TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Nov. 7, 1972

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

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1862

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaced replace Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.

1912

Black boxing champion Jack Johnson was indicted in Chicago for allegedly violating the Mann Act with a white woman, Belle Schreiber.

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.

1962

Richard M. Nixon, having lost California’s gubernatorial race, held what he called his “last press conference,” telling reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”

1991

Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV, and was retiring.