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| 1854 | John Philip Sousa, the king of American march music, was born in Washington, D.C. |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy. |
| 1861 | James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada. |
| 1887 | Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas. |
| 1888 | Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote. |
| 1893 | Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| 1900 | President William B. McKinley was returned to office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan. |
| 1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa. |
| 1928 | Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over Democrat Alfred E. Smith. |
| 1956 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term by besting Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson at the polls. |
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| 1995 | Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move the team to Baltimore. |
| 2001 | Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg was elected New York City mayor. |
| 2009 | The government reported that unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in the U.S. in October, the first time the jobless rate had hit double digits since 1983. |
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