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Elects
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 pres
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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