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2008 Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States

2008 Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President of the United States

2008 Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected

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 Prime Minister 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 Czechoslovakia

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 (Pittsburgh 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 president

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 Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki

1982 Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of West Germany

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 Reverend 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 Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister 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 Hall of Fame

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 Edward Brooke, born in Washington, D.C, Senator-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, first African American to be elected to the Senate

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

1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor

1966 Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, becomes 1st African American 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 Prime Minister 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 Benazir Bhutto, born in Pakistan, first woman elected prime minister, chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

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 president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany

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 Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73

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 president

1943 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 William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago

1940 Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of House

1940 Mary Rose Oakar, born in Cleveland, Ohio, politician, first Democratic woman elected to U.S. Congress, member, U.S. House of Representatives

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 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 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

1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)

1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st U.S. female Governor (Wyoming)

1924 General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico

1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP

1924 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 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 Ella Grasso, born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, politician, Democratic Party, first woman elected Governor of Connecticut, served 1975 - 1980

1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany

1918 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament

1916 Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, 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 South Carolina

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

1871 Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931

1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee

1870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps

1870 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 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 president

1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia

1861 Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America

1860 Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, elected 16th president 1861 - 1865

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

1826 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 James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president

1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th president, defeating Federalist Rufus King

1808 James Madison elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president

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)

1765 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 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

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

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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