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2006 Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan
2005 Bolivia elects leftist Evo Morales president 1989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president 1989 New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman) 1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor 1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) 1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president 1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial 1961 General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general 1961 U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N. 1953 Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito) 1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy 1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman 1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate 1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president |
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