2012 Event The Coptic Orthodox Church selects Bishop Tawadros as their new 118th pope 2011 Event The Academy of Country Music Awards 2010 selects Taylor Swift winner of the 2010 Entertainer of the Year award 1998 Event NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild 1998 Event Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever 1990 Event TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year 1986 Event Congress selects the rose as U.S. national flower 1981 Event Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek 1972 Event NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle 1970 Event NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time 1966 Event 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) 1964 Event Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman 1964 Event Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate 1960 Event Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate 1958 Event USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's 1954 Event Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers 1954 Event Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala 1946 Event Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China 1938 Event Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1924 Event Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier 1923 Event Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president 1922 Event Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president 1922 Event British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader 1876 Event President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R) 1870 Event Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I 1831 Event National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium 1697 Event Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as king 1669 Event Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king 1653 Event German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria 1575 Event Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland 1573 Event Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king 1541 Event Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland 1506 Event Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir 1409 Event Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V 1328 Event Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V 1124 Event Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
