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.
Before the 2000 presidential race, the popular and electoral vote had been split three times â all in the 1800s. Here's the full list that Hillary Clinton is now poised to join: Andrew Jackson in 1824 (lost to John Quincy Adams) Samuel Tilden in 1876 (lost to Rutherford B. Hayes)