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1989: Douglas Wilder elected governor.On this day in 1989, Virginian Douglas Wilder became the first African American to win a U.S. gubernatorial election, and, after he left office when his term expired in 1994, he was elected mayor of Richmond in 2004.More events on this day1978:American illustrator Norman Rockwell, best known for his covers of The Saturday Evening Post, died. |
1960:John F. Kennedy was narrowly elected president of the United States. |
1956:Comet Arend-Roland was discovered. |
1932:During the Great Depression, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt easily defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover to win the presidency of the United States. |
1900:Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, was born in Atlanta, Georgia. |
1837:One of the first institutions of higher education for women in the United States, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) opened in Massachusetts. |
1656:English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley, the first to calculate the orbit of Halley's Comet, was born in Greenwich, Kent, England. |
1520:The Danish king Christian II began mass executions of Swedish nobles in what became known as the Stockholm Bloodbath. |
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