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November 7: This Day in History

Featured Fact, 1962:
Richard M. Nixon, having lost California's gubernatorial race, holds what he calls his "last press conference," telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

Also Today:
1874: The Republican party is first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress.
1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins a fourth term in office.