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In 1605 the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. In 1872 suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for President Grant. (She never paid the fine.) In 1895 George B. Selden of Rochester, NY, received the first US patent for an automobile. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft. In 1940 President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Wilkie. In 1944 British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang. In 1946 for the first time since 1931, Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections. In 1968 Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. In 1996 voters re-elected President Clinton over Republican Sen. Robert Dole, but kept Congress in Republican control.