Today In History

Tue., Nov. 7, 2000

In 1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.

1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

In 1940: The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington collapsed in a windstorm.

In 1944: President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.

In 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.”

In 1972: President Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

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