On this day – Nov. 8 1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard
Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the
twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United
States.

Kennedy, 43, became the youngest man ever to be elected
elected president of the United States, narrowly beating
Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the
first Catholic to become president.

 
David N. Dinkins (1927 – 2020)             Douglas D. Wilder   
                        

On November 7, 1989, in New York, former Manhattan borough
president David Dinkins, a Democrat, was elected New York
City’s first African American mayor, while in Virginia,
Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, also a Democrat,
becomes the first elected African American state governor
in American history.