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2000
Election Day in the US ends with the winner between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore still undecided.
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Hilary Rodham Clinton becomes the first First Lady (1993–2001) elected to public office in the US when she wins a US Senate seat.
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1994
The world’s first internet radio broadcast originates from WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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1990
Mary Robinson becomes the first woman elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
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1989
Douglas Wilder wins Virginia’s gubernatorial election, becoming the first elected African American governor in the US; during Reconstruction Mississippi had an acting governor and Louisiana had an appointed governor who were black.
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1983
A bomb explodes in the US Capitol’s Senate Chambers area, causing $250,000 damages but no one is harmed; a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed the bomb was retaliation for US military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.
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1975
A uprising in Bangladesh kills Brig. Gen. Khaled Mosharraf and frees Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman, future president of the country, from house arrest.
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1973
Congress overrides Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution that limited presidential power to wage ware without congressional approval.
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1972
President Richard Nixon is re-elected.
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1971
Robin Finck, musician; guitarist with bands Guns N’ Roses and Nine Inch Nails.
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1967
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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In Cleveland, Ohio, Carl B. Stokes becomes the first African American elected mayor of a major American city.
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1956
UN General Assembly calls for France, Israel and the UK to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
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1950
Alexa Canady, first female African-American neurosurgeon.
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1944
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term by defeating Thomas Dewey.