1576: Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp
1841: First wagon train arrives in California
1845: First nationally observed uniform election day in the Unites States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
1862: American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
1879: African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus
1922: Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain
Source: Onthisday.com
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