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Events on Tuesday 5 November 1912 1
1912Woodrow Wilson elected U.S. PresidentDemocrat wins a three-way raceWoodrow Wilson wins the U.S. presidential election on 5 November 1912, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and former president Theodore Roosevelt, who split the Republican vote by running as a Progressive. Wilson's victory ushers in a period of progressive domestic reform ahead of the First World War.