The unmanned Saturn/Apollo 4 (AS-501) mission was the first unmanned test flight of the three stage Saturn V rocket. It carried a payload of an Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) into Earth orbit.

NBC declares Kennedy the winner  

NBCs David Brinkley covering election results

 
John F. Kennedy on Election Night about to deliver his victory speech.

 
Ronald and Nancy Reagan celebrate his Reagan’s gubernatorial victory.

Ronald Reagan was elected to his first term as the 33rd Governor of California
with 57.65% of the vote. He defeated two-term governor Edmund G. “Pat”
Brown. Reagan was sworn in on January 2, 1967 and served for two
terms. He left office in 1975, declining to run for a third term.

Ronald Reagan being sworn in as Governor of California

Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1940 election of November 5th with 55% of the popular vote and 38 of the 48 states. Henry A. Wallace ws named Vice President in
place of the conservative Texan John Nance Garner. 

On this day in 1924, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected as the nation’s first
female governor to serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B.
Ross who died of complications from an appendectomy. As the 14th Governor
of Wyoming she served from 1925 to 1927. On May 3, 1933 President Franklin
Roosevelt appointed her the first female director of the U.S. Mint, where she
served five full terms until her retirement in 1953. Ross died in December of
1977 at the age of 101.