On this day in 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) was declared the winner and 19th president of the United States after the 1876 presidential election by the United States Congress. However, it was Samuel J. Tilden (below), who won the popular vote on Nov. 7, 1876. Hayes served a single term, as he had promised in his inaugural address.
Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) He was the 25th Governor of New York.
On this day in 2001, President Bill Clinton escaped indictment by surrendering his Arkansas law license for five years and admitting that he made false statements under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
A twelve-year-old Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton at Sevier High School.
Dolly Rebecca Parton is 73 years young today.
Country singer Dolly Parton has released twenty-six #1 Billboard hits, including "Jolene," "Coat of Many Colors," and "9 to 5." Parton’s music includes 25 Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards.
She grew up alongside eleven brothers and sisters in a one-room cabin in Appalachia, Tennessee where she learned to sing at church.
She received the nickname The Queen of Country Music after releasing more #1 hits than any other country singer in U.S. history. Dolly is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award and has received 47 Grammy nominations.
On this day in 1789, the first United States presidential election was held and George Washington won with a unanimous vote.The above painting depicts Washington giving his first inaugural speech.
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President Clinton went on trial before the Senate on this day in 1999, only the second time in U.S. history that an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
Bill Clinton emphatically denying having an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Bill Clinton during his grand jury deposition in August 1998.
On this day in 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore (below) conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
President-elect George W. Bush (left) meets with Vice President Al Gore following the election.
Slobodan Milošević (August 20, 1941 – March 11, 2006)
The United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague issued a sweeping new indictment on this day in 2001 of the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, charging him with genocide in connection with the war in Bosnia in 1992-95.
In its third and gravest indictment, the tribunal charged that Milosevic ”participated in a joint criminal enterprise, the purpose of which was the forcible and permanent removal of the majority of non-Serbs from large areas of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.”
The former Yugoslav president died in his prison cell of a heart attack, a few months before the verdict was due for his four-year trial.
The first edition of "Life" was published and hit the newsstands on this day in 1936. It featured a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Burke-White. The 466,000 print run immediately sold out.
Photographs published by Life magazine became some of the most recognizable images of U.S. and world events in the 20th century.