US General Election Day [first Tuesday after the first Monday of November]
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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1307 William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head
1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published
1805 Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Ocean
1874 The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine
1916 President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected in a race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined. Results are not known until November 11.
1940 The Tacoma Bridge in Washington State collapses
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term by defeating Thomas Dewey
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first First Lady (1993–2001) elected to public office in the US when she wins a US Senate seat
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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