TODAY IN HISTORY

Highlight in History:

1967

Carl Stokes was elected the first Black mayor of a major city -- Cleveland, Ohio. Also on this date

1811

U.S. forces led by Indiana Territory Gov. William Henry Harrison defeated warriors from Tecumseh’s Confederacy in the Battle of Tippecanoe.

1867

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie was born in Warsaw.

1917

Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

1972

President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

1973

Congress overrode President Richard Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive’s power to wage war without congressional approval.

1989

L. Douglas Wilder won the governor’s race in Virginia, becoming the first elected Black governor in U.S. history; David N. Dinkins was elected New York City’s first Black mayor.

2001

The Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden’s multi-million-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations.

2009

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed, 220-215, health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act.