NOVEMBER 7
1989:Overcoming his state's legacy of racial discrimination, L. Douglas Wilder is elected governor of Virginia; he is the first elected African American governor in the United States. The same day, David Dinkins is elected as New York City's first African American mayor. Both are Democrats.
1874: In a cartoon in Harper's Weekly, Thomas Nast first uses an elephant to represent the Republican Party; he is also noted as the first caricaturist to use a donkey as a Democratic Party symbol.
1916: Jeannette Rankin is elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana's 2nd District, becoming the first United States congresswoman.
1874: In a cartoon in Harper's Weekly, Thomas Nast first uses an elephant to represent the Republican Party; he is also noted as the first caricaturist to use a donkey as a Democratic Party symbol.
1916: Jeannette Rankin is elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana's 2nd District, becoming the first United States congresswoman.
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