SANDY KOZEL

In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election
history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman
defeats his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas
E. Dewey of New York, by just over two million popular
votes.

       
In the days preceding the vote, political analysts and
polls were so behind Dewey that on election night,
long before all the votes were counted, the Chicago
Tribune published an early edition with the banner
headline above, “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.”          

Harry Truman (left) and his political rival Thomas Dewey.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s request to add
a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal
voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge
ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C.,
sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the
Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S.
elections.

She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an
unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.

Complicated and tension-filled negotiations between the United
States and the Soviet Union finally result in a plan to end the two
-week-old Cuban Missile Crisis. A frightening period in which
nuclear holocaust seemed imminent began to come to an end.

     
     
     
     
   
In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F.
Kennedy announced on October 22, 1962 that U.S. spy planes
have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

These missile sites—under construction but nearing completion —housed medium-range missiles capable of striking a number
of major cities in the United States, including Washington, D.C.

Kennedy announced that he was ordering a naval “quarantine”
of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more
offensive weapons to the island and explained that the United
States would not tolerate the existence of the missile sites
currently in place.