On this day in 1877, a major turning point in U.S. history, the biggest presidential election mess ever:

Rutherford Hayes 

Wins Deadlocked Presidential Election 

Deal Ends Reconstruction - Allows Jim Crow To Begin

A Hip Huges History Summary

On this day in 1877, the Democrat Party conceded the hotly contested presidential election of 1876 to the Republicans in exchange for the complete withdrawal of federal troops from the South. This was the effective end of Reconstruction and led to Democrat majorities in all Southern states, the disenfranchisement of blacks, and the passage of Jim Crow Laws which segregated blacks from whites in public facilities in the South for approximately the next 90 years.