TV show host Chuck Scarborough

Events in 1943 and 4-11

Events in US in the birth year of Chuck Scarborough

• President freezes prices, salaries, and wages to prevent inflation .
• Withholding tax on wages introduced. Background: History of the Income Tax in the United States
• The Pentagon is completed and becomes the largest office building in the world.
• The Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1882 and 1902 are repealed permitting immigration and naturalization of Chinese.

Birthday Chuck Scarborough (4-11) in history

• Day 4-11 year 1842: Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, , Illinois
• Day 4-11 year 1880: James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register.
• Day 4-11 year 1922: Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.
• Day 4-11 year 1924: Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor, to serve out the term of her husband who died in office.
• Day 4-11 year 1956: Russian troops attacked Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolt under Premier Imre Nagy.
• Day 4-11 year 1979: The American embassy in Tehran, Iran, was seized by militants and 90 Americans were taken hostage.
• Day 4-11 year 1995: Israeli Prime Minister, and Nobel Laureate, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli.
• Day 4-11 year 2008: Democratic senator Barack Obama wins the presidential election against Sen. John McCain, taking 338 electoral votes to McCain's 161. Obama makes history as the first African American U.S. president.