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Roosevelt carries 46 of 48 states; Landon holds only Maine and Vermont

In the Depression's eighth year, voters return the New Deal's author to office with 523 electoral votes, and Republicans lose ground in Congress as well.

The Great Depression was entering its eighth year when Americans voted on November 3, 1936, and the election was a referendum on Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Roosevelt, running again with Vice President John Nance Garner, won about 60.8 percent of the popular vote and 523 of 531 electoral votes. Kansas Governor Alf Landon, the Republican nominee, carried only Maine and Vermont, eight electoral votes in all. Roosevelt took 46 of the 48 states, and Democrats gained seats in Congress…

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1903

Panama breaks from Colombia; an American warship sits off Colón

Colombia's generals are separated from their troops, and a gunboat's shells mortally wound one man in Panama City.
1868

Louisiana's 2nd District elects John Willis Menard, a Black newspaper editor, to Congress

The Republican wins the unexpired term of the late Democrat James Mann in a special election, during Reconstruction.
1948

The Tribune's early edition crowns Dewey; the returns say otherwise

A printers' strike pushed the press deadline hours earlier, and about 150,000 copies roll before the count turns.
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Officers who threatened Congress over unpaid wages in the spring now go home under the authority they once defied.
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1941

Shovels hit dirt at Hoover Field; the War Department breaks ground on a five-sided headquarters

Contracts worth $31.1 million are finalized the same day, sixty years to the day before the building's darkest morning.
1924

American forces leave Santo Domingo; Dominican National Guard takes over policing

The handover closes an eight-year occupation, but Washington keeps its grip on the country's customs house.
1944

American troops push into the Hürtgen Forest, aiming for a village called Schmidt

Dense conifers and steep ravines await, ground the Germans have spent weeks fortifying with bunkers and mines.
1918

2,711 guns open fire before dawn as America's biggest offensive begins

The barrage alone cost about a million dollars a minute, before a single soldier crossed the wire.
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