Today in history
Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:30pm • www.rarecoincollector.net On Nov. 7, 1867, physicist and two-time Nobel winner Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw.
In 1874, the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.
In 1893 the state of Colorado women the right to vote.
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In 1916 Republican Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, became the first woman elected to Congress.
In 1917 Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
In 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas Dewey.
In 1962 former Vice President Richard Nixon, embittered by his loss in California’s gubernatorial race, told reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” Also in 1962 former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York; she was 78.
In 1967 Carl Stokes, of Cleveland, was elected the first black mayor of a major city. Also in 1967 President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill establishing for Public Broadcasting. the Corporation
In 1972 President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
In 1987 Judge Douglas Ginsburg asked President Ronald Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing the clamor that arose over Ginsburg’s admission that he had smoked marijuana.
In 1989 Virginia’s L. Douglas Wilder became the nation’s first African-American elected governor; David Dinkins was elected New York’s first African-American mayor.
In 1998 John Glenn, the 77-year-old senator and former astronaut, returned to Earth with his crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery, visibly weak but elated after a nine-day mission.
In 2000 Americans went to the polls for an election that would result in indecision for George W. Bush and Al Gore, with Florida’s disputed electoral votes emerging as critical. Also in 2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.