Sports commentator Lindsay Czarniak

Events in 1977 and 7-11

Events in US in the birth year of Lindsay Czarniak

• First woman Episcopal priest ordained (Jan. 1).
• Scientists identify previously unknown bacterium as cause of mysterious "legionnaire's disease" (Jan. 18).
• Carter pardons Vietnam war draft evaders (Jan. 21).
• Supreme Court rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions (June 20).

Birthday Lindsay Czarniak (7-11) in history

• Day 7-11 year 1874: The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
• Day 7-11 year 1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
• Day 7-11 year 1917: Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
• Day 7-11 year 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
• Day 7-11 year 1962: Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
• Day 7-11 year 1967: Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
• Day 7-11 year 1989: L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. He became the nation's first elected black governor.
• Day 7-11 year 2000: The U.S. went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.