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1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild

1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year

1986 Congress selects the rose as U.S. national flower

1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek

1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle

1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time

1966 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

1964 Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman

1964 Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate

1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate

1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's

1954 Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers

1954 Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala

1946 Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China

1938 Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier

1923 Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president

1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president

1922 British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader

1876 President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)

1870 Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I

1860 Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate

1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium

1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as king

1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king

1653 German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria

1575 Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland

1573 Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king

1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland

1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir

1409 Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V

1328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V

1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)



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