A Tuesday in November was chosen because most voters were farmers - harvest was over and many had to travel as much as a day or two to vote.

Sharon Owens — whose career in public service launched more than 40 years ago with a college internship at a neighborhood community center — has now made Syracuse history. Voters elected Owens the first Black mayor of Syracuse on Tuesday.

Farah L. Emeka made history Nov. 4 when she was elected the first Black woman judge in Lorain County history. Voters elected Emeka judge of Oberlin Municipal Court, 6,548 to 5,397, over Richard S.

Ovechkin scored career goal No. 900 in a game between his Washington Capitals and the St. Louis Blues at Capital One Arena. Already the NHL’s all-time goals leader, Ovechkin is the league’s first player to score at least 900 goals.

Shepherd “Shep” Mullens, the county’s first Black county commissioner, also served in the Texas House of Representatives.

Selected by the Capitals at the top of the 2004 draft, Ovechkin entered the NHL in 2005 and went on to score more than 45 goals in each of his first five seasons. After scoring a career-high 65 goals in 2008, he became the first player to win the Hart, Art Ross, Rocket Richard and Ted Lindsay awards in the same season.

The Toronto Blue Jays hit the first back-to-back homers to begin a game in World Series history Wednesday night when Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. connected on the first and third pitches by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Blake Snell.