On this date

In 1912,

Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day. (Sherman was replaced with Nicholas Murray Butler, but Taft ended up losing to Woodrow Wilson.)

In 1944,

the Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role.

In 1945,

the U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.

In 1961,

the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.

In 1975,

the New York Daily News ran the headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” a day after President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.

In 1979,

President Carter announced his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.

In 2002,

Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), a rapper with the hip-hop group Run-DMC, was killed in a shooting in New York. He was 37.

Ten years ago:

A federal jury in Miami convicted the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the first case brought under a 1994 U.S. law allowing prosecution for torture and atrocities committed overseas. (Charles McArthur Emmanuel was later sentenced to 97 years in prison.)

Five years ago:

The government said the deficit for the 2013 budget year totaled $680.3 billion, down from $1.09 trillion in 2012.

One year ago:

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a former Manafort associate, Rick Gates, were indicted on felony charges including conspiracy against the United States.