1872: Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S. Grant; which is ironic because $100 was the going rate for buying a man's vote that election.
1912: Woodrow Wilson beats ex-president Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent president William Howard Taft.
1935: Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly; Standard Oil sues for copyright infringement.
1940: FDR wins an unprecedented third term as president, beating Wendell Willkie.
1946: John F. Kennedy is elected to House of Representatives
1968: Richard Nixon beats sitting vice president Hubert Humphrey and independent candidate George Wallace for the Presidency.
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