Abraham Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth President
of the United States. He defeated three other candidates.

President Harry S. Truman narrowly won re-election over Republican
challenger Thomas E. Dewey. It was widely felt that Truman was going
to lose the election. As a result,the Chicago Tribune’s first edition ran
the incorrect headline.

Congress, on this date in 1919, passed the Volstead Act, also known as The Prohibition Amendment. This was over the veto of President Woodrow Wilson. 

The Statue Of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor
on this date in 1886 by President Grover Cleveland.

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was born on this date in 1858.

He was the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.