1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1940 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to a third term as President of The United States of America.
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
Born Today:
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
1963 - Tatum O'Neal, American actress
1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
1987 - Kevin Jonas, American guitarist, member of the Jonas Brothers
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