This was the beginning of the so-called âbaby boom.â In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born; 3.9 million were born in 1952; and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964, when the boom finally tapered off. By then, there were 76.4 million âbaby boomersâ in the United States.
In the election of 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in what some consider the most disputed presidential election in American history. Tilden won the popular vote that year, getting about 4.3 million votes while Hayes only got about 4.03 million votes.
1 Rutherford B. Hayes who lost by 264,292 votes to Samuel J. Tilden in 1876. 2  Benjamin Harrison who lost by 95,713 votes to Grover Cleveland in 1888. 3  George W. Bush who lost by 543,816 votes to Al Gore in the 2000 election.