TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, the 311th day of 2018. There are 54 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaced Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.
In 1874, the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.
In 1916, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress, winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
In 1940, Washington state’s original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to traffic.
In 1967, Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor of a major city — Cleveland.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern. In 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.
In 1980, actor Steve McQueen died in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, at age 50.
In 2001, the Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden’s multimillion-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., is 88. Actor Barry Newman is 80. Singer Johnny Rivers and former supermodel Jean Shrimpton are 76. Singersongwriter Joni Mitchell is 75. Jazz singer Rene Marie is 63. Actor Christopher Knight (TV: “The Brady Bunch”) is 61. Rock musician Tommy Thayer (KISS) is 58. Actress Julie Pinson is 51. Rock musician Greg Tribbett (Mudvayne) is 50. Actress Michelle Clunie is 49. Actors Christopher Daniel Barnes, and Jeremy and Jason London are 46. Actress Yunjin Kim is 45. Actor Adam DeVine and rock musician Zach Myers (Shinedown) are 35. Actor Lucas Neff is 33. Rapper Tinie Tempah is 30. Rock singer Lorde is 22.