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1839— Talk about a drug bust— the first Opium War begins in China.

1868— Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horatio Seymour for the presidency. 

1913 – The US institutes an income tax.

1936 - Franklin D. Roosevelt wins his second term in a landslide victory over “some guy” named Alfred ”Alf” Landon.

1986 – The Iran-Contra affair begins when a Lebanese magazine reveals that the US had been selling weapons to Iran.

1992—  Bill Clinton defeats incumbent President George H.W. Bush to become the 42nd  US President.

1992—  Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun is elected to the US Senate, the first African-American to hold  this office.

1997 – The US imposes economic sanctions against Sudan.

2007 – Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule across Pakistan.