2006 Hugo Chavez, leftist dictator, is re-elected President of Venezuela
2005 Bolivia elects leftist Evo Morales president
2005 George W. Bush is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States
2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President
2004 President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director
2004 George W. Bush wins a second term as U.S. president, winning 51% of the popular vote
2004 Former President Bill Clinton undergoes a quadruple bypass operation
2004 Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention
2004 Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving
2004 Ronald Reagan, actor/president/governor, CA, dies at 93
2003 Laurence Tisch, entrepreneur/philanthropist, president ov Loews Theatres, dies at 80
2003 President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over
2003 Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, "
2003 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents)
2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil'
2001 George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States
2000 Jason Robards, actor, All the President's Men, dies at 78
2000 Al Gore concedes presidential election, George W. Bush named president
2000 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns
2000 The Democratic party nominates Al Gore to run for president
2000 The Republican party nominates George W. Bush to run for president
1999 Senate acquits President Clinton of lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinski case
1999 Senate begins to try President Clinton on lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewisnky case
1998 House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment, charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice
1998 Alan J. Pakula, "director, producer", All the President's Men, dies at 70
1998 House of Representatives approves impeachment inquiry of President Clinton
1998 President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky
1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton
1998 Federal court rules President Clinton does not have executive privilege in the Lewinsky case so he must testify
1998 Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton is thrown out of court
1998 Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
1998 Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/President (1961-63), dies
1998 President Bill Clinton says he would never resign, 'I would never walk away from the of this country and the trust they've placed in me', during a press conference
1998 First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy
1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
1998 Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies
1998 News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations
1998 President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
1997 Ewart G. Abner, Jr., president (Motown Records), dies at 74
1997 President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"
1997 Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies
1997 Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies
1997 Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1997 Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
1997 Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies
1997 Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12
1997 Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies
1997 President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
1997 Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies
1997 Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies
1997 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78
1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1997 Enrique Peralta Azurdia, milt President of Guatemala in (1963-66), dies
1997 Jim Kensil, NFL president for the New York Jets, dies of heart failure at 66
1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
1996 Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies
1996 Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies
1996 Alain Poher, French President of European Parliament (1966-69), dies
1996 Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
1996 Najibullah, President of Afghanistan Democratic Party (1986-90), executed
1996 Ernesto Geisel, milt president of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89
1996 Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies
1996 Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82
1996 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
1996 Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1996 Bob Dole, Sen-R-KS, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president
1996 Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies
1996 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83
1996 Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies
1996 Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (1963-66), dies
1996 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (1966-70), dies
1996 Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
1996 Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies
1996 Edmund S Muskie, vice President candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81
1996 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies
1996 Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61
1996 Or San Yu, president of Burma in (1981-88), dies
1996 Francois Mitterrand, President of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79
1995 Nello Celio, president of Switz (1972), dies at 81
1995 Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
1995 Sicco Mansholt, President Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
1995 Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
1995 Juan Carlos Ongania, President of Argentina (1966-70), dies
1995 President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
1995 Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1995 Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies
1995 Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104
1995 Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
1995 Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies
1995 Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84
1995 Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil
1994 President brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
1994 Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78
1994 Kim II Sung, President of North Korea (1945-94), dies at 82
1994 Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated
1994 Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
1994 Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
1994 Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
1994 Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1994 Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
1994 President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
1994 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
1994 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
1994 Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
1994 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi
1994 Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69
1994 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1994 Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau
1994 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
1994 Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees
1994 Kim II Sung, President of North-Korea (1948-94), buried
1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1994 Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82
1994 Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
1994 Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria
1994 Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81
1994 Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994 Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1994 Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
1994 Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica
1994 President Clinton announces U.S. will no longer repatriate boat people
1994 President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
1994 Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81
1994 Richard M. Nixon, American President
1994 Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later
1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1994 Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi
1994 Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
1994 Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
1994 Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44
1994 El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1994 Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica
1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland
1994 President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam
1994 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras
1994 Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad son, dies in car accident at 31
1994 Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72
1994 Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies
1994 Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1993 Thomas J Watson Jr, president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79
1993 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54
1993 Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies
1993 Guinee general Lansana re-elected president
1993 Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75
1993 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1993 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88
1993 Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela
1993 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1993 Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1993 Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
1993 Milt coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee
1993 Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40
1993 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
1993 John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
1993 Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1993 Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin
1993 Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to President Aristide, murdered
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1993 Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign
1993 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton
1993 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia
1993 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala
1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi
1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1993 Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1993 Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68
1993 Turgut zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
1993 Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
1993 Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
1993 Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies
1993 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
1993 Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
1993 Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78
1993 William J. Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president
1993 Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
1992 President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair
1992 Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia
1992 Carl Barger, baseball President (Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins), dies at 62
1992 Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies
1992 Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91
1992 Alexander Dubcek, President of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies
1992 Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush
1992 VP Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil
1992 Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
1992 Flora SA Benson, U.S., wife of President Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies
1992 Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies
1992 Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies
1992 Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 President candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1992 Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73
1992 Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria
1992 Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador
1992 Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
1992 Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines
1992 Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73
1992 Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan
1992 President Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch
1992 Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies
1992 Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria
1992 Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
1992 Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies
1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy
1992 President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1992 Joe Burke, president (Kansas City Royals), dies at 68, dies
1992 Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
1992 Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
1992 Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns
1992 Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress
1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
1992 Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
1992 Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies
1992 William H Schuman, U.S. composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81
1992 President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1992 Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to President De Klerk, dies
1992 Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation
1992 Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies
1992 Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R.
1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
1991 Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan
1991 Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1991 Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1991 Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies
1991 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti
1991 President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
1991 Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee
1991 Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
1991 Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC
1991 President Bush declares recession is near an end
1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991 Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins
1991 Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in U.S.
1991 President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1991 Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/president (International Actors Federation), dies
1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1991 President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game
1991 President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
1991 J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
1991 Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tome e Principal
1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
1991 President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
1991 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
1991 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala
1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
1991 Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
1991 Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
1990 President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
1990 Expos President Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
1990 Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia
1990 President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
1990 Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1990 President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
1990 "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book
1990 South African president F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington D.C.
1990 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
1990 Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
1990 President Bush calls up military reserves
1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
1990 President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1990 Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies
1990 Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies
1990 South Africa President F W de Klerk lifts 4 year of state of emergency
1990 Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of U.S.S.R. supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia
1990 Dominican Republic President Joaquin Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
1990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate President debate, dies at 84
1990 Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated
1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's president
1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti
1990 Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer
1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
1990 Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
1990 Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
1990 South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
1990 South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs
1990 Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
1989 Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1989 Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1989 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
1989 U.S.S.R. President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
1989 India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1989 Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay
1989 Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay
1989 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
1989 Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
1989 Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
1989 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1989 South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1989 Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns
1989 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1989 Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey
1989 South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners
1989 Ferdinand E Marcos, president of Philippines (1965-86), dies at 72
1989 FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa
1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1989 Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
1989 President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia
1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
1989 Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina
1989 South-African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1989 Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1989 Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
1989 Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres
1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
1989 VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president
1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
1988 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka
1988 Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
1988 Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union
1988 Billy Carter, President Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1988 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65
1988 NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish
1988 Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as President of Burma
1988 Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president
1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63
1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in crash at 64
1988 Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1988 Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma
1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988 Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%)
1988 Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89
1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan
1988 Francois Mitterrand elected president of France
1988 Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate
1988 Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85
1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
1988 James R Killian Jr, MIT President (1948-59), dies at 83
1988 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname
1988 Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti
1988 Chiang Ching-huo, president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69
1987 Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
1987 Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea
1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1987 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1987 Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies
1987 Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies
1987 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70
1987 Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon, dies at 87
1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women
1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
1987 Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines
1987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
1987 Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils President
1987 President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
1987 Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad and Tobago
1987 President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1987 Troops of Chad President Habre conquer Fada oasis
1986 Ron Kass, record co President (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
1986 President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1986 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
1986 U.S. president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
1986 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53
1986 President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta
1986 President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
1986 Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president of Finland, dies at 85
1986 Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
1986 President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1986 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
1986 President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 A. Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
1986 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
1986 President Reagan appoints Dr. James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1986 Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
1986 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
1986 President Reagan announces formation of Commission on Challenger Accident
1986 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1986 South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents
1986 Abdel Fattah Ismail, president of South-Yemen (19??-80), murdered
1986 US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1985 Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
1985 President Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1985 Argentine President Alfonsins Radical Burgerunie wins elections
1985 President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
1985 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed president of U.S.S.R.
1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
1985 U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1985 El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
1985 Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/president of U.S.S.R. (1984-85), dies at 73
1985 South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
1985 Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
1984 President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1984 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 Rep convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and VP Bush
1984 Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president
1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
1984 President Reagan visits China
1984 Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1984 U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president
1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead
1983 Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1983 President Reagan became 1st U.S. President to address Japan's legislature
1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L. King day
1983 Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 U.S. Marines in Lebanon
1983 Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
1983 Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees
1983 AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows
1983 U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1983 AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1983 Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/president of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80
1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1983 President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1983 U.S. president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" missile defense plan (SDI)
1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
1983 President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"
1983 Nikolaj V Podgorny, president U.S.S.R., dies at 79
1982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico
1982 Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected
1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
1982 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies
1982 Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon
1982 Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
1982 Nahum Goldmann, President Zionist World Organization, dies at 87
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81
1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, President Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1982 Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office
1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
1982 President Reagan 1st United Nations Gen Assembly address, "evil empire" speech
1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
1982 General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala
1982 President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth
1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1982 Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador
1982 Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador
1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor, President (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80
1982 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed
1982 Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees
1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1982 Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
1982 Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica
1982 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Neth
1982 Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland
1982 Roberto S. Cordova installed as president of Honduras
1982 Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland
1982 Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71
1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees
1981 President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1981 President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1981 [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
1981 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
1981 Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1981 Milt coup under general Kolingba in Cent Afr Rep, President Dacko flees
1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan
1981 President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Assn
1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1981 Iran president Bani Sadr deposed
1981 Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election
1981 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1981 Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President of Ecuador, dies in air crash
1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies
1981 Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for President of France
1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III
1981 Munabi, assistant to Uganda president Obote, murdered
1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president
1981 Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
1980 Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns
1980 Upper-Volta milt coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees
1980 Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral
1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) defeats President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
1980 President nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
1980 George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86
1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1980 Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea
1980 Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president
1980 Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
1980 Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president
1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republicans in Detroit
1980 Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies
1980 John W. Davis, President (WV State college), dies at 92
1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru
1980 Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried
1980 William R Tolbert Jr, Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup
1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1980 Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton, 1993-2001
1980 Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy
1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1980 President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics
1980 Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal
1979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown
1979 Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered
1979 Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for president
1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, President Guevara flees
1979 Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
1979 President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
1979 Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees
1979 Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president
1979 Somali constitution approved by president
1979 Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
1979 Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed
1979 Agostinho Neto, poet/1st President of Angola, dies at 56
1979 President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves
1979 Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
1979 President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty
1979 South-African President Vorster resigns due to scandal
1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51
1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo
1979 Carroll D. Rosenbloom, Los Angeles Rams president, dies at 72
1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
1979 Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria
1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1978 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR
1978 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1978 President Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
1978 President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1978 Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
1978 Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares
1978 Bolivia milt coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees
1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees
1978 Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy
1978 Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed
1978 Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered
1978 Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair
1978 Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1978 Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered
1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
1978 President Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1978 President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1977 Carter holds 1st news conf by U.S. President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1977 Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1977 Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
1977 President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981
1977 President Carter meets with 15 record company execs
1977 President Carter and Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties
1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1977 President Carter establishes Department of Energy
1977 Makarios III, [Michail Mouskos], archbishop/president (Cyprus), dies at 63
1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R.
1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library
1977 U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns
1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1977 Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered
1977 U.S. president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
1977 President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights
1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1977 Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium
1977 Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament
1976 President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order
1976 Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
1976 Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
1976 Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford for president
1976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter
1976 Egypt president Sadat re-elected
1976 Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86
1976 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73
1976 President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention
1976 Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
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