In 1789, Congress sets this date by which states are required to choose electors for the country's first-ever presidential election. A month later, on Feb. 4, George Washington was elected president by state electors and sworn into office on April 30.
In 1891, noted author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, was born in Alabama. Her father later became mayor of Eatonville, Fla. - one of the few incorporated all-black towns in the U.S. Hurston wrote four novels and dozens of short stories and essays. She is best known for her 1937 novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” now regarded as a seminal work in African-American literature and female literature.
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