— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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259-07-22 |
St Dionysius elected as Pope, succeeding Sixtus II |
328-05-09 |
Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria. |
336-01-18 |
St Mark elected Catholic Pope |
385-02-11 |
Siricius, bishop of Tarragona, elected as Bishop of Rome; first to style himself Pope. |
392-08-22 |
Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. |
468-03-03 |
St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius |
514-07-20 |
St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus |
615-11-19 |
Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV |
638-10-12 |
Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected |
640-05-28 |
Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638) |
649-07-01 |
Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I |
654-08-10 |
Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I |
752-03-22 |
Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd) |
772-12-01 |
Pope Adrian I elected |
816-06-22 |
Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III |
872-12-14 |
John VIII elected as Catholic Pope |
955-05-16 |
Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope |
963-12-06 |
Leo VIII elected Pope |
965-10-01 |
John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII |
973-01-19 |
Pope Benedictus VI elected |
999-04-02 |
Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope |
1045-01-20 |
Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III |
1046-12-24 |
Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected |
1057-08-02 |
Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium Pope Stephen IX [X] |
1058-04-05 |
Bishop John "Minchio" [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X |
1088-03-12 |
Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, succeeding Victor III |
1099-07-22 |
First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem. |
1099-08-13 |
Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II |
1105-11-18 |
Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I |
1118-01-24 |
Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II |
1119-02-02 |
Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II |
1124-12-14 |
Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses) |
1125-08-30 |
Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany |
1130-02-12 |
Pope Innocent II elected |
1130-02-13 |
Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II |
1130-02-14 |
Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II |
1138-03-07 |
Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king |
1143-10-03 |
Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II |
1144-03-12 |
Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II |
1145-02-15 |
Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III |
1152-03-04 |
Frederick I Barbarossa elected Holy Roman Emperor |
1154-12-04 |
Adrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. |
1159-09-07 |
Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope |
1168-11-20 |
Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope |
1174-03-23 |
Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow. |
1187-10-21 |
Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII (12/17/1187) |
1198-01-08 |
Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III |
1227-03-19 |
Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX |
1241-10-25 |
Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241) |
1243-06-25 |
Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV |
1247-10-03 |
Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor |
1261-08-29 |
Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV |
1276-01-21 |
Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V |
1276-09-08 |
John XXI elected Pope |
1277-11-25 |
Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III |
1281-02-22 |
Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV |
1288-02-22 |
Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV |
1294-07-05 |
Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V |
1305-06-05 |
Archbishop Bertrand the Got of Bordeaux elected Pope Clement V |
1338-01-03 |
Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent |
1346-07-11 |
Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
1347-07-11 |
Heir to the Bohemian throne elected German anti-king Charles IV |
1352-12-18 |
Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI |
1362-09-28 |
Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V |
1378-04-08 |
Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI |
1404-10-17 |
Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII |
1406-11-30 |
Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII |
1417-11-11 |
Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V |
1431-03-03 |
Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV |
1455-04-08 |
Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III |
1456-03-30 |
Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege |
1464-08-30 |
Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II) |
1484-08-29 |
Giovanni Battista Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII |
1494-01-01 |
Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia |
1503-11-11 |
Pope Julius II elected |
1519-06-28 |
King Carlos I elected Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V |
1522-01-09 |
Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) |
1522-01-21 |
Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope |
1523-06-06 |
Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. |
1534-07-04 |
Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. |
1534-10-13 |
Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III |
1550-02-07 |
Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III |
1555-04-09 |
Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II |
1555-05-23 |
Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV |
1566-01-07 |
Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V |
1587-08-18 |
Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland, according to legend. |
1589-01-26 |
Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. |
1590-09-15 |
Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII |
1591-10-29 |
Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX |
1592-01-30 |
Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII |
1605-05-16 |
Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V |
1608-09-10 |
John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va |
1613-02-21 |
Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov |
1619-08-28 |
Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor |
1621-02-09 |
Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623) |
1621-02-17 |
Myles Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony |
1623-08-06 |
Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII |
1631-05-18 |
John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts |
1670-04-29 |
Pope Clemens X elected |
1676-09-21 |
Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI |
1691-07-12 |
Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII |
1696-05-31 |
John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius |
1700-11-23 |
Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI |
1720-09-12 |
Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor |
1723-04-23 |
Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht |
1752-03-23 |
Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later |
1773-11-05 |
John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting that resolves that anyone who supports the Tea Act is an "Enemy to America" |
1775-01-11 |
Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) |
1775-05-24 |
John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress |
1779-09-28 |
American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. |
1781-11-05 |
John Hanson elected first "President of US in Congress assembled" |
1787-02-02 |
Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. |
1792-12-05 |
George Washington re-elected as US president |
1796-11-03 |
John Adams elected president of the United States of America |
1802-01-25 |
Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic |
1804-12-05 |
Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President, George Clinton Vice President |
1808-12-07 |
James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President |
1810-08-21 |
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates. |
1812-05-11 |
British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. Ironically, descendants of both were later elected to Parliament at the same time. |
1812-12-02 |
James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres |
1816-12-04 |
James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King |
1820-11-07 |
James Monroe re-elected US president |
1822-01-15 |
Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly. |
1828-12-03 |
Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President |
1832-12-05 |
Andrew Jackson re-elected President of US |
1836-09-05 |
Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas |
1836-10-22 |
Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas |
1836-12-07 |
Martin Van Buren elected 8th president |
1839-01-24 |
Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society |
1840-12-02 |
William Henry Harrison elected the 9th President of the United States of America |
1844-12-04 |
James K. Polk elected 11th US President |
1847-12-05 |
Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post. |
1848-03-11 |
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. |
1848-11-07 |
General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US |
1849-11-13 |
Peter Burnett elected first governor of California |
1852-11-02 |
Franklin Pierce elected as president of US |
1856-11-04 |
James Buchanan elected 15th US president |
1858-07-26 |
Baron Lionel de Rothschild bcomes first Jewish person elected to British Parliament |
1859-01-24 |
Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler. |
1860-11-06 |
Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President |
1861-02-04 |
Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time; Jefferson Davis elected president of Confederacy (US Civil War) |
1861-02-09 |
Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the Confederate States of America (US Civil War) |
1861-06-19 |
Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia |
1861-11-06 |
Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president |
1864-11-08 |
Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President |
1868-06-13 |
Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana |
1868-10-30 |
John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress |
1868-11-03 |
First black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana) |
1870-01-20 |
Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis |
1870-07-02 |
Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium. |
1870-09-04 |
The Third French Republic proclaimed as French overthrow Emperor Napoleon III (who ironically was the elected president of the Second French Republic) after his defeat by Prussia at Sedan |
1870-10-19 |
1st African Americans (4) elected to US House of Representatives |
1870-11-08 |
Democratic governor elected in Tennessee |
1872-01-29 |
Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina |
1872-11-05 |
Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President |
1873-01-14 |
P B S Pinchback elected to Senate |
1874-01-14 |
I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature |
1874-06-29 |
Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year. |
1874-11-03 |
James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti |
1874-11-04 |
Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY |
1878-10-17 |
After serving as the opposition for five years, John A. Macdonald is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada |
1879-01-22 |
James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota |
1880-11-02 |
James A Garfield (R) elected 20th US President |
1884-06-05 |
William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected" |
1884-06-24 |
John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention |
1886-05-03 |
M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC |
1886-12-08 |
American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
1887-04-04 |
Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS) |
1888-03-25 |
Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber |
1892-07-06 |
Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
1892-11-08 |
Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President |
1892-12-05 |
Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag |
1893-04-22 |
Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time |
1895-09-05 |
George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC |
1896-11-03 |
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator |
1901-03-29 |
Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first election of its parliament |
1902-05-30 |
Spanish King Alfonso XII, who was elected as a constitutional monarch, suspends the Cortes, Spain's parliament |
1903-07-20 |
Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the 'pope of the poor and humble' |
1903-08-04 |
Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X |
1906-03-06 |
Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers |
1906-07-17 |
Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with George Clemenceau |
1906-11-06 |
Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst |
1907-01-25 |
Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters |
1908-05-27 |
Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. |
1908-11-03 |
William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan |
1911-08-24 |
Manuel d'Arriaga elected first president of Portugal |
1911-12-30 |
Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China |
1913-01-17 |
Raymond Poincaré elected president of France |
1913-10-26 |
Huerta elected president of Mexico |
1914-04-09 |
US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people |
1914-11-27 |
1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire) |
1915-01-04 |
1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho |
1916-11-07 |
Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its first woman Representative |
1916-11-07 |
Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected US President |
1918-07-03 |
SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament |
1919-02-11 |
Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany |
1919-11-28 |
US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British House of Commons |
1920-01-17 |
Paul Deschanel elected president of France |
1920-03-28 |
Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia |
1920-09-23 |
Alexander Millerand elected president of France |
1920-11-02 |
Warren G Harding elected 29th president |
1920-11-12 |
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner |
1921-04-27 |
Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam |
1921-05-01 |
Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda |
1921-05-24 |
1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected |
1921-10-04 |
Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume. |
1921-12-29 |
Mackenzie King elected and sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of Canada |
1922-02-06 |
Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI |
1922-12-09 |
Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president |
1924-02-03 |
Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) |
1924-06-11 |
Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC |
1924-06-13 |
Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier |
1924-09-14 |
Walter Johnson elected AL MVP |
1924-09-28 |
Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico |
1924-11-04 |
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming) |
1924-11-04 |
US President Calvin Coolidge re-elected |
1924-11-09 |
Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) |
1924-12-09 |
Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president |
1924-12-16 |
Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor |
1925-04-25 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany |
1926-03-09 |
Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle |
1926-04-04 |
Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president |
1926-06-01 |
Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland |
1926-09-25 |
Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada |
1927-05-27 |
Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president |
1928-11-04 |
Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua |
1928-12-05 |
MW Miklas elected president of Austria |
1929-11-17 |
Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico |
1929-12-14 |
Alexander Zaimis elected president of Greece |
1930-09-06 |
Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. |
1931-05-13 |
Paul Doumer elected president of France |
1932-01-12 |
Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) |
1932-04-10 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd) |
1932-08-30 |
Hermann Goering elected chairman of the Reichstag |
1932-11-08 |
Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time |
1933-01-03 |
Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States. |
1933-11-07 |
Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City. |
1934-07-02 |
General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico |
1935-10-23 |
Mackenzie King is elected as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time |
1936-01-14 |
L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America |
1936-01-15 |
Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants |
1936-01-29 |
1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson |
1936-05-10 |
Manuel Azaña elected president of Spain |
1936-12-08 |
Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua |
1937-01-19 |
Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1938-01-11 |
Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank |
1938-01-18 |
Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame |
1938-12-14 |
Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president |
1939-01-04 |
Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a US graduate school |
1939-01-17 |
Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert |
1939-01-24 |
Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler & George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame |
1939-04-15 |
Albert Lebrun elected president of France |
1939-12-07 |
Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1940-09-16 |
Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of House |
1940-11-06 |
Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President |
1942-11-03 |
William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago |
1943-09-13 |
Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres |
1944-08-01 |
Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East |
1945-01-10 |
No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
1946-02-24 |
Juan Peron elected President of Argentina |
1946-03-02 |
Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
1946-06-24 |
Georges Bidault elected premier of France |
1946-11-05 |
John F Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives |
1946-11-21 |
Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria |
1946-12-13 |
Leon Blum elected French premier |
1947-01-16 |
Vincent Aurial elected president of France |
1948-04-19 |
Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
1948-05-11 |
Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy |
1948-05-16 |
Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel |
1948-07-20 |
Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea |
1948-09-13 |
Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress |
1948-11-02 |
Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey |
1949-01-02 |
Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. |
1949-02-17 |
Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel |
1949-07-20 |
Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria |
1949-09-12 |
Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR |
1949-10-28 |
Georges Bidault elected president of France |
1950-02-01 |
Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland |
1950-02-27 |
General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
1950-05-22 |
Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey |
1950-07-02 |
Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic. |
1950-11-10 |
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected president of Guatemala |
1951-01-26 |
Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1951-05-10 |
Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council |
1951-09-20 |
NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball |
1951-10-26 |
Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister |
1952-01-31 |
Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1952-08-08 |
Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
1952-09-05 |
General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile |
1952-09-13 |
Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico |
1952-11-04 |
General Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th president of the USA, beating Adlai Stevenson (D) |
1952-12-03 |
Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela |
1952-12-08 |
Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel |
1952-12-10 |
Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
1953-04-07 |
Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary |
1953-06-19 |
Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council |
1953-08-19 |
The democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project) |
1953-10-09 |
Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor |
1953-12-24 |
René Coty elected president of France |
1954-06-16 |
Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam |
1954-06-27 |
CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala |
1954-07-17 |
Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany |
1954-11-01 |
General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba |
1954-11-02 |
Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's 1st black congressman |
1954-11-02 |
JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) |
1955-04-29 |
Giovanni Gronchi elected third president of Italy |
1955-08-18 |
Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria |
1956-01-26 |
Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1956-06-23 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt |
1956-10-12 |
Marga Klompe becomes first Dutch women elected minister |
1956-11-06 |
US Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D) |
1957-02-11 |
NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president |
1957-05-05 |
Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria |
1957-06-10 |
John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada |
1957-09-26 |
Dag Hammarskjoeld re-elected secretary-general of UN |
1957-10-03 |
Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin |
1957-10-22 |
Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany |
1957-10-27 |
Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey |
1958-02-12 |
Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala |
1958-02-23 |
Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina |
1958-06-01 |
Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France |
1958-07-06 |
Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico |
1958-10-28 |
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII |
1958-12-07 |
Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela |
1959-02-01 |
Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1959-04-27 |
Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China People's Republic |
1959-06-17 |
Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland |
1959-07-01 |
Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany |
1959-11-10 |
Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World |
1959-12-13 |
Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus |
1960-01-26 |
Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot |
1960-02-14 |
Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
1960-04-01 |
U Nu elected premier of Burma |
1960-09-05 |
The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. |
1960-10-03 |
Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil |
1961-01-03 |
Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor |
1961-07-07 |
James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters |
1962-01-23 |
Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1962-01-24 |
Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1962-05-06 |
Antonio Segni elected president of Italy |
1962-11-06 |
Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass) |
1962-11-06 |
Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts |
1962-11-09 |
Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World |
1962-11-30 |
U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously |
1963-01-27 |
Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1963-01-29 |
Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame |
1963-04-21 |
The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time. |
1963-05-27 |
Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya |
1963-06-30 |
Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church |
1963-07-31 |
Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina |
1963-09-15 |
Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria |
1963-12-20 |
Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville |
1964-02-17 |
101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling) |
1964-06-02 |
Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India |
1964-08-18 |
Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon |
1964-09-04 |
Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
1965-01-02 |
Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
1965-01-31 |
Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1965-02-23 |
Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president |
1965-05-23 |
Franz Jonas elected president of Austria |
1965-09-24 |
Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament |
1965-11-12 |
Ferdinand Marcos elected 10th President of Philippines |
1965-11-17 |
William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball |
1965-12-19 |
French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
1966-01-19 |
Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister |
1966-03-08 |
Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
1966-04-08 |
Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party |
1966-06-01 |
Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic |
1966-07-25 |
Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
1966-10-03 |
Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president |
1966-11-08 |
Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate |
1966-11-08 |
Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California |
1966-12-01 |
Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor |
1967-01-10 |
Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black |
1967-01-29 |
Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1967-02-05 |
Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
1967-05-06 |
Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India |
1967-09-03 |
Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
1967-09-28 |
Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC |
1967-11-07 |
Carl B Stokes elected first black mayor of a major US city - Cleveland, Ohio |
1967-11-07 |
Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana |
1967-11-29 |
Robert McNamara elected president of World bank |
1968-01-23 |
Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1968-01-28 |
Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1968-02-25 |
Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus |
1968-03-30 |
General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia |
1968-04-09 |
Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference |
1968-09-26 |
Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal |
1968-11-03 |
Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon |
1968-11-06 |
Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey |
1969-01-22 |
Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1969-02-28 |
Terence O'Neill re-elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and thus confirmed as Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
1969-03-05 |
Gustav Heinemann elected president of West Germany |
1969-04-17 |
People's Democracy activist Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected to Westminster at 21 years old |
1969-04-22 |
Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in Northern Ireland |
1969-05-01 |
James Chichester-Clark is elected as leader of the Unionist party, succeededing Terence O'Neill as the Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
1969-08-13 |
Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote |
1969-09-24 |
Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam |
1969-10-21 |
Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany |
1970-02-01 |
Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame |
1970-06-16 |
Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ |
1970-09-01 |
Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador |
1970-10-15 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt |
1970-10-16 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser |
1970-10-24 |
Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile |
1971-01-04 |
Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is |
1971-01-06 |
Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate |
1971-01-17 |
At a party conference in Dublin, Sinn Féin end their 65 year abstentionist policy and agree that any elected representative could take their seat at the Dáil |
1971-01-31 |
& Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1971-02-09 |
Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF |
1971-03-12 |
Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president |
1972-01-19 |
Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame |
1972-02-05 |
Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
1972-06-25 |
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
1972-11-07 |
Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) |
1972-12-14 |
Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor |
1973-01-24 |
Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1973-01-28 |
Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame |
1973-02-01 |
Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1973-02-09 |
Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India. |
1973-03-20 |
Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death |
1973-05-29 |
Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California |
1973-06-28 |
Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis & Althea Gibson elected |
1973-10-12 |
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
1973-10-16 |
Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta |
1973-11-06 |
Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit |
1974-01-13 |
Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. |
1974-01-28 |
Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame |
1974-02-05 |
John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States. |
1974-11-05 |
Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor |
1974-11-05 |
Walter E Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Wash DC |
1975-01-23 |
Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
1975-02-03 |
Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame |
1975-02-20 |
Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party |
1975-11-11 |
Australian PM Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr (1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs) |
1976-02-02 |
Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame |
1976-06-27 |
Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president |
1976-09-16 |
Egypt president Sadat re-elected |
1976-10-30 |
Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ |
1976-11-26 |
Willy Brandt elected chairman of Social International |
1976-12-03 |
Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland |
1977-01-19 |
Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame |
1977-01-31 |
Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1977-02-03 |
Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame |
1977-03-08 |
Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia |
1977-06-24 |
Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) |
1978-01-08 |
Harvey Milk becomes the 1st openly gay person elected to public office in California |
1978-01-19 |
Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame |
1978-01-30 |
Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1978-04-19 |
Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel |
1978-07-08 |
Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy |
1978-10-11 |
Aristides Royo elected president of Panama |
1978-10-16 |
Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II |
1979-01-23 |
Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1979-04-03 |
Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois |
1979-05-04 |
Margaret Thatcher 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
1979-09-20 |
Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation. |
1979-10-30 |
Richard Arrington, Jr. is elected the first African American mayor in Birmingham, Alabama |
1980-01-25 |
Bani Sadr elected president of Iran |
1980-02-02 |
FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors |
1980-05-05 |
Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece. |
1980-05-18 |
Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru |
1980-08-27 |
Chon Doo Hwan elected president of South Korea |
1980-10-21 |
Mikhail Gorbachev elected member of Politburo |
1981-01-09 |
Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal |
1981-01-15 |
Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1981-01-23 |
Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin |
1981-02-03 |
Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway |
1981-02-25 |
L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain |
1981-03-11 |
Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1981-04-09 |
Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands wins a by-election to be elected as a Member of Parliament at Westminster; the law is later changed to prevent prisoners standing in elections |
1981-04-10 |
Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament |
1981-07-24 |
Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran |
1981-10-02 |
Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran |
1981-10-13 |
Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt |
1981-10-18 |
Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader |
1981-10-27 |
Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
1981-10-28 |
Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia |
1982-01-13 |
Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame |
1982-01-20 |
Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament |
1982-01-26 |
Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland |
1982-02-07 |
Luis A Monge elected pres of Costa Rica |
1982-02-16 |
Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta |
1982-03-10 |
Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame |
1982-04-29 |
Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador |
1982-07-04 |
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico |
1982-08-23 |
Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president |
1982-10-04 |
Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR |
1982-10-20 |
Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected |
1982-11-26 |
Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki |
1983-01-12 |
Brooks Robinson & Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame |
1983-03-10 |
Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame |
1983-03-22 |
Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president |
1983-04-12 |
Harold Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor |
1983-06-16 |
USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
1983-11-08 |
Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky |
1983-11-08 |
W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia |
1984-01-10 |
Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame |
1984-03-03 |
Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) |
1984-03-04 |
Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1984-04-11 |
USSR party leader Chernenko elected president |
1984-07-11 |
Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana |
1985-01-07 |
Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1985-01-15 |
Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president |
1985-01-15 |
Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years |
1985-03-06 |
Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1985-03-29 |
Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece |
1986-01-08 |
Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year |
1986-01-14 |
Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 |
1986-02-02 |
Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica |
1986-02-16 |
Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres |
1986-03-10 |
Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame |
1986-04-08 |
Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day |
1986-04-14 |
Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown |
1986-05-25 |
Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia |
1986-06-08 |
Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria |
1986-06-24 |
Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years |
1986-11-03 |
Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique |
1987-01-14 |
Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1987-03-29 |
Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party |
1987-07-18 |
Molly Yard elected new pres of National Organization for Women |
1987-08-17 |
Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame |
1987-12-16 |
Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea |
1987-12-30 |
Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe |
1988-01-12 |
Willie Stargell (Pitts Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1988-01-17 |
Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti |
1988-02-14 |
Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
1988-04-12 |
Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs Calif |
1988-05-08 |
Francois Mitterrand elected president of France |
1988-06-25 |
Iceland's President Vigdis Finnbogadóttir elected (90+%) |
1988-07-06 |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico |
1988-09-08 |
NL pres Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commissioner |
1988-09-24 |
Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop |
1988-11-08 |
Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico |
1988-12-06 |
Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela |
1988-12-20 |
Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka |
1989-01-09 |
Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1989-01-20 |
Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive |
1989-02-10 |
Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
1989-02-28 |
Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
1989-05-25 |
Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union |
1989-07-06 |
Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game |
1989-08-19 |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland |
1989-09-13 |
Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner |
1989-10-31 |
Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey |
1989-11-04 |
Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon |
1989-11-07 |
Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (D-Va) |
1989-11-08 |
David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of NYC |
1989-11-08 |
Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia) |
1989-11-24 |
Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon |
1989-11-27 |
Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay |
1989-12-28 |
Alexander Dubček elected parliament chairman of Czech |
1990-01-09 |
Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1990-01-13 |
1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia) |
1990-02-27 |
No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years |
1990-03-13 |
Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada |
1990-04-12 |
1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss |
1990-05-16 |
Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected |
1990-05-29 |
Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic |
1990-11-06 |
Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected |
1990-11-07 |
Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland |
1990-12-16 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected pres of Haiti |
1990-12-16 |
Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti |
1990-12-22 |
Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president |
1991-01-06 |
Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala |
1991-01-08 |
Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame |
1991-01-08 |
Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try |
1991-01-09 |
Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame |
1991-01-13 |
Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected |
1991-02-07 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president |
1991-02-07 |
Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
1991-02-26 |
Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1991-06-12 |
Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation |
1991-06-16 |
Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR |
1991-06-21 |
NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame |
1991-07-10 |
Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Federation |
1991-07-21 |
Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, & Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY |
1991-11-05 |
Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan |
1991-11-24 |
Rachmon Nabijev elected president of Tadzjikistan |
1991-12-31 |
Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner |
1992-01-07 |
Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1992-03-22 |
Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner |
1992-04-09 |
John Majors, (C) elected PM of England |
1992-04-27 |
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. |
1992-05-25 |
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy |
1992-07-05 |
Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador |
1992-11-03 |
Carol Moseley Brown elected first black woman in US Senate |
1992-12-20 |
Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia |
1993-01-05 |
Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame |
1993-03-24 |
Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel |
1993-05-16 |
Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey |
1993-06-01 |
Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi |
1993-06-06 |
Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala |
1993-06-13 |
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran |
1993-06-25 |
NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame |
1993-07-07 |
Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia |
1993-08-28 |
Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president |
1993-11-02 |
Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ |
1993-11-02 |
Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem |
1993-11-02 |
Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC |
1993-11-13 |
Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president |
1993-12-05 |
Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela |
1993-12-11 |
Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
1994-01-12 |
Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1994-02-06 |
Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica |
1994-02-06 |
Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland |
1994-02-25 |
Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1994-04-25 |
Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan |
1994-05-08 |
Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama |
1994-05-16 |
Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic |
1994-05-23 |
Roman Herzog elected president of Germany |
1994-06-19 |
Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia |
1994-06-29 |
Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan |
1994-08-11 |
Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau |
1994-09-30 |
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi |
1994-10-03 |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil |
1994-11-15 |
Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) |
1994-11-27 |
Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay |
1995-01-08 |
Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1996-01-08 |
For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1996-01-27 |
Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. |
1996-03-05 |
Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame |
1996-03-07 |
The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed. |
1996-12-13 |
Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. |
1997-01-07 |
Newt Gingrich narrowly re-elected speaker of the US House of Representatives |
1997-05-01 |
Tony Blair elected Prime Minister of UK |
1997-09-18 |
Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame |
1998-12-06 |
Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela. |
1999-02-27 |
Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983. |
1999-03-05 |
Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut. |
1999-05-02 |
Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. |
1999-05-29 |
Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule. |
1999-06-16 |
Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa |
1999-11-27 |
The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. |
2000-07-02 |
Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. |
2000-11-07 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady. |
2002-04-29 |
The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years. |
2003-05-25 |
Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis. |
2003-10-07 |
Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor. |
2004-01-01 |
In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. |
2004-11-11 |
The death of Yasser Arafat is confirmed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later. |
2005-04-19 |
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave. |
2005-05-05 |
The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third consecutive term. |
2005-10-10 |
Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year. |
2005-11-23 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country. |
2005-11-27 |
President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, was re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term. |
2006-01-16 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. |
2007-03-07 |
British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. (yet to be implemented - 2014) |
2007-05-16 |
Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May. |
2007-09-18 |
Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. |
2008-11-04 |
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States |
2008-12-08 |
Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales. |
2009-02-01 |
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world. |
2009-10-02 |
Rio de Janeiro is elected the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. |
2011-02-05 |
Ed Sabol, co-founder of NFL Films, elected for enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
2012-02-12 |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote |
2012-03-18 |
Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly |
2012-03-26 |
Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal |
2012-05-06 |
Francois Hollande elected President of France |
2012-05-20 |
Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia |
2012-07-05 |
Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount following irregularities |
2012-07-22 |
Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India |
2012-09-13 |
Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya |
2012-09-25 |
Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands |
2012-10-08 |
Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term |
2012-10-08 |
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament |
2012-11-06 |
Barack Obama re-elected as US President |
2012-11-24 |
Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone |
2012-12-02 |
Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia |
2012-12-02 |
Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister |
2013-02-16 |
Anthony Carmona is elected President of Trinidad and Tobago |
2013-02-24 |
Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba |
2013-03-10 |
Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy |
2013-03-12 |
The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day |
2013-03-13 |
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis |
2013-04-14 |
Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada |
2013-04-15 |
Nicolás Maduro is narrowly elected President of Venezuela |
2013-04-20 |
Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy |
2013-04-21 |
Horacio Cartes is elected President of Paraguay |
2013-06-14 |
Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran |
2013-06-27 |
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia |
2013-07-30 |
Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan |
2013-08-12 |
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is elected President of Mali |
2013-09-09 |
Erna Solberg is elected Prime Minister of Norway after a centre-right coalition wins a majority in their elections |
2013-09-15 |
Edi Rama is elected Prime Minister of Albania |
2013-12-15 |
Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile |
2013-12-17 |
Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term |
2014-02-15 |
Tammam Salam is elected Prime Minister of Lebanon after a 10 month gridlock |
2014-03-29 |
Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia |
2014-04-03 |
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta |
2014-04-06 |
Viktor Orbán's Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary |
2014-05-04 |
Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama |
2014-05-21 |
José Mário Vaz is elected President of Guinea-Bissau |
2014-05-25 |
Petro Poroshenk is elected President of the Ukraine |
2014-05-25 |
Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania |
2014-05-28 |
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt |
2014-06-23 |
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania |
2014-07-01 |
Martin Schulz is re-elected President of the European Parliament |
2014-07-09 |
Joko Widodo is elected president of Indonesia |
2014-07-24 |
Fuad Masum is elected as the President of Iraq |
2014-10-12 |
Evo Morales is re-elected President of Bolivia |
2014-10-16 |
New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council |
2014-10-26 |
Dilma Rousseff is re-elected President of Brazil |
2015-12-13 |
First women elected to office in Saudi Arabia |
2016-08-28 |
Trump vows crackdown on immigrants who overstay visas if elected |
2017-01-19 |
Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, Ivan Rodriguez elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
2018-03-18 |
China's Premier Li re-elected by parliament to premiership |
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Date | Event |
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1857-09-08 |
Ida Henrietta Hyde, Davenport Iowa, American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode. She was the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society. |
1858-04-03 |
Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature |
1868-10-19 |
Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle) |
1875-07-15 |
Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962) |
1878-02-01 |
Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate |
1880-06-11 |
Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana) |
1881-03-18 |
Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963) |
1883-08-09 |
George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961) |
1893-12-06 |
Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960) |
1895-03-01 |
G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of fame (elected 1958) |
1897-02-15 |
Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965) |
1899-02-03 |
Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961) |
1899-12-09 |
Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (Those not elected) |
1903-03-20 |
Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro (elected 1961) |
1906-02-10 |
John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962) |
1908-07-26 |
Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73) |
1912-08-16 |
Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister |
1962-10-05 |
Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986) |
1971-03-26 |
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Date | Event |
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1961-08-28 |
Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies |
1978-11-27 |
Harvey Milk, first openly gay person to be elected to public office, assassinated by Dan White at 48 |
1989-11-22 |
Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon |
2015-01-03 |
Edward Brooke, 1st black elected senator, dies at 95 |