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FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO CONGRESS

On November 7, 1916, Montana suffragist Jeannette Rankin 
was elected to the U.S
.
House of Representatives. She is the
first woman in the history of the nation to win a seat in the
federal Congress.

Jeannette Rankin - New Georgia Encyclopedia

Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973)

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AN UNPRECEDENTED FOURTH TERM WON

Heroes, Heroines, and History: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Unprecedented  Fourth Term


On November 7, 1944,
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was
elected to an
unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains
the
only president to have served more than two terms.

F.D.R. wins a 4th Presidential election... - RareNewspapers.com

FDR wins unprecedented fourth term | November 7, 1944 | HISTORY

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

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THE FIRST COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME

America's first football game

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On November 6, 1869, Rutgers beat Princeton, 6-4, in the first
college football game
. The game, played with a soccer ball
before roughly 100 fans in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
resembles rugby instead of today’s football.


William A. Reynolds, former Princeton Football
player and first head coach at Rutgers College.

The First Football Game Statue - Rutgers University Photograph by Allen  Beatty - Pixels
The First Football Game Statue – Rutgers University.

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PAST EVENTS THAT MADE NEWS HISTORY

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SANDY KOZEL

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FORMER VICE PRESIDENT HAS DIED AT 84

The VICE File: Dick Cheney Declassified | National Security Archive

Dick Cheney Dies at 89: A Look Back on His Consequential Career
President George W. Bush and his VP Dick Cheney.

Dick Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, died on Monday.  He was 84.⁠ ⁠ Cheney's family shared that he passed from complications of  pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.⁠ ⁠ "

(FOX NEWS) – The family stated…“His beloved wife of 61
years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other
family members were with him as he passed,”

Cheney reportedly died from complications of pneumonia
and cardiac and vascular disease.

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