Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew electoral boundaries in the first example of ‘gerrymandering’.
HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918
6th February 2018
Anthony and fourteen other women successfully cast their votes despite it being illegal under federal law.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States.
Running against Caleb S. Hunt, Menard secured approximately 64 percent of the vote, and on 3 November 1868 became the first African-American person to be elected to the United States Congress.
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019