TV actress Michelle Clunie

Events in 1969 and 7-11

Events in US in the birth year of Michelle Clunie

• Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US (Jan. 20).
• Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement (June 28).
• Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of fatal accident at Chappaquiddick, Mass. (July 18) in which Mary Jo Kopechne was drowned—gets two-month suspended sentence (July 25). Background: Timeline of Kennedy tragedies
• Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., —take first walk on the Moon (July 20).

Birthday Michelle Clunie (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.