1989 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1989 Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey
1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1989 Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1989 Red Schoendienst and Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame
1989 Celtic Kansas City Jones and Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1988 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka
1988 Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico
1988 Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish
1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988 Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%)
1988 Francois Mitterrand elected president of France
1988 Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California
1988 Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti
1988 Willie Stargell (Pitts Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1987 Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe
1987 Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea
1987 Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women
1987 Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines
1987 Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1986 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California
1986 Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
1986 Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
1986 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
1985 Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
1985 Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1984 U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president
1984 Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1984 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
1983 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1983 U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1983 Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago
1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
1983 Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame
1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
1982 Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador
1982 Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
1982 Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
1982 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
1982 Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland
1982 Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament
1982 Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1981 Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1981 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
1981 Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
1980 Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea
1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru
1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors
1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
1979 Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II
1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1978 Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy
1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
1978 Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1978 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
1977 Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
1977 Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1977 Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame
1976 Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
1976 Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International
1976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
1976 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs)
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
1975 Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1974 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov
1974 Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C.
1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day
1974 Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, and Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
1974 New York Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
1973 Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1973 Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
1973 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected
1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California
1973 Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death
1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1973 Mickey Welch, George Kelly and Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
1973 Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1972 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1972 Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1971 & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
1971 Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is
1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
1970 Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1970 Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
1969 Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany
1969 Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam
1969 Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons
1969 Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany
1969 Roy Campanella and Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1968 Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela
1968 Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey
1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1968 Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1968 Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1967 Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana
1967 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution
1967 Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India
1967 Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua
1967 Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
1966 Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
1966 Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party
1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister
1965 William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament
1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1964 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1964 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
1964 Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1963 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville
1963 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
1963 Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina
1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1963 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of United Nations unanimously
1962 Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World
1962 Edward M. Kennedy 1st elected Senator
1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1962 Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame, elected 1986
1962 Antonio Segni elected president of Italy
1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1961 Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
1961 James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor
1960 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1960 Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot
1959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
1959 Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World
1959 Heinrich Lubke elected President of West-Germany
1959 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland
1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR
1959 Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1958 Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico
1958 Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
1958 Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina
1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
1957 Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin
1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
1957 Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria
1957 NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
1956 Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1956 Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame
1955 G. Gronchi elected president of Italy
1954 Charles C. Diggs, Jr. elected Michigan's 1st black congressman
1954 J. S. Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1954 Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam
1953 Rene Coty elected President of France
1953 Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor
1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council
1953 Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary
1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel
1952 Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela
1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
1952 General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile
1952 Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
1951 Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala
1950 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France
1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR
1949 Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria
1949 Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
1948 Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea
1948 Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel
1948 Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
1947 Vincent Aurial elected president of France
1946 Leon Blum elected French premier
1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1946 John F. Kennedy elected to House of Representatives
1946 Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1946 Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam
1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres
1942 William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1940 Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of House
1939 Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1939 Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame
1939 Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert
1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school
1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president
1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank
1937 Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1936 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua
1936 Manuel Azana elected president of Spain
1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson
1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants
1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
1934 Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters)
1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time
1932 Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
1932 Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
1932 Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark)
1931 Paul Doumer elected president of France
1929 Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece
1929 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
1928 MW Miklas elected president of Austria
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
1928 Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua
1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
1926 Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
1925 Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany
1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming)
1924 Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico
1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
1924 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1922 Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
1922 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
1921 Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1920 Warren G. Harding elected president
1920 Warren Harding elected 29th president
1920 Alexander Millerand elected president of France
1920 Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia
1920 Paul Deschanel elected president of France
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
1918 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
1916 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected 1st woman Representative
1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
1914 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)
1913 Huerta elected president of Mexico
1913 Raymond Poincare elected president of France
1912 Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister
1911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China
1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
1908 Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73
1907 Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters
1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected New York Governor beats William Randolph Hearst
1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
1906 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962
1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1903 Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro, elected 1961
1899 Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet, Those not elected
1899 Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer, elected 1961
1897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1895 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
1895 G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer, elected 1958
1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960
1893 Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time
1892 Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas)
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected"
1883 George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee, elected 1961
1881 Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player, elected 1963
1880 James A. Garfield (R) elected president
1880 Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to U.S. Congress, Rep-Montana
1879 James Shields (D) elected U.S. senator from Missouri after previously serving as U.S. senator from Illinois and Minnesota
1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
1875 Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962
1874 Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature
1873 P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
1872 Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1870 Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis
1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress
1868 Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle
1868 Oscar J. Dunn, is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president
1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres
1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
1861 Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and VP of CSA
1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres
1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
1858 Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature
1856 James Buchanan elected U.S. president
1852 Franklin Pierce elected as president of U.S.
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US
1844 James K Polk elected 11th president of US
1840 William H Harrison elected president of US
1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas
1836 Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas
1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
1820 James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president
1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1808 James Madison elected U.S. pres/George Clinton vice-pres
1802 Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1796 John Adams elected president
1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled"
1775 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1720 Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor
1700 Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI
1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
1676 Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI
1670 Pope Clemens X elected
1642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society
1631 John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts
1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
1621 Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
1619 Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
1613 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1566 Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1566 Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
1534 Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1522 Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
1519 King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V
1503 Pope Julius II elected
1494 Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia
1484 Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
1417 Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V
1406 Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1404 Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII
1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1362 Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V
1352 Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
1347 Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1305 Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V
1294 Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V
1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
1277 Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III
1276 John XXI elected Pope
1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
1261 Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
1247 Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
1243 Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV
1241 Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
1168 Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope
1159 Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1143 Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
1130 Pope Innocent II elected
1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1124 Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)
1119 Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
1118 Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
1105 Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1099 Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
1058 Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X
1057 Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
1046 Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected
1045 Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III
1000 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
973 Pope Benedictus VI elected
965 John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII
963 Leo VIII elected Pope
955 Alberich II, son of Octavianus elected pope
872 John VIII elected as Catholic Pope
816 Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III
752 Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
649 Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
638 Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected
615 Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV
514 St. Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
476 Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
468 St. Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius
385 Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
336 Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope
259 Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II
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