Today:
1528 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on Galveston Island, Texas, becoming one of the first Europeans to set foot in Texas.
1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is elected as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 – The Bolshevik Revolution begins in Russia with an assault on the Winter Palace, marking the start of Soviet control.
1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility in Washington, part of the Manhattan Project.
1962 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts Resolution 1761, condemning apartheid in South Africa and initiating sanctions.
1999 – Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in a referendum, rejecting a proposal to establish a republic.
2012 – Barack Obama is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Congratulations President Trump!
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