2015 Event Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian president who was the first to be democratically elected, has been given a death sentence for his role in a prison outbreak during the revolution of 2011 2015 Event Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party, is elected as Prime Minister of Greece on an anti-austerity platform 2014 Event Separatists in Eastern Ukraine hold elections in Donetsk and Luhansk; Russia will recognize the elected leaders, but Ukraine and Western nations declare the elections illegitimate 2014 Event Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been elected to her second term, winning with 51.6% of the vote over Aecio Neves 2014 Event Rob Manfred has been elected as the new commissioner of Major League Baseball; Manfred will take the position after current commissioner Bud Selig retires early next year 2014 Event Pope Francis canonizes John XXIII and John Paul II; this is the first time that the Catholic Church has elected two former popes to sainthood in the same ceremony 2014 Event Slovakia sets a new precedent by electing Andrej Kiska, a millionaire, as president; Mr. Kiska is the first president without ties to the Communist party to be elected since 1993, when the country was formed out of the breakup of Czechoslovakia 2013 Event After being elected to the UN Security Council, Saudi Arabia reports it will decline its seat because the UN failed to end the Ghouta chemical attack 2013 Event In New Zealand, David Cunliffe is elected leader of the Labour Party 2013 Event For the first time since 1996, no candidates were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame 2012 Event The governing Worker's Party takes control of Brazil's financial capital and largest city when Fernando Haddad is elected mayor of Sao Paulo 2012 Event The Libyan parliament passes a vote of no confidence for Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Prime Minister of Libya; Abdurrahim El-Keib again takes over the post 2012 Event In Egypt, protesters throw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State's motorcade during her first visit to the country since President Mohamed Mursi was elected 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 In the second round of the French presidential election Francois Hollande is elected President of France 2012 Event After three years without an elected head of state, Nicolae Timofti is named President of Moldova 2011 Event Jordan's Ali bin Al Hussein is elected as Vice President of FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football 2010 Event Naheed Nenshi, the first Muslim in Canada's history is elected mayor of Calgary in Alberta, Canada 2010 Event Despite considerable opposition, Christine O'Donnell is elected as the Republican Party candidate for Delaware 2008 Event Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States 2008 Event Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President of the United States 2008 Event Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected 2007 Event Nancy Pelosi is elected Speaker of the House, by a vote of 233-202 2006 Event Ban Ki-moon is elected to be U.N. Secretary-General 2006 Event Han Myung-sook elected Prime Minister of South Korea 2005 Event Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President 2003 Event Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected the governor of California 2000 Event Hilary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate 1997 Event Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 1997 Event Toni Blair elected Prime Minister of U.K. 1996 Event Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame 1996 Event For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1995 Event Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1994 Event Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay 1994 Event Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) 1994 Event Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil 1994 Event Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi 1994 Event Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau 1994 Event Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan 1994 Event Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia 1994 Event Roman Herzog elected president of Germany 1994 Event Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic 1994 Event Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama 1994 Event Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan 1994 Event Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1994 Event Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica 1994 Event Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland 1994 Event Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1993 Event Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 1993 Event Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela 1993 Event Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president 1993 Event Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey 1993 Event Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem 1993 Event Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of New York City 1993 Event Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president 1993 Event Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia 1993 Event New York Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame 1993 Event Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala 1993 Event Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi 1993 Event Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey 1993 Event Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel 1993 Event Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame 1992 Event Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in U.S. Senate 1992 Event Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador 1992 Event Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy 1992 Event John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England 1992 Event Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner 1992 Event Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1991 Event Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner 1991 Event Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan 1991 Event Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan 1991 Event Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York 1991 Event Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep 1991 Event New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame 1991 Event Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR 1991 Event Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation 1991 Event Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame 1991 Event Bill Veeck and Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1991 Event Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president 1991 Event Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame 1991 Event Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame 1991 Event Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame 1991 Event Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try 1991 Event Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala 1990 Event Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president 1990 Event Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti 1990 Event Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland 1990 Event Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic 1990 Event 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss 1990 Event Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada 1990 Event No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years 1990 Event 1st elected U.S. black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia) 1990 Event Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1989 Event Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia 1989 Event Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay 1989 Event Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon 1989 Death Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon 1989 Event David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City 1989 Event Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (Virginia) 1989 Event Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (D-Va) 1989 Event Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon 1989 Event Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey 1989 Event Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner 1989 Event Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland 1989 Event Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game 1989 Event Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union 1989 Event Red Schoendienst and Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame 1989 Event Celtic Kansas City Jones and Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame 1989 Event Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive 1989 Event Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1988 Event Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka 1988 Event Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico 1988 Event Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop 1988 Event NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish 1988 Event Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico 1988 Event Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%) 1988 Event Francois Mitterrand elected president of France 1988 Event Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California 1988 Event Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti 1988 Event Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1987 Event Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe 1987 Event Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea 1987 Event Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame 1987 Event Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women 1987 Event Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines 1987 Event Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1986 Event Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique 1986 Event Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years 1986 Event Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria 1986 Event Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia 1986 Event Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown 1986 Event Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California 1986 Event Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame 1986 Event Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president 1986 Event Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica 1986 Event Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 1986 Event Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year 1985 Event Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece 1985 Event Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1985 Event Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1985 Event Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years 1985 Event Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1984 Event U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president 1984 Event Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1984 Event Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) 1984 Event Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame 1983 Event Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky 1983 Event W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia 1983 Event U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president 1983 Event Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago 1983 Event Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 1983 Event Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame 1983 Event Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame 1982 Event Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki 1982 Event Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of West Germany 1982 Event Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president 1982 Event Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico 1982 Event Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador 1982 Event Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame 1982 Event Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta 1982 Event Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica 1982 Event Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland 1982 Event Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament 1982 Event Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame 1981 Event Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia 1981 Event Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia 1981 Event Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader 1981 Event Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1981 Event Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran 1981 Event Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran 1981 Event Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament 1981 Event Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1981 Event L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain 1981 Event Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway 1981 Event Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin 1981 Event Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1981 Event Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal 1980 Event Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea 1980 Event Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru 1980 Event FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors 1980 Event Bani Sadr elected president of Iran 1979 Event Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham 1979 Event Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 Event Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1978 Event Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II 1978 Event Aristides Royo elected president of Panama 1978 Event Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy 1978 Event Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel 1978 Event Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1978 Event Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame 1977 Event Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans 1977 Event Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond 1977 Event Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame 1977 Event Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1977 Event Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame 1976 Event Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq 1976 Event Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International 1976 Event Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ 1976 Event Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president 1976 Event Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame 1975 Event Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs) 1975 Event Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party 1975 Event Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame 1975 Event Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame 1974 Event Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman U.S. Governor not related to previous gov 1974 Event Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C. 1974 Event Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day 1974 Event Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, and Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame 1974 Event New York Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame 1973 Event Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit 1973 Event Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta 1973 Event Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1973 Event Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected 1973 Event Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California 1973 Event Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death 1973 Event Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1973 Event Mickey Welch, George Kelly and Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame 1973 Event Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1972 Event Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1972 Event Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame 1972 Event Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame 1971 Event Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president 1971 Event Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1971 Event & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1971 Event Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate 1971 Event Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is 1970 Event Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 1970 Event Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser 1970 Event Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt 1970 Event Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey 1970 Event Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame 1969 Event Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany 1969 Event Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam 1969 Event Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote 1969 Event Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons 1969 Event Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany 1969 Event Roy Campanella and Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1968 Event Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela 1968 Event Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey 1968 Event Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon 1968 Event Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal 1968 Event Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference 1968 Event General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia 1968 Event Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1968 Event Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1967 Event Robert McNamara elected president of World bank 1967 Event Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio 1967 Event Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana 1967 Event Edward Brooke, born in Washington, D.C, Senator-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, first African American to be elected to the Senate 1967 Event Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C. 1967 Event Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution 1967 Event Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India 1967 Event Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua 1967 Event Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1966 Event Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor 1966 Event Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, becomes 1st African American elected to Senate 1966 Event Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California 1966 Event Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president 1966 Event Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 1966 Event Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic 1966 Event Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party 1966 Event Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 1966 Event Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1965 Event William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball 1965 Event Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines 1965 Event Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament 1965 Birthday Yahya Jammeh, born in Kanilai, Gambia, politician, President of Gambia, controlled the country as a result of a bloodless military coup, elected September 1996 1965 Event Franz Jonas elected president of Austria 1965 Event Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president 1965 Event Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1964 Event Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 1964 Event Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon 1964 Event Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India 1964 Event 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling) 1964 Event Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1963 Event Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville 1963 Event Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria 1963 Event Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina 1963 Event Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church 1963 Event Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya 1963 Event Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame 1963 Event Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1962 Event U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of United Nations unanimously 1962 Event Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World 1962 Event Edward M. Kennedy 1st elected Senator 1962 Event Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts 1962 Birthday Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame, elected 1986 1962 Event Antonio Segni elected president of Italy 1962 Event Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1962 Event Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1961 Death Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies 1961 Event James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters 1961 Event Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor 1960 Event Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil 1960 Event U Nu elected premier of Burma 1960 Event Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1960 Event Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot 1959 Event Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus 1959 Event Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World 1959 Event Heinrich Lubke elected President of West-Germany 1959 Event Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland 1959 Event Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR 1959 Event Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1958 Event Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela 1958 Event Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII 1958 Event Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico 1958 Event Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France 1958 Event Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina 1958 Event General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala 1957 Event Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Event Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria 1957 Event NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president 1956 Event Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister 1956 Event Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt 1956 Event Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame 1955 Event G. Gronchi elected president of Italy 1954 Event Charles C. Diggs, Jr. elected Michigan's 1st black congressman 1954 Event J. S. Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) 1954 Event General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 Event CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala 1954 Event Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam 1953 Event Rene Coty elected President of France 1953 Event Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor 1953 Birthday Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) 1953 Event Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council 1953 Event Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary 1952 Event Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Event Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Event Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel 1952 Event Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela 1952 Event Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D) 1952 Event Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico 1952 Event General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile 1952 Event Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1951 Event NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball 1951 Event Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council 1951 Event Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1950 Event Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala 1950 Event Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey 1950 Event General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1950 Event Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland 1949 Event Georges Bidault elected president of France 1949 Event Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany 1949 Event Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria 1949 Event Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel 1948 Event Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 1948 Event Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea 1948 Event Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel 1948 Event Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy 1948 Event Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1947 Event Vincent Aurial elected president of France 1946 Event Leon Blum elected French premier 1946 Event Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria 1946 Event John F. Kennedy elected to House of Representatives 1946 Event Georges Bidault elected premier of France 1946 Event Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam 1946 Event Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1945 Death Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73 1945 Event No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame 1944 Event Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East 1943 Event WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters 1943 Event Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president 1943 Birthday John Montagu, born in England, 11th Earl of Sandwich, elected as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords, related to 4th Earl who popularized the sandwich 1942 Event William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago 1940 Event Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of House 1940 Birthday Mary Rose Oakar, born in Cleveland, Ohio, politician, first Democratic woman elected to U.S. Congress, member, U.S. House of Representatives 1939 Event Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1939 Event Albert Lebrun elected president of France 1939 Event Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame 1939 Event Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert 1939 Event Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school 1938 Event Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president 1938 Event Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame 1938 Event Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank 1937 Event Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1936 Event Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua 1936 Event Manuel Azana elected president of Spain 1936 Event 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 1936 Event Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants 1936 Event L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America 1934 Event Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) 1934 Event General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico 1932 Event Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time 1932 Event Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag) 1932 Death Samuel Rutherford, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms, dies of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. 1932 Event Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) 1931 Event Paul Doumer elected president of France 1929 Event Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece 1929 Event Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico 1928 Event MW Miklas elected president of Austria 1928 Event Herbert Hoover (R) elected president 1928 Event Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua 1927 Event Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president 1926 Event Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland 1926 Event Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president 1926 Event Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 1924 Event Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) 1924 Event Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming) 1924 Event General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico 1924 Event Walter Johnson elected AL MVP 1924 Birthday Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983 1924 Event Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier 1924 Event Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC 1924 Event Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) 1922 Event Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president 1922 Event Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI 1921 Event 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected 1921 Event Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda 1921 Event Hadjememaar, Corn de Gelder, elected in Amsterdam 1920 Event Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner 1920 Event Warren G. Harding elected president 1920 Event Warren Harding elected 29th president 1920 Event Alexander Millerand elected president of France 1920 Event Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia 1920 Event Paul Deschanel elected president of France 1919 Event US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament 1919 Birthday Ella Grasso, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, politician, Democratic Party, first woman elected Governor of Connecticut, served 1975 - 1980 1919 Event Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1918 Event SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament 1916 Event Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, elected 1st woman Representative 1915 Event 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho 1914 Event 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK) 1913 Event Huerta elected president of Mexico 1913 Event Raymond Poincare elected president of France 1912 Birthday Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister 1911 Event Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China 1911 Event Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal 1908 Event William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan 1908 Birthday Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73 1907 Event Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters 1906 Event Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected New York Governor beats William Randolph Hearst 1906 Event Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers 1906 Birthday John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962 1903 Event Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X 1903 Event Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X 1903 Birthday Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro, elected 1961 1899 Birthday Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet, Those not elected 1899 Birthday Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer, elected 1961 1897 Birthday Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965 1896 Event Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator 1895 Event George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina 1895 Birthday G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer, elected 1958 1893 Birthday Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960 1893 Event Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time 1892 Event Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag 1892 Event Grover Cleveland (D) elected president 1888 Event Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber 1887 Event Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas) 1886 Event American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president 1886 Event M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC 1884 Event John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention 1884 Event William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected" 1883 Birthday George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee, elected 1961 1881 Birthday Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player, elected 1963 1880 Event James A. Garfield (R) elected president 1880 Birthday Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to U.S. Congress, Rep-Montana 1879 Event James Shields (D) elected U.S. senator from Missouri after previously serving as U.S. senator from Illinois and Minnesota 1878 Birthday Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate 1875 Birthday Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962 1874 Event Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York 1874 Event James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti 1874 Event I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature 1873 Event P B S Pinchback elected to Senate 1872 Event Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina 1871 Birthday Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931 1870 Event Democratic governor elected in Tennessee 1870 Event 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps 1870 Birthday Samuel Rutherford, born in Culloden, Georgia, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms 1870 Event Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis 1868 Event 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana) 1868 Event John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress 1868 Birthday Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle 1868 Event Oscar J. Dunn, is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana 1864 Event Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president 1861 Event Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president 1861 Event Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia 1861 Event Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America 1860 Event Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, elected 16th president 1861 - 1865 1858 Event Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament 1858 Birthday Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature 1856 Event James Buchanan elected U.S. president 1852 Event Franklin Pierce elected as president of U.S. 1849 Event Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California 1848 Event General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US 1844 Event James K Polk elected 11th president of US 1840 Event William H Harrison elected president of US 1839 Event Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society 1836 Event Martin Van Buren elected 8th president 1836 Event Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas 1836 Event Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas 1828 Event Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US 1826 Death Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist, dies 1820 Event James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president 1816 Event James Monroe (VA), elected 5th president, defeating Federalist Rufus King 1808 Event James Madison elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president 1802 Event Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1796 Event John Adams elected president 1781 Event John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled" 1775 Event Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) 1765 Birthday Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist 1752 Event Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later 1723 Event Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht 1720 Event Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor 1700 Event Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI 1696 Event John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 1691 Event Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII 1676 Event Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI 1670 Event Pope Clemens X elected 1631 Event John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts 1623 Event Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII 1621 Event Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623) 1619 Event Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor 1613 Event Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar 1608 Event John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1605 Event Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V 1592 Event Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII 1591 Event Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX 1590 Event Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII 1566 Event Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V 1566 Event Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V 1555 Event Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV 1555 Event Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II 1550 Event Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III 1534 Event Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III 1522 Event Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope 1522 Event Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) 1519 Event King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V 1503 Event Pope Julius II elected 1494 Event Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia 1484 Event Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII 1464 Event Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II) 1456 Event Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege 1455 Event Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III 1431 Event Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV 1417 Event Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V 1406 Event Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII 1404 Event Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII 1378 Event Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI 1362 Event Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V 1352 Event Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI 1347 Event Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV 1338 Event Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent 1305 Event Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V 1294 Event Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V 1288 Event Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV 1281 Event Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV 1277 Event Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III 1276 Event John XXI elected Pope 1276 Event Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V 1261 Event Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV 1247 Event Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor 1243 Event Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV 1241 Event Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241) 1227 Event Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX 1198 Event Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III 1168 Event Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope 1159 Event Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope 1152 Event Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king 1145 Event Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III 1144 Event Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II 1143 Event Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II 1130 Event Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II 1130 Event Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II 1130 Event Pope Innocent II elected 1125 Event Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany 1124 Event Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses) 1119 Event Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II 1118 Event Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II 1105 Event Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I 1099 Event Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II 1058 Event Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X 1046 Event Pope Clement II, Suitger, elected 1045 Event Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III 1000 Event Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III 999 Event Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope 973 Event Pope Benedictus VI elected 965 Event John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII 963 Event Leo VIII elected Pope 955 Event Alberich II, son of Octavianus elected pope 872 Event John VIII elected as Catholic Pope 816 Event Pope Stephen IV, V, elected to succeed Leo III 752 Event Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd) 654 Event Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I 649 Event Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I 640 Event Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638) 638 Event Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected 615 Event Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV 514 Event St. Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus 476 Event Odoacer elected King of Byzantine 468 Event St. Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius 385 Event Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona 336 Event Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope 259 Event Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II
