1997 John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58
1996 Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of Pres
1995 Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26
1993 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM
1989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello pres
1989 Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres
1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari
1987 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
1986 Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
1984 Joe Cronin, shortstop/American League Pres, dies at 77
1983 Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery
1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
1980 Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League pres
1978 Houari Boumediene, Algerian Pres, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53
1973 Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres
1970 Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered
1969 Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78
1968 Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres
1966 Malawi becomes a republic, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes pres
1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president
1964 J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
1961 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Washington D.C. residents to vote for pres
1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1954 Getulio D Vargas, pres/dictator Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71
1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR
1945 Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres
1944 Hamilton Jordan, political advisor, Crisis, Last Year of Carter Pres
1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres
1935 Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist, 7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant
1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
1925 Al Rosen, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 3rd baseman, AL MVP 1953, /NY Yankee pres
1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres
1922 Norodom Sihanouk, king/pres/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA
1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39
1913 Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
1911 Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
1910 Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary, Natl Association of Women
1909 Lester W. "Pres" Young, U.S. jazz saxophonist
1909 Cecil Marley, cricketer, Jamaican batsman 1928-1946, WICBC pres
1906 Joe Cronin, baseball, Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres
1901 William Samuel Paley, born in Chicago, Illinois, pres/CEO of CBS, 1928-90
1901 Ngo Dinh Diem, pres/dictator of South Vietnam, 1955-63
1885 Ulysses S Grant, 18th U.S. pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63
1878 George M. Cohan, actor/singer, Phantom Pres, Give My Regards to Bdwy
1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. pres
1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres
1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres
1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
1842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, Amer Home Eco Assn-1st Pres
1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1808 James Madison elected U.S. pres/George Clinton vice-pres
1804 Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. pres/George Clinton vice-pres
1792 George Washington re-elected U.S. pres
1731 Samuel Huntington, Gov-Ct, Continental Congress pres
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