Today in History

1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1907 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1929 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1933 - Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1967 - Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1973 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1983 - 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building.
1990 - Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
1991 - Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2000 - Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2007 - Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

Births:
1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist
1922 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
1938 - Dee Clark, American singer (d. 1990)
1942 - Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer
1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
1944 - Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
1949 - Judy Tenuta, American comedian
1952 - David Petraeus, American military commander
1957 - Christopher Knight, American actor (Peter Brady)
1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1970 - Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
1974 - Kris Benson, American baseball player
1976 - One Be Lo, hip-hop artist
1979 - Will Demps, American football player
1979 - Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
1979 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
1979 - Mike Commodore, American professional hockey player
1981 - Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler