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January 12, 1933
Hattie W. Carraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.

January 7, 1789
With George Washington-who ran unopposed-leaving office as the nation's first President, America holds its first national election. John Adams, Washington's Vice President, is elected over Thomas Jefferson.

March 1, 1974
Seven top aides of President Richard Nixon are indicted for conspiring to hinder the investigation of the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Building. They include H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman, and former Attorney General John Mitchell, who resigned to head the president's re-election campaign of that year. Though still denying his knowledge of or involvement with the affair, the president will resign on August 9.

January 6, 1969
Good news for Richard Nixon: the salary accompanying the job of President of the United States which he will be sworn into later this month, is raised as of today from $100,000 to $200,000 a year.

October 7, 1976
"There is no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe," says President Gerald R. Ford, committing political suicide in the course of a televised debate with Democratic Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter.

April 17, 1958
The Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution votes to urge Congress to withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. and to force the organization to leave the country. Seventy-five delegates voice strong objection to the proposals. The body also votes resolutions against water fluoridation, Federal aid to education, and reciprocal trade.

January 2, 1949
Luis Munoz Marin, the 50-year-old leader of Puerto Rico's Popular Democratic Party and a one-time Greenwich Village-based writer, is sworn in as Puerto Rico's first popularly elected governor. Previously, the island's highest officials were appointed either by Spain or the United States.

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