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11/05/2010

Today in Yesteryear. . .

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.

Posted by Lairbo on 11/05/2010 at 12:06 AM in History, Today in Yesteryear... | Permalink

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