Also on this day: Aviator Calbraith P. Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, Calif., completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49 days. (REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration) Republican Richard M.
Nixon wins the presidency, defeating Democratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C.
Wallace.Democrat Ella T. Grasso is elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana several times in the 1960s and 70s, calling it a mistake. (Ginsburg would end up withdrawing his nomination.) Malice Green, a Black motorist, dies after he was struck in the head 14 times with a flashlight.
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