- 1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
               - 1861: Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
               - 1862: A telegraph link was established between New York and San
                 Francisco.
               - 1869: Rutgers and Princeton played the first intercollegiate
                 football game.
               - 1897: Peter Pan opened in New York at the Empire Theater.
               - 1917: The Bolshevik revolution began in Russia with the capture of
                 the Winter Palace; women won voting rights in New York and Ohio.
               - 1928: Jacob Schick patented the first electric razor. Herbert
                 Hoover was elected president.
               - 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected president.
               - 1943: After more than two years of German rule, the Russians
                 recaptured Kiev.
               - 1952: The U.S. exploded the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll.
               - 1962: The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning
                 South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommending member
                 states apply economic sanctions.
               - 1968: Richard Nixon was elected president, defeating Hubert
                 Humphrey.
               - 1979: Ayatolla Khomeini took over Iran.
               - 1991: Russian President Boris Yeltsin banned the Communist Party.
               - 1995: Israel buried Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who
                 opposed peace with Palestinians.
               - 1996: More than 2,000 people were killed or lost at sea when a
                 cyclone struck India's major crop-growing state of Andhra Pradesh.
               - 1997: Paul Ricard, France's King of Pastis and one of the country's
                 richest and most influential men, died aged 88. His "Pastis de
                 Marseilles" brand was sold in 150 countries and was the world's
                 number three alcoholic drink.

               *Happy Birthday*
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               - Ray Conniff, 82, conductor/bandleader, many hit albums in '50s-'60s
               - Sally Field, 52, actress, "Norma Rae" Absence of Malice"
               - Jonathan Harris, 84, actor, "The Third Man"
               - Ethan Hawke, 28, actor, "Reality Bites"
               - Mike Nichols, 67, director, "The Graduate"
               - Maria Shriver, 43, newscaster/correspondent