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| 1893 | Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote . |
| 1916 | Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. |
| 1929 | The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened. |
| 1944 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. |
| 1962 | Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
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| 1962 | Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died at age 78. |
| 1967 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
| 1972 | President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern. |
| 1973 | Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a president's power to wage war without congressional approval. |
| 1989 | L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the nation's first elected African-American governor. |
| 1991 | Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring. |
| 1998 | House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12. |
| 2000 | Republican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. The winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida. |
| 2000 | Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first first lady to win public office. |
| 2006 | Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress. |
