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2010 Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commands Iraq's atomic agency to start enriching uranium at a higher level
2010 U.S. President Barack Obama proposes a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 which projects a record-high budget deficit of $1.6 trillion in fiscal 2010 2010 Thousands of Venezuelan protesters demonstrate for and against President Hugo Chavez' policies surrounding energy shortages and currency revaluation 2009 President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, urges his armed forces to prepare for a possible war with Columbia 2009 U.S. Senate Committee passes healthcare reform bill, hailed as a 'critical milestone' by President Obama 2009 President Obama promises the will 'get something done this year' on healthcare reform 2009 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment 2009 Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide 2009 Peace talks witht he Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger are held by the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou 2009 Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces 2009 Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military 2009 An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur 2009 Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau 2009 Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War 2009 Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe 2009 Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States 2008 Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States 2008 Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President of the United States 2008 President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law 2008 Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan 2008 Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected 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, president, governor and actor, dies at 93 2003 Laurence Tisch, entrepreneur/philanthropist, president of 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 Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, 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, 1989-1992, 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 Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt 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 John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58 1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research 1997 Enrique Peralta Azurdia, military President of Guatemala in 1963 - 1966, 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 - 1990, executed 1996 Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds, dies at 45 in Vienna, Austria 1996 Spiro Theodore Agnew, U.S. Vice President (1969-73), dies at 77 1996 Ernesto Geisel, military president of Brazil 1974 - 1979, dies at 89 1996 Og Mandino, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine 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, Senator-R-Kansas, 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 Shin Kanemaru, Vice President of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81 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 1996 Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94 1995 Nello Celio, president of Switzerland (1972), dies at 81 1995 Nancy LaMott, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, dies at 43 1995 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated 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 Carlos Menem, Jr., son of Argentine president, dies at 26 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 - 1987, 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 Joseph H Hazen, U.S. producer/Vice President (Warner Bros), dies at 96 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 U.S. 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 Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% 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 East Germany (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, Prime Minister 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 Military 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 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi president/Sylvie Kinigi, PM 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 Isaac Rojas, Vice President of Argentina (1955-58), dies 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 Tipper Gore (wife of future Vice President) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink 1992 Vice President 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 New Zealand (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 West Germany 1979 - 1984, 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 Reverend 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, Czechoslovakian 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 Dr. 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 Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson 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 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 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president 1989 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns 1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India 1989 U.S.S.R. President Mikhail 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 Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson 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 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 Yankees' 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 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President 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 General 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 Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair 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 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari 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 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) 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 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled 1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia 1986 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela 1986 Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71 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 Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president 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 U.S. 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 Admiral 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 Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R) 1984 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa 1984 Joe Cronin, shortstop and American League President, dies at 77 1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project 1984 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and Vice President 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 Lauren Bush, born in Houston, Texas, fashion model, environmentalist, niece, President George W. Bush 1984 President Reagan visits China 1984 General 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 Brigadier General 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 Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR 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 Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery 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 Field Marshal/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 General 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 National Geographic Society, dies at 80 1982 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed 1982 Guatemala military coup under General 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 Netherlands 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/general 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 Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, 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 Association 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 Jonny Lang, born in Fargo, North Dakota, born Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr., singer, songwriter, guitarist, rock, gospel, blues musician, plays Benedict guitars, Fender Telecaster Thinline, voice sounds like veteran blues singer, toured with Sting, performed for President Bill Clinton 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 military 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 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay 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 Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president 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 General 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 Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President and (4 time Governor-R-New York), dies at 70 1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday 1978 Houari Boumediene, Algerian president, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53 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 military 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 Vice President Walter F. Mondale begins trip to Mid-East 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 Hubert Humphrey, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969, dies at 66 in Waverly, Minnesota 1978 President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909 1977 Carter holds 1st news conference 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 executives 1977 President Carter and General 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 Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ 1976 1st debate of major-ticket Vice President nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R) 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 1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City 1976 Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76 1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of U.S. Conference of Mayors 1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president 1976 Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves 1975 Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life 1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford 1975 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City 1975 U.S. president Gerald Ford visits China 1975 President Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped 1975 Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president 1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S. 1975 President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco California 1975 Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing 1975 Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92 1975 Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford 1975 Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman 1975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit 1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1975 Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired 1975 President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president 1975 Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967 1975 Vice President Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA 1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" 1975 South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 1975 Andre Gower, actor, Baby Makes 5, Fathers and Sons, Mr. President 1975 Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years 1975 N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies 1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer 1975 Raymond Moley, U.S. advisor to President Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88 1975 Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakian president (1957-68), dies at 70 1974 Nelson A. Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st Vice President 1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto 1974 General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal 1974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters 1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes 1974 President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation 1974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination 1974 Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered 1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president 1974 President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 1974 President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in 1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up 1974 House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon 1974 Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees 1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/president Com Palestine, dies 1974 General Pinochet becomes president of Chile 1974 Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina 1974 Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78 1974 U.S. president Nixon visits U.S.S.R. 1974 Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president 1974 Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred 1974 President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings 1974 President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House 1974 Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies 1974 Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed 1974 Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62 1974 Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president 1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns 1974 Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up 1974 Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin 1973 AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees 1973 Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL president 1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro T. Agnew 1973 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as Vice President 1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos 1973 President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate 1973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" 1973 President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline 1973 President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal 1973 Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president 1973 Arabi El Goni, Vice President/Chad parliament, murdered 1973 President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athelete of 1st century 1973 U.S. president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox 1973 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1973 Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President 1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns 1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power 1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout 1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 1973 Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65 1973 Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws 1973 Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign 1973 Walter Ulbricht, President East Germany, dies at 80 1973 Mike Burke, President (New York Yankees)/dir (Madison Square Garden), dies 1973 President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation 1973 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina 1973 Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda 1973 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" 1973 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records 1973 Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president 1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up 1973 Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president 1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election 1973 San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams 1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland 1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law 1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War 1973 Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64 1973 Lyndon B. Johnson, American President 1973 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life 1973 President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam 1972 Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea 1972 Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1945-53), dies in Kansas City, Missouri at 88 1972 Harry S. Truman, American President 1972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 1972 Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81 1972 President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) 1972 Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law 1972 President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines 1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley 1972 Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians 1972 Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out 1972 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports 1972 Chile president Allende forms new government 1972 Yugoslav president Tito visits U.S.S.R. 1972 U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow 1972 Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62 1972 Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President 1972 Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered 1972 Heinrich Lubke, West Germany president (1959-69), dies at 77 1972 "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 5 performances 1972 "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 5 performances 1972 General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia 1972 Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep 1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China 1972 President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing 1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. president to visit China 1972 President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China 1972 President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time 1972 Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier 1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle 1971 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns 1971 President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term 1971 Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE 1971 West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev 1971 Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out 1971 President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents 1971 Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan 1971 President Nixon announces he would visit China 1971 Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi 1971 Andre President, tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles 1971 President Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus 1971 William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76 1971 President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China 1971 President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free 1971 Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines 1971 Thomas E Dewey, U.S. president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68 1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president 1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria 1971 General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda 1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2 1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate 1971 "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 72 performances 1970 President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines 1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico 1970 Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60 1970 Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 1970 "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 72 performances 1970 President Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam 1970 Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile 1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 1970 Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt 1970 Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar 1970 Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt President (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52 1970 President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses 1970 Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands 1970 Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador 1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18 1970 Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68 1970 Argentine military junta under Lieutenant-general Lanusse drives out President Ongania 1970 H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies 1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies 1970 Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, dies 1970 President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on January 1, 1971 1970 U.S. president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine" 1970 David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96 1970 Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered 1970 Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League 1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 1969 Kliment J Voroshilov, president U.S.S.R. (1953-60), dies 1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon 1969 West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands 1969 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias and distortion 1969 Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium 1969 Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali 1969 Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered 1969 Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam 1969 Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59 1969 Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Ta't-Tanh, North Vietnamese president, dies at 79 1969 George Preston Marshall, NFL president for the Washington Redskins, dies at 72 1969 President Nixon visits Romania 1969 Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France 1969 Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France 1969 South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse 1969 Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president 1969 Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55 1969 U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany 1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin 1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins 1969 Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered 1969 Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as president 1969 U.S. Congress doubles president salary 1968 President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power 1968 President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor 1968 Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela 1968 Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees 1968 Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted 1968 Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey 1968 Nixon (R) beats Vice President Humphrey (D) and George C. Wallace for presidency 1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam 1968 China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji 1968 Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru 1968 Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees 1968 Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago) 1968 Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague 1968 Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague 1968 Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for president 1968 Don Lillis, NFL president for the New York Jets 1968 Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms 1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament 1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1968 Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president 1968 President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia 1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia 1968 Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus 1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one 1968 Former Vice President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for presidency 1968 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia 1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania 1967 Robert McNamara elected president of World bank 1967 Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies 1967 Yemen president Sallal flees 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep 1967 Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive Vice President of A's by Charlie Finley 1967 Amy Carter, President Carter's daughter/peace activist 1967 French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution 1967 Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies 1967 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-87), dies at 66 1967 Oskar Maria Graf, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels, dies at 72 in New York 1967 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-67), dies at 66 1967 Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel 1967 Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India 1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua 1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank 1967 General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo 1967 Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44 1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil 1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority 1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1967 Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua 1966 President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president 1966 Malawi becomes a republic, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president 1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic 1966 Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed 1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana 1966 Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution 1966 Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90 1966 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) 1966 Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 1965 Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines 1965 French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) 1965 Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow 1965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium 1965 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R. 1965 Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown 1965 Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes President of Zaire 1965 Henry A Wallace, Vice President (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77 1965 Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President 1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines 1965 President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking 1965 Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90 1965 Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to UN/president candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies 1965 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson 1965 Bernard M Baruch, President advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94 1965 Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired 1965 Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras 1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria 1965 Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 1965 Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74 1965 East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt 1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president 1965 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63 1964 In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border 1964 President Segni of Italy resigns 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president 1964 Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zaire 1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st president of U.S. (1929-33), dies in New York at 90 1964 J Howard Frazer, USTA president, dies in office 1964 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson 1964 Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/president (1951-58), dies at 70 1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act 1964 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon 1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy 1964 Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate 1964 Barry M. Goldwater nominated for president by Republicans 1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law 1964 Otto V Kuusinen, President of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82 1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted 1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy 1964 Margaret Chase Smith, Senator-R-Maine, tries for Republican President bid 1964 Michelle Obama, born in Chicago, Illinois, maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, first African-American First Lady of the United States, husband to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, employed by Sidley Austin law firm and University of Chicago Medical Center 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty" 1964 Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1964 Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana 1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends 1963 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville 1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president 1963 John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46 1963 John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963, dies at age 46 1963 U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands 1963 Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62 1963 J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy 1963 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria 1963 Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville 1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days 1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, lives only 3 days 1963 Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina 1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria 1963 President Kennedy arrives in Rome 1963 Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru 1963 President Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland 1963 President Kennedy tours West-Europe 1963 "Mr. President" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 265 performances 1963 Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia 1963 Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer 1963 G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank 1962 President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington D.C. 1962 Rene Coty, President of France, dies at 80 1962 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69 1962 "Mr President" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 265 performances 1962 Musical, "Mr President," written by Irving Berlin, opens on Bdwy 1962 French president De Gaulle visits West Germany 1962 Failed assassination on president De Gaulle 1962 Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana 1962 President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale 1962 Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy 1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) 1962 Antonio Segni elected president of Italy 1962 Georges Pompidou becomes president of France 1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army 1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees 1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians 1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st U.S. killed 1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba 1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails 1962 Diego Martinez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 1961 Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization 1961 Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies 1961 President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) 1961 Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns 1961 Timothy Geithner, born in Brooklyn, New York, United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, served as President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, charged with directing financial crisis of December 2007 1961 ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69 1961 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Washington D.C. residents to vote for president 1961 George Weiss becomes President of New York Mets 1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party 1961 Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp 1961 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell 1960 Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast 1960 Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails 1960 John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th U.S. president 1960 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil 1960 Wilhelm Pieck, president of East Germany (1949-60), dies at 84 1960 President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo 1960 Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago 1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R. 1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 1960 South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns 1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem 1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament 1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1960 Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle 1960 French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu 1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president 1959 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus 1959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus 1959 President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs. Australia Test Cricket at Karachi 1959 Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair 1959 President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination 1959 U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris 1959 Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League 1959 Vice President Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" 1959 Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R. 1959 Heinrich Lubke elected President of West-Germany 1959 Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St. Lawrence Seaway 1959 Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland 1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua 1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament 1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR 1959 Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill 1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic 1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France 1958 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere") 1958 Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela 1958 General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan 1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958 1958 President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months 1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood 1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico 1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion 1958 Ronald Prescot Reagan, Jr., Louisiana, President son/TV host, Ron Reagon Show 1958 Rioters attack U.S. Vice President Nixon in Venezuela 1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock 1958 Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru 1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia 1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina 1958 Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America 1958 Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina 1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president with 99.9 percent of the vote 1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic 1958 Peter R Mokaba, president, South African Youth Congress 1958 Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74 1957 Hamid Karzai, born in Karz, Afghanistan, Pashtun of the Popalzai tribe, Sunni Muslim, politician, Independent Party, 12th President of Afghanistan 1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech 1957 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia 1957 Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, Vice President, Microsoft Desktop 1957 Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 72 1957 Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey 1957 President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant 1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction 1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered 1957 Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother 1957 Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower 1957 Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria 1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash 1957 NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president 1957 Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves 1957 Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57), dies at 84 1956 Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns 1956 President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 1956 Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83 1956 Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67 1956 AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners 1956 ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day 1956 President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt 1956 Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow 1956 Steve Ford, actor, Young and Restless, son of President Gerald Ford 1956 Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY 1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term 1956 Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65 1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland 1956 New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build 1956 Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil 1956 Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine 1955 AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president 1955 Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president 1955 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil 1955 President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver 1955 Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees 1955 Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria 1955 President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour 1955 1st Vice President to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon 1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Peron 1955 1st President to appear on color TV, Eisenhower 1955 John Hinckley, Jr., shot and wounded President Reagan, 1981 1955 G. Gronchi elected president of Italy 1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war 1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam 1955 Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama 1955 Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama 1952 - 1955, assassinated 1954 Aleksander Kwasniewski, born in Bialogard, Poland, served as President of Poland 1995 - 2005, post-communist socialist politician, independent party, Chairman European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation 2008 1954 Egyptian President Naguib fired/state of emergency declared 1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem 1954 Getulio D Vargas, president/dictator Brazil: 1930 - 1945, 1951 - 1954, suicide at 71 1954 President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily 1954 Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay 1954 Hugo Chavez, born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, politician, United Socialist Party, Fifth Republic Movement, President of Venezuela 1954 Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany 1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system 1954 Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala 1954 Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam 1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge 1954 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China 1954 President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China 1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die 1954 Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli 1954 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952 1954 Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism 1953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president 1953 Rene Coty elected President of France 1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters) 1953 U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi 1953 President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee 1953 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti, 1991, 1994- 1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council 1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president 1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government 1953 President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill 1953 Antonin Zapotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia 1953 Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 1953 President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple 1953 Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center 1953 James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU 1953 Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito) 1953 Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia 1953 J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club 1953 President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb 1952 Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president 1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel 1952 Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela 1952 Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77 1952 Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D) 1952 French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam 1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico 1952 General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile 1952 Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea 1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike 1952 David Pack, born in Los Angeles, California, musician, producer, Grammy-Award winning record producer for Wynnona, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Music Director for President Bill Clinton's Inaugurations, 1992 and 1996, cofounder, lead vocalist for band, Ambrosia 1952 Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president 1952 President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike 1952 Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st President of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70 1951 Nancy LaMott, born in New York City, New York, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton 1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany 1951 Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League 1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball 1951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman 1951 President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference 1951 Nicu Ceausescu, born in Romania, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds 1951 Queen Noor of Jordan, born in Washington, D.C., Lisa Najeeb Halaby, president of United World Colleges movement, fourth wife and widow to King Hussein of Jordan 1951 General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal 1951 President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany 1951 Jan Franssen, born in Hilversum, North Holland, politician, Dutch liberal political party, in 2006, named Queen's Commissioner in South Holland, previously served as city councilor, Nederhorst den Berg, President, House of Representatives 1982 - 1994, mayor of Zwolle, 1994 - 2000 1951 Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President 1951 President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms 1951 Bonnie Lauer, born in America, professional golfer, won National Collegiate Championship playing for Michigan State University, won 2 LPGA Tours, served as 1988 LPGA President 1950 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80 1950 Ieremia Tabai, President of Kiribati, Gilbert Islands, 1979-91 1950 U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb 1950 South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions 1950 U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat 1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala 1950 Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as Vice President/General Manager of Pittsburgh Pirates 1950 Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis 1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House 1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead 1950 Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president 1950 Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia 1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike 1950 President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia 1950 President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai 1950 President Truman promises aid to Taiwan 1950 President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence 1950 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey 1950 Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia 1950 President Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government 1950 Itumeleng J Mosala, South Africa president, Azanian People's Org 1950 Michael Ford, son of President Gerald and Betty Ford 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1950 Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland 1950 President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb 1949 Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier 1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France 1949 President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents 1949 Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of East Germany 1949 President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) 1949 Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany 1949 Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death 1949 Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, 1990-92 1949 Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan, 1989-93 1949 Marilyn Quayle, wife of vice president Dan Quayle, 1989-93 1949 Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru, 1985-90 1949 Mary Maples Dunn, college president, Smith College 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president 1949 Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel 1949 President Truman announces his point 4 program 1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" 1948 President Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey 1948 Eduard Benesj, president Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48), dies 1948 Tipper Gore, wife of vice president Al Gore, 1993-01 1948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York 1948 President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces 1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President 1948 Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea 1948 President Truman nominated for another term 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia 1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns 1948 Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel 1948 Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy 1948 Walter P Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit 1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1948 Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home 1948 Al Gore, born in Washington D.C., Senator-D-Tennessee, 1985 - 1992, 45th Vice President 1993 - 2000 1948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1948 U.S. president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan 1947 Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador, 1989-94 1947 Bechir Gemayel, President Lebanon, 8/23-9/14, 1982 1947 Aleksandr V Rutskoi, Ukrainian Hero of U.S.S.R./Vice President, 1991- 1947 President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert 1947 President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act 1947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson 1947 President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act 1947 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62 1947 Emil Hacha, lawyer/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 74 1947 David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight, married Julie Nixon 1947 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, president, Colombia, 1990-94 1947 Daphne Todd, president, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty 1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States 1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland 1947 Vincent Aurial elected president of France 1946 President Truman officially proclaims end of WW II 1946 Michael Ovitz, president, Walt Disney Co 1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub 1946 President Truman ends wage/price freeze 1946 Charles S. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University 1946 Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China 1946 President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine 1946 William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, 42nd U.S. President, D, 1993-01 1946 William J. Clinton, American President 1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 1946 President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces 1946 George W. Bush, two-term American president 2000-2008 1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy 1946 Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60 1946 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike 1946 Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president, Mexico, 1988 - 1994 1946 Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of U.S.S.R. 1946 Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam 1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president 1946 U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency 1946 Tod Brannan, Vice President, Logos Network Corp 1945 Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua, 1984-90 1945 Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women 1945 President Truman ends Lend-Lease program 1945 President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter 1945 Jewell Jackson McCabe, President, national coaltion of 100 black women 1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom 1945 Alan Dukes, Irish president, Fine Gael 1945 Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd president 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President 1945 Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42 1945 President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court 1945 Andrew Stein, President of New York City council, D 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president 1945 Frank J Biondi, Jr., president, HBO 1945 Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY 1944 M N Aubrey Mokoape, South Africa's Vice President, Azanian People Org 1944 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, President of Philippines (1935-42), dies at 65 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention 1944 Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China 1944 Mary Robinson, President of Republic of Ireland, Labour, 1990- 1944 Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer, Good night mister president 1943 Tarja Halonen, born in Kallio, Finland, politician, lawyer, Social Democratic Party, first female President of Finland 1943 Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US 1943 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu 1943 Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/president Jose Laurel) 1943 Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China 1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China 1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president 1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S. 1943 Yoran Ben Ami, born in Israel, producer/president, Triumph Pictures 1943 Faye Wattleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sociologist/president, Planned Parenthood 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime 1943 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) 1943 Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies 1943 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco 1943 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 1942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, president of Guatemala, 1986-91 1942 Joe McGinniss, Rye, New York, author, Selling of President 1968 1942 Joe Biden, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Senator-D-Delaware 1973 - 2009, 47th Vice President of the U.S. 1942 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French 1942 Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers 1942 John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to President, Botha/De Klerk 1942 Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau 1942 President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. 1942 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatoriaal Guinee, 1979- 1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73 1942 Kim Il Jong, son of North Korean President Kim Il Sung, 1972-94 1942 Kim Chong-Il, Yura, president of North-Korea, 1994- 1942 Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, President of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63 1941 Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies 1941 Jeremiah Wright, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pastor Emeritus, former Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, 8,500 member megachurch, former pastor of President Obama, known for politically charged, controversial sermons 1941 Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica, 1986-, Nobel 1987 1941 Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria, 1985- 1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 1941 U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act 1941 Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society 1941 Dick Cheney, born in Lincoln Nebraska, Representative-R-Wyoming 1979 - 1989, George H. W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, 1989 - 1993, vice president 2001 - 2009 1940 Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected president 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R) 1940 Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish Prime Minister 1932 - 1934, President 1936 - 1939, dies at 60 1939 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives, 1978- 1939 Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73 1939 Joaquim Chissano, president of Mozambique, 1986- 1939 Leon Britain, vice president, Commission of European Communities 1939 Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president, Childrens Defense Fund 1939 Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president 1939 Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59 1939 Hugh Dykes, born in England, served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East, member of the European Parliament, Vice President of the British-German Association 1939 Albert Lebrun elected president of France 1939 Alan Rothenberg, U.S. Soccer President, 1990- 1939 Eleanor Smeal, feminist/president, NOW 1939 Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert 1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president 1938 Kemal Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, general/president Turkey, dies at 57 1938 Niara Sudarkasa, Gloria M Clark, educator/president, Lincoln College 1938 Leonid Kuchma, born in Chaikyne, Ukraine, statesman, politician, President of independent Ukraine 1994 - 2005 1938 Alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru, 1990- 1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire 1938 Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/president, Beaumont College 1938 A Bartlett Giamatti, born in Boston, President of Yale and baseball commissioner, 1989 1938 A. J. Bellingham, president, Royal College of Pathologists 1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies 1938 Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University 1938 Kathleen Richardson, president, Methodist Conference 1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank 1937 Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 1937 Tomas G. Masaryk, philosopher/president of Czechoslovakian 1918 - 1935, dies at 87 1937 Sandy Stewart, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, singer, Sing Along With Mitch, Mr. President 1937 Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies 1937 Jacques Santer, President, European Commission 1937 Saddam Hussein, At-Takriti, president of Iraq, 1979 - 2003 1937 Billy Carter, Plains Georgia, brother of President Carter 1937 Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda, 1973-94 1937 David Ward, president, Law Society 1937 Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president, Sierra Leone 1937 Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua 1936 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua 1936 Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar 1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon 1936 Johnnetta B. Cole, educator and president Spellman College 1936 Vaclav Havel, writer/president Czechoslovakia, 1989-92 1936 Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president, Law Society 1936 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia, 1987- 1936 Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College 1936 Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power 1936 R. Ronald Venetian, president Suriname, 1991- 1936 Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party 1936 Manuel Azana elected president of Spain 1936 Michael Livesay, British admiral and president, RN College Greenwich 1936 Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru, writer, Aunt Julia, and President candidate 1936 Philip Ely, president, British Law Society 1936 Ron Carey, union President, Teamsters 1936 John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 1936 A flag is authorized for Vice President 1936 Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president 1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants 1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America 1936 Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, president of Uruguay, 1985-90, 95- 1936 Charles A Stoneham, President (New York Giants), dies 1935 Omar Bongo, born in Lewai, French Equatorial Africa, now Bongoville, Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, Albert-Bernard Bongo, statesman, Gabonese Democratic Party, President of Gabon at age 31 1935 Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia 1935 France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles, 1977- 1935 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines 1935 Abdou Diouf, president of Senegal, 1981- 1935 Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador 1935 Trevor Chinn, born in England, businessman, CEO, Lex Garages, entrepreneur, philanthropist, President, the Joint Israel Appeal 1935 Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance, PvdA, President, Nethche Bank 1935 Zhelyu Zhelev, president of Bulgaria, 1990- 1935 Gillian Beer, professor/president, Clare Hall-Cambridge 1935 President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey" 1934 Bob Martinez, born in America, served as Mayor of Tampa, Florida and 40th Governor of Florida, initiated Preservation 2000, America's largest environmental land acquisition program, appointed Drug Czar by President George H.W. Bush 1934 Ford Frick becomes president of baseball's National League 1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president 1934 Umberto Agnelli, Vice President, Fiat 1934 Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 1934 Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal 1934 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia 1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico 1934 Leslie Turnberg, president, Royal College of Physicians 1934 Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia 1934 John A. Ziegler, Jr., Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 4th NHL President, 1977-92 1934 Bill White, U.S., 1st baseman, Cards, announcer, Yankees, President, NL 1934 Carla Hills, politician, U.S. President Commission on Housing-1982 1933 Brazilians president Getulio Vargas names himself dictator 1933 Michael S Dukakis, Gov-D-Mass, 1988 President Candidate 1933 Samora Machel, president Mocambique, 1975-86 1933 Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista 1933 Ann Richards, born in Lakeview, Texas, American politician, Democrat, Governor of Texas, second female governor of Texas, defeated for re-election by future U.S. President George W. Bush 1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power 1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza 1933 Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." 1933 German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion 1933 Paul Biya, president of Cameroon since 1982 1933 20th Amendment goes into effect: President term begins in Jan not March 1933 President von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament 1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press 1933 German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor 1933 Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines, 1986-92 1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60 1932 Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea, 1988-93 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time 1932 Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti, 1986-88 1932 Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded 1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment 1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death 1932 President Hoover cuts own salary 15% 1932 New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago 1932 President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention 1932 Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile 1932 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France 1932 Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov 1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week 1932 Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts 1932 F. W. de Klerk, president South Africa, 1989-94 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland 1932 Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party, CDA 1931 Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China 1931 Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain 1931 Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile 1931 Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out 1931 Lawrence K. Grossman, News president, NBC-TV 1931 George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus, 1988-93 1931 Paul Doumer elected president of France 1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president 1931 Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland 1931 Isabel Peron, Maria Martinez, dancer/president Argentina 1931 Boris Yeltsin, born in Russia, first President of the Russian Federation, endorsed free market economies 1930 Joseph-Desire Kuku NWZA Mobutu Sese Seko, president Zaire, 1965- 1930 Hafez al Assad, president, Syria 1930 William H Taft, 27th U.S. President (1909-13), dies 1930 Carl Barger, Lewistown Pennsylvania, baseball President, Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins 1930 William H Taft, U.S. president (1909-13), dies 1930 Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina, 1989- 1930 Vigdis Finnbogadottir, president of Iceland, 1980- 1930 Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College, Oxford 1930 David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland 1930 Derek Bok, college president, Harvard 1930 Pat Robertson, televangelist, 700 club, President candidate-R-1989 1930 President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington 1930 William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. President (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72 1930 Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists 1930 Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier and president, Sudan 1929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president 1929 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 1929 Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece 1929 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico 1929 Severn Darden, actor, Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th 1929 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua, 1990- 1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war 1929 President Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I 1929 Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy, 1985- 1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam 1929 Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology 1929 Harvey Lichtenstein, President, Brooklyn Academy of Music 1929 Hugh Desmond Hoyte, president, Guyana, 1985-92 1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President 1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president 1929 President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park 1929 Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama 1929 27 year old William S. Paley becomes CBS president 1928 John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea 1928 NL President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers 1928 MW Miklas elected president of Austria 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) elected president 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E. Smith (D) for president 1928 Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua 1928 President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism" 1928 Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA, Angola 1928 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China 1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated 1928 Evan G. Galbraith, born in Ohio, United States Ambassador to France under President Ronald Regan, investment banker 1928 Alfred E. Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention 1928 Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president, 1981- 1928 Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/president, l'ASIFA 1928 Robert Mugabe, president, Zimbabwe, 1988- 1928 Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College-Oxford 1928 Alan J. Pakula, director, All the President's Men, Klute 1928 Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82 1928 Fidel V Ramos, President, Phillipines 1928 Walter Fritz Mondale, born in Ceylon, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1964 - 1976, 42nd Vice President, 1977 - 1981 1928 Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier, Pakistan 1927 M Lawrence Antouin, college president, Emeritis 1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president 1927 Houari Boumedienne, president of Algeria, 1965-78 1927 John Warr, England, cricket bowler, avg 281, president, MCC 1927 Simone Veil, President European parliament, France 1927 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated 1927 Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/president candidate, Smothers Bros Show 1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president 1927 Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president 1927 Raul Alfonsin, president, Argentina 1927 Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department 1927 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC) 1927 President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference 1927 NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants 1927 Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras, 1986-90 1926 Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece 1926 Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92 1926 Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos 1926 Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/president, Laura Ashley 1926 Don Carter, bowling great, 1st PBA president 1926 Ralph D Abernathy, U.S., president, SCLC 1926 Symon Petljoera, President Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris 1926 Mordecai W. Johnson becomes president of Howard University 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland 1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup 1926 Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union 1926 Robin Cooke, President, New Zealand Court of Appeal 1926 Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president 1926 Raul Alfonsin, Argentine President, 1983-89 1926 Valery Giscard d'Estaing, President of France, 1974-81 1925 Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua, 1967..79 1925 Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador 1925 Charles Haughey, Irish president, 1979-81, 82, 87-92 1925 Ed McKeever, President (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia 1925 Idi Amin, born in Uganda, military dictator, president of Uganda, assumed role of Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, attempted to annex Kagera, Tanzania 1925 Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania, 1985- 1925 Charles Ebbets, Dodgers President, dies 1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58 1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations 1925 Al Rosen, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 3rd baseman, AL MVP 1953, N.Y. Yankee president 1925 Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies 1925 Hal Holbrook, born in Cleveland, actor, All the President's Men, Mark Twain 1925 Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola 1925 Fred Catherwood, born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, politician, writer, Conservative member of the European Parliament, president of Evangelical Alliance 1925 Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu 1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president 1924 Mokta Ould Daddah, president Mauritania, 1961-78 1924 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president 1924 Calles becomes president of Mexico 1924 U.S. president Calvin Coolidge re-elected 1924 Shirley Chisholm, D-Rep-NY, 1st black congresswoman/president candidate 1924 President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument 1924 Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia, D, 39th President, 1977-1981 1924 General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico 1924 Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia 1924 Phyllis Schlafly, St. Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president 1924 Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka, 1989-93 1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party 1924 George H. W. Bush, Massachusetts, 43rd Vice President 1981 - 1989, 41st President 1989 - 1993 1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC 1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration 1924 Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president, Gambia, 1970-94 1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece 1924 Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president, Zambia, 1964-91 1924 Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-21), dies 1924 Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe 1924 Margaret Truman, born in Missouri, singer, writer, only daughter of President Harry and Bess Truman 1924 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) 1924 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67 1924 Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/president, California State University at Fullerton 1923 Lucas M Mangope, 1st president of Bophuthatswana, 1977-94 1923 Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine 1923 Mauno Koivisto, president of Finland, 1982-94 1923 Jacob T Cremer, President (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76 1923 Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president 1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding 1923 V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president 1923 Warren Harding, 29th President (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel San Francisco at 57 1923 Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) 1923 Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90 1923 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated 1923 Gerald Gotting, East Germany president, CDU 1923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Organization, 1955-79 1923 Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president, 1965-75 1923 President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes 1923 Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president, Wolfson at Oxford 1923 Christy Mathewson becomes President of Boston Braves 1923 Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton, Illinois, banker, President of World Bank 1923 Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC, Taiwan, head of KMT, 1988- 1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president 1922 Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua, 1956-63 1922 Norodom Sihanouk, king/president/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA 1922 Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela, 1974-79/89-94 1922 German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 1922 President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 1922 President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem 1922 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies 1922 George McGovern, born in Avon, South Dakota, Representative-D-South Dakota 1957 - 1961, Senator-D-South Dakota 1963 - 1981, Democratic President candidate 1972 1922 President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore 1922 German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich 1922 William Manchester, born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, historian, Death of a President 1922 Arnold Burgen, college president, Academia Europaea 1922 Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO 1922 Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico 1922 Ahmed Sekou Toure, president of Guinea, 1957-84 1921 Dobrica Cosic, born in Velika Drenova, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Serbia, writer, political, national theorist, first president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992 - 1993, called 'Father of the Nation' 1921 President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes 1921 President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary) 1921 Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia, 1986-90 1921 Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system 1921 Patrick Howard-Dobson, president, Royal British Legion 1921 Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana, Bechuanaland 1921 Suharto, general/president Indonesia, 1967- 1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show 1921 Paul Daels, president, Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee 1921 Ian Todd, President, Royal College of Surgeons 1920 Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos, Pathet Lao, 1991-92 1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson 1920 Warren G. Harding elected president 1920 Warren Harding elected 29th president 1920 J K Gill, president, Saatchi and Saatchi 1920 Alexander Millerand elected president of France 1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president 1920 A's Vice President Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier 1920 Ratu Kasmisere Mara, Prime Minister of Fiji, 1960 - 1970, 1970-, President, 1994 - 1920 U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1920 Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president, Germany, 1984-94 1920 Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia 1920 Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60 1920 Paul Deschanel elected president of France 1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson 1919 Moise Tshombe, President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo, Zaire 1919 President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden 1919 President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed 1919 U.S. President Wilson hit by a heart attack 1919 President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke 1919 George C Wallace, Clio Ala, gov-D-Ala, President candidate 1919 President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate 1919 President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference 1919 Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president 1919 William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president 1919 Kingman Brewster, college president, Yale 1919 Charles Palmer, cricketer, one Test 1955, later MCC president 1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann 1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1919 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers 1919 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901 - 1909, dies in New York at 60 1918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, 1970-81, Nobel 1978 1918 Kurt Waldheim, born in Austria, Austrian diplomat, politician, Secretary-General of the U.N., ninth President of Austria 1918 Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) 1918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League 1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office 1918 Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile, 1990-94 1918 Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland 1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president 1918 Spiro Theodore Agnew, R, 39th Vice President, 1968-75, crook 1918 Chaim Herzog, president, Israel, 1983-93 1918 Chaim Herzog, Israeli president 1918 Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/president Netherlands Bank 1918 Nelson Mandela, born in Qunu, South Africa, political prisoner, ANC, President, 1994- 1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party 1918 N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad 1918 Roger de Grey, president, Royal Academy 1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal 1918 Maurice Laing, life president, John Laing 1918 President Hoover calls for "wheatless" and "meatless" days for war effort 1918 Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president, 1967-90 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, 1954-1971 1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I 1917 Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad and Tobago, 1976-87 1917 Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated 1917 Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines President, 1965-86 1917 Charles Kerruish, president, Tyndwald Isle of Man 1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family 1917 John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963 1917 Theodore Hesburgh, Syracuse, New York, president, Notre Dame 1917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1917 Jane Wyman, born in Missouri, actress, film, television, Academy Award-winner, first wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan 1916 Marthinus T Steyn, President of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59 1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president 1916 Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France, 1981-95 1916 Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 1916 Official flag of president of U.S. adopted 1916 Norman Griggs, Vice President, Building Society Association 1916 Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president, Israel 1916 U.S. president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act 1916 Eugene J. McCarthy, born in Watkins, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota, President candidate 1968 1916 Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers 1916 A. P. W. Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa 1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt 1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt 1915 Augusto Pinochet, general/president, Chile 1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st President to attend a World Series game 1915 Alexander Durie, vice president, British AA 1915 General Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies 1915 Modibo Keita, president of Mali, 1960-68 1915 Theodore H White, historian and writer, Making of President 1915 Rudolf Kirchschlager, president of Austria, 1974-86 1915 U.S. President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates 1914 Karl Carstens, German, CDU, President Germany, 1979-84 1914 Elbrige Gerry, Vice President (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70 1914 President Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality" 1914 Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe 1914 Willi Stoph, president East Germany 1914 President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day 1914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification 1914 Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela 1914 Nello Celio, Swiss president 1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti 1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law 1913 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League 1913 President Wilson says U.S. will never attack another country 1913 Huerta elected president of Mexico 1913 Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China 1913 Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala, 1951-54, ; overthrown by CIA 1913 Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, President South Afr Pan-African Congress, 1986- 1913 Makarios III, Michail Moeskos, archbishop/president Cyprus 1913 Gerald R. Ford, 41st Vice President, 1973-74, 38th President, R-1974-77 1913 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India 1913 Sanjiva Reddy, president, India 1913 William R. Tolbert, president Liberia, 1971-80 1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China 1913 President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1 1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president 1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39 1913 Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup 1913 President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico 1913 Raymond Poincare installed as president of France 1913 Raymond Poincare elected president of France 1913 Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia, 1975 - 1989 1913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President, 1968-74 1912 Heinz Galinski, President, Central council for Jews in Germany 1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and President Taft (R) 1912 Erich Honecker, Germany, President, East Germany 1912 Lord Kissin, president, GPG 1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for president 1912 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier 1912 David Brower, environmentalist/president, Sierra Club 1912 Richard D'Aeth, president, Hughes Hall Cambridge 1912 AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball 1912 Kim II Sung, President of North Korea, 1945-94 1911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China 1911 Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered 1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico 1911 Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president 1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal 1911 General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti 1911 J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president, Church and Peace 1911 Georges Pompidou, banker/premier/president France 1911 Hubert Humphrey, born in Wallace, South Dakota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969 1911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz 1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft 1911 Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society 1911 President/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends 1911 Edgar Beck, president, John Mowlem 1911 Robert Joseph Kane, born in Ithaca, New York, President of U.S. Olympic Commission, 1976 1911 Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies 1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico 1911 Sylvstre A. Guzman Fernandez, president, Dominican Republic 1911 U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras 1911 Ronald Reagan, born in Illinois, 40th President, Republican, 1981 - 1989 1911 A G Ogston, president, Trinity College-Oxford 1911 Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile, 1964-70 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 1910 Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India, 1987-92 1910 Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist, Men Around the President 1910 Diosdado Macapagal, Philippines president, 1961-65 1910 Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women 1910 Gordon B. Hinckley, born in Utah, religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1910 Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council 1910 Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico 1910 Taft is 1st President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game 1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day 1910 Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal 1910 Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek/President, 1978-88 1909 U.S. pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office 1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League 1909 U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya 1909 Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66 1909 Julio A Abraham, president, Democratic Party Bonaire 1909 John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League 1909 Souphanouvong, Red Prince, president of Laos, 1975-87 1909 Andrei Gromyko, U.S.S.R., diplomat/U.S.S.R. President, 1985-89, 7/18 NS] 1909 Juan Bosch, poet/president of Dominican Republic, 1962-63 1909 Israel Durham, Phillies president dies 1909 Cecil Marley, cricketer, Jamaican batsman 1928 - 1946, WICBC president 1909 Obafemi Awolowo, born in Nigeria, President of Nigeria, 1979-83 1909 President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm 1908 Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina, 1958-62 1908 Tomas Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies 1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan 1908 Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall, Texas, D, 36th President, 1963-1969 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, American President 1908 Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73 1908 Nelson Rockefeller, American Vice President 1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, 1885 - 1889, 1893 - 1897, dies at 71 1908 Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia 1908 Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972 1908 Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela, 1945-48, 1958-64 1907 Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68 1907 Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic 1907 Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO 1907 Paul O'Dwyer, President of City Council, D-NYC 1907 Paul Mellon, U.S., oil magnate/president, Washington National Gallery of Art 1907 Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered 1907 Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan 1907 Harold Stassen, St. Paul, Minnesota, Gov-R-Minn, perennial President candidate 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day 1906 U.S. president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1906 Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama) 1906 T. Roosevelt is 1st President to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama) 1906 Alfred Whitney Griswold, born in Morristown, New Jersey, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963 1906 Joe Cronin, baseball, Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL President 1906 Leopold Sedor Senghor, poet/president of Senegal, 1960-80 1906 Junius Richard Jayawardene, president, Sri Lanka, 1978-89 1906 Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention 1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College 1906 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel 1906 Eric Mensforth, president, Westland Aircraft 1906 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi, 1964-94 1906 Eric William Fenby, composer/president, Delius Society 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in U.S. press 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake" 1906 Galo Plaza Lasso, President of Ecuador, 1948-52, head of OAS, 1968-75 1906 Bartolome Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84 1905 Emilio Medici, president Brazil, 1969-74 1905 Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory coast, 1960-93 1905 Clarence Campbell, born in Saskatchewan, 3rd NHL President, 1946-77 1904 Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakia, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68 1904 W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) 1904 James R Killian, Jr., MIT President, 1948-59 1904 S J Paul Kruger, general/president South Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78 1904 Ernesto de la Guardia, Jr., President of Panama, 1956-60 1904 Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president, U.N. General Assembly 1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message 1903 Ashley Clarke, president, Venice in Peril Fund 1903 Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco 1903 Benjamin M. Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party 1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge 1903 Nikolaj V Podgorny, President U.S.S.R., 1965-77 1903 George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83 1903 Ramon Ernesto Cruz Ucles, Honduras president, 1971-72, ; overthrown 1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1902 Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president, Netherlands Bank 1902 S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht 1902 Arturo da Costa e Silva, marshal/president of Brazil, 1967-69 1902 Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president, 1946-52 1902 Juscelino Kubitschek, president Brazil, 1955-60 1902 Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president, 20th Century Fox 1902 President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st U.S. chief executive to ride in a car 1902 Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president, J Sansbury Pics 1902 Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia, 1957-87 1902 Charles Kendall Adams, historian, educator, served as second President of Cornell University 1885 - 1892, President, University of Wisconsin 1892 - 1901, dies at age 67, in Redlands, California 1902 Jean Rey, Belgium, President of European Commission, 1967-70 1902 Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator-R, ambassador, Vice President candidate 1960 1901 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president 1901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted 1901 Arleigh Burke, born in Boulder, Colorado, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War 1901 William Samuel Paley, born in Chicago, Illinois, president and CEO of CBS, 1928-90 1901 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley 1901 President William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted 1901 President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" 1901 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, 1940-41, 49-51, 68 1901 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st President Rep South Africa, dies at 81 1901 President McKinley visits San Francisco 1901 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67 1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president 1901 Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt, 1952-54 1901 Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba, 1933-44, 1952-59 1901 Ngo Dinh Diem, president/dictator of South Vietnam, 1955-63 1900 Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession 1900 South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany 1900 South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders 1900 President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan 1900 AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace 1900 South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe 1900 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/president, 1964-67 1900 President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique 1900 Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland, 1956-81 1900 Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina, 1963-66 1900 President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin 1900 Owen Aisher, president, Marley 1900 President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris 1900 Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon 1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein 1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees 1900 Adlai E Stevenson, Gov-D-Ill, President candidate, D, 1952, 1956 1899 Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor 1899 Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice President, dies 1899 South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum 1899 Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/president, Pennsylvania State 1899 Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany 1899 Konstantijn Tsatsos, president Greece 1899 James B. Connant, chemist/college president, Yale 1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.) 1899 Francois Felix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57 1899 U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam 1899 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Vice President, JVC 1898 Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy, 1964-71 1898 Lillian Carter, President Carter's, 1977-1981, mom 1898 Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL President, 1943-46 1898 Johannes J Fouche, president South Africa 1898 Eugene R. Black, U.S., President of World Bank, 1953-62 1898 U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors 1898 Grantley H. Adams, president of Barbados 1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration 1897 Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74 1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US 1896 Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1946-53 1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president 1896 Sandro Pertini, president Italy 1896 Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society 1896 Warren Giles, baseball's National League president 1896 Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/president of Nicaragua, 1937-56 1896 Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies 1896 Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid 1895 William V S Tubman, Whig, 17th Liberian president, 1943-70 1895 Juan Peron, Argentine President, 1946 - 1955, 1973 - 1974 1895 Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP 1895 Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization 1895 John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man 1895 French president Casimir-Perier resigns 1895 Felix Faure installed as president of France 1894 Heinrich Lubke, West German president, 1959-69 1894 Rafael Nunez, president (Colombia)/writer (La fonolgia Moderna), dies 1894 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68 1894 Oskar Maria Graf, born in Berg, Germany, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels 1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president 1894 M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56 1894 Francisco H. Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general and president, 1951-58 1894 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91 1894 Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman, 1st President of UN 1893 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8 1893 Walter Ulbricht, president East Germany 1893 Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time 1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term) 1893 Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63 1893 Rutherford B Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70 1893 Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74 1893 U.S. President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy 1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected president 1892 Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines 1891 Rafael L Trujillo Molina, president/dictator of Dom Rep, 1930-61 1891 Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio 1891 Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, University of California 1891 President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco 1891 Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council 1891 Antonio Segni, premier/president, Italy 1890 Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France, 1958-69 1890 Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines, 1949-53 1890 Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison, Texas, R, 34th President, 1953 - 1961, General, WW 2 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President 1890 President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned 1890 Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957 1890 Adolf Scharf, president Austria, 1957-65 1889 President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium 1889 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States 1861 - 1865, dies at 81 1889 Enrico Celio, president, born in Switzerland 1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization 1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president 1889 President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana and Washington state 1889 Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president 1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild 1888 Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes 1888 Henry A Wallace, D/P, 33rd Vice President, 1941-45, founder Progressive Party 1888 Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President 1888 Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77 1888 Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president, India, philosopher 1888 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president 1888 Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president 1887 French president Grevy (80) resigns 1887 Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province China, President of Nationalist China 1887 Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy 1887 Alfred M Landon, R-Ks, President candidate, 1932, 1936 1887 President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois 1887 Benegal Narsing Rau, India, President of United Nations Security Council, 1950 1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president 1886 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-85), dies in New York at 56 1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland 1886 President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence 1886 Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman, President United Nations security council-1948 1885 Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office 1885 Ulysses S Grant, 18th U.S. president, dies in Mount McGregor, New York, at 63 1885 Ulysses S. Grant, American President 1885 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil, 1945-50 1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War 1885 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland, 1939-40 1884 Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia 1884 Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovakian president, Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel 1884 Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48 1884 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st President term 1884 Ismet Inonu, Moestafa Ismet, Turkish gen/premier/president 1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President 1884 Vincent Auriol, president of France, 1947-53 1884 Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist, Dona Barbara, President, 1947-48 1884 Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1921-22, 35-48 1884 Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd U.S. President, D, 1945-1953 1884 Harry S. Truman, American President 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and Governor Cleveland 1883 Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, 1930-45, 1951-54, modernizer 1883 Paul Kruger chosen president of Transvaal 1883 Alexander H Stephens, Vice President Confederate States, dies at 71 1882 Eamon DeValera, New York, President of Ireland, 1937-48, 51-54, 57-59 1882 Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged 1882 Rene Coty, born in Le Harve, France, president of France, 1953-58 1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, born in New Hyde Park, New York, 32nd President, D, 1933-1945 1881 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination 1881 Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56 1881 William J Clothier, 1st President of tennis hall of fame, U.S. Open 1906 1881 Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president 1881 James A Garfield, 20th president (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49 1881 James A. Garfield, American President 1881 President Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker 1881 Kemal Ataturk, 1st President of Rep of Turkey 1881 James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president 1881 South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire 1881 Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland, 1944-52, poet, Figur ild 1881 William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32 1881 Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president U.S.S.R., 1953-60 1880 James A. Garfield (R) elected president 1880 Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president, 1921-39 1880 William T. Cosgrave, president Irish Free state 1880 Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24 1880 Manuel Azana y Diaz, PM/president of 2nd Spanish republic, 1936-39 1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, President of 1st Soviet, 1879 French President MacMahon resigns 1879 Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education 1878 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, 1st president of Philippines, 1935-42 1878 George M. Cohan, actor/singer, Phantom President, Give My Regards to Broadway 1878 DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974) 1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield 1878 Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian President of IOC, 1925-42 1877 Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President 1877 Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president, 1924-28 1877 Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80 1877 Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies 1877 Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain, 1931-36 1877 President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends 1877 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C. 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president 1877 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory 1877 Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics 1876 U.S. Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won) 1876 President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R) 1876 Antonio L de Santa Ana, President Mexico, dies at 79 1876 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina, 1931-38 1876 President Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring 1876 Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60 1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th president, dies in Tennessee at 66 1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi 1874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, President of Nicaragua, 1932-36 1874 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant 1874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman, 1st President 1874 Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, R, 31st President, 1929-1933 1874 Herbert Hoover, American President 1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown U 1874 Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy, 1948-55 1874 Stephen Samuel Wise, U.S., President of Zionist Org of America 1874 Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74 1873 Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president, 1911-13 1873 David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th President of Mormon church 1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President 1873 President Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians 1873 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism 1873 Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president 1873 William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, 1924-52 1872 Ulysses S. Grant re-elected U.S. president 1872 Emil Hacha, lawyer/president, Czechoslovakia 1872 Calvin Coolidge, Silent Cal, Plymouth Vt, R, 30th President, 1923-29 1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president 1871 President Grant re-elected 1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus 1871 President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan 1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania 1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) 1870 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president, 1918-20, 45-50 1870 Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president Finland 1870 Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud 1870 Francisco Solano Lopez, Field Marshal/president of Paraguay 1870 George A. Smith, born in Salt Lake City Utah, 8th President of Mormon church 1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president 1870 Francisco S Lopez, President of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43 1869 Franklin Peirce, 14th president 1853 - 1857, dies in Concord, New Hampshire at 64 1869 Karl Seitz, president of Austria 1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president 1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War) 1868 John Nance Garner, D, 32nd Vice President, 1933-41 1868 Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, president of Argentina, 1922-28 1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day 1868 James Buchanan, 15th U.S. president (1857-61), dies at 77 1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote 1868 By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial 1868 U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson 1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1867 U.S. Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson 1867 President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton 1867 Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1867 President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska 1867 Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland, 1944-46 1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto 1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over 1866 Cornelis J K van Aalst, president, Dutch Trading Company 1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1866 President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia 1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment 1865 Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, R, 29th President, 1921-23 1865 Warren G. Harding, American President 1865 President Johnson paroles CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens 1865 Charles Gates Dawes, R, 30th Vice President, 1925-29, Nobel 1925 1865 Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President 1865 President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx 1865 President Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states 1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis 1865 Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1865 President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth 1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia 1865 President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball 1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president 1865 Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker and president, Bank of Java 1865 President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners 1865 Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 1st president of Finland, 1919-25 1864 Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president 1864 John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln 1864 Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies 1864 President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service 1864 CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood 1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for President by Republican Party 1863 President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters 1863 Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France, 1913..34 1863 President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot 1863 Samuel Houston, 1st President of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70 1863 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army 1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer 1863 Augusto Bernardino Leguia y Salcedo, president of Peru, 1908, 1919 1863 President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address 1863 President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful 1862 President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union 1862 President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians 1862 President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 1862 Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71 1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president 1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook New York at 79 1862 Nicholas Murray Butler, U.S., Columbia University president and pacifist, Nobel 1931 1862 Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln 1862 John Tyler, 10th U.S. President (1841-45), dies in Richmond Virginia at 71 1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president 1861 Former Vice President John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky 1861 President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy 1861 President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory 1861 President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus 1861 U.S. president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states 1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Lincoln 1861 Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president 1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office 1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Alabama 1861 Abraham Lincoln declared president 1861 Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America 1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy 1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession 1860 Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, elected 16th president 1861 - 1865 1860 Raymond Poincare, France, president/PM, 1912 1860 Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president 1860 Charles Curtis, R, 31st U.S. Vice President, 1929-33 1859 Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico, 1915-20 1859 Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator 1858 Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, R, 26th President, 1901 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize 1906 1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan 1857 Marthinus T Steyn, President of Orange-Free state, 1896-1902 1857 William Howard Taft, Cin, R, 27th President, 1909-13, chief justice 1857 Paul Doumer, Governor-Generall of Indo-China/13th President of France, 1931-32 1857 Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College 1856 Woodrow Wilson, American President 1856 Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church 1856 James Buchanan elected U.S. president 1855 Robert Marion La Follette, born in Wisconsin, President candidate, Progressive 1854 Thomas Riley Marshall, D, 28th Vice President, 1913-21 1853 William King, U.S. Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. Vice President 1852 Future president and Mrs. Rutherford B Hayes marry 1852 Franklin Pierce elected as president of U.S. 1852 Charles W. Fairbanks, R, 26th U.S. Vice President, 1905 - 1909 1851 President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France 1851 Roque Saenz Pena, President of Argentina, 1910-14 1851 David Starr Jordan, New York, biologist/university President, Leland Stanford 1851 GGeneralen Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera 1850 Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina, 1916-22, 1928-30 1850 Vice President Fillmore becomes President following Zachary Taylor's death 1850 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-50), dies in White House at 65 1850 Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of U.S. (replacing Taylor) 1850 John Munroe Longyear, U.S., capitalist/bank president 1850 Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College 1850 Tomas G. Masaryk, born in Czechoslovakia, Father/President of Czechoslovakia, 1918-35 1850 Samuel Gompers, Dutch/U.S. 1st president, American Federation of Labor 1849 Dolley Madison, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins, died at age 81 in Washington, D.C. 1849 James Knox Polk, 11th President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tennessee at 53 1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so 1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president 1849 U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended March 3rd 1848 President Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms California gold discovery 1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US 1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president 1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for president 1848 John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President 1825 - 1829, dies of a stroke at 80 1848 James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady 1847 Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president 1847 Jacob T Cremer, Minister of Colonies/president, Dutch Trading Comp 1845 Gustave Ador, union president of Austria, 1919 1845 Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th President (1828-37), dies at 78 1845 James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president 1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas 1845 Uniform U.S. election day for president and Vice President authorized 1845 Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association 1844 James K Polk elected 11th president of US 1844 U.S. President John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in New York City 1844 Garret Augustus Hobart, R, 24th U.S. Vice President, 1897-99 1843 Cornelis PJ Elout, military/president of West Sumatra, dies at 47 1843 William McKinley, Niles Ohio, R, 25th President, 1897-1901 1842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, American Home Economics Association - 1st President 1842 Letitia Tyler, President Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51 1841 William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st President to die in office, at 68 1840 William H Harrison elected president of US 1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president" 1838 Emile Loubet, premier/president of France, 1892, 1899-1906 1838 Joseph F Smith, 6th President of Mormon church 1838 John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln 1837 Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated 1837 Grover Cleveland, born in New Jersey, 22nd/24th President, 1885-89, 93-97 1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president 1837 U.S. president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas 1837 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) 1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president 1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas 1836 Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President, dies 1836 Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas 1836 James Madison, 4th U.S. President (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Virginia at 85 1835 Adlai Stevenson, D, 23rd Vice President, 1893-97 1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington D.C. 1835 Charles Kendall Adams, born in Derby, Vermont, historian, educator, served as second President of Cornell University 1885 - 1892, President, University of Wisconsin 1892 - 1901 1834 Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of U.S. 1834 Charles William Elliot, born in Boston, President of Harvard, 1869-1909 1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute 1833 Benjamin Harrison, born in North Bend, Ohio, R, 23rd President, 1889-1893 1832 John Calhoun becomes 1st Vice President to resign over differences with President Jackson 1832 Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US 1832 Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell 1832 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US 1831 Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives 1831 James A. Garfield, American President 1831 Joannis Capodistrias, President of Greece (1829-31), murdered 1831 James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73 1830 Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia 1830 Chester Alan Arthur, Fairfield Vt, R, 21st President, 1881-85 1830 Chester A. Arthur, American President 1830 Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico, 1877-1911 1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president 1829 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses 1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president 1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball 1828 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson, dies 1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US 1828 Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela 1826 Francisco S Lopez, Tiran, president of Paraguay, 1862-70 1826 John Adams, 2nd president 1797-1801, dies at 90 1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83 1825 President John Quincy Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory 1825 Paulus Kruger, President of South African Republic, 1883, Boer leader 1825 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president, 188?..94 1825 Daniel D Tompkins, 6th U.S. Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president 1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president 1824 Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president 1824 Levi Parsons Morton, R, 22nd U.S. Vice President, 1889 - 1893 1824 William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua, 1856-57 1823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine" 1823 Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 1823 Schuyler Colfax, R, 17th Vice President, 1869 - 1873 1823 President Monroe appoints 1st U.S. ambassadors to South America 1822 Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council, 1885-97 1822 Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, R, 19th President, 1877-81 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, American President 1822 Charles S Crocker, President of Central and South Pacific Railroad 1822 Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio, R, 18th president, 1869-77 1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun 1821 John Cabell Breckinridge, D, 14th U.S. Vice President, 1857 - 1861, major-general, Confederate 1820 U.S. president James Monroe re-elected 1820 James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president 1820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler, 1841-45 1819 Ann C Coleman, fiancee of President Buchanan, commits suicide 1819 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president, Republic South Africa 1819 Thomas Andrews Hendricks, D, 21st U.S. Vice President 1819 William A. Wheeler, R, 19th Vice President, 1877-81 1816 James Monroe (VA), elected 5th president, defeating Federalist Rufus King 1812 James Madison re-elected president of U.S., E Gerry vice-pres 1812 George Clinton, 4th U.S. Vice President, dies at 73 1st Vice President to, die in office 1812 Henry Wilson, R, 18th Vice President, 1873-75 1812 Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President, Confederacy 1811 Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA 1811 Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina, 1868-74 1811 President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years 1811 U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.) 1810 John McCloskey, U.S., President of St. John's College, Fordham U 1809 Hannibal Hamlin, R, 15th Vice President, 1861-65 1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia 1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes 1809 Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, R, 16th President, 1861 - 1865 1808 Andrew Johnson, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Unionist, 17th President, 1865-69 1808 James Madison elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president 1808 Jefferson Davis, born in Kentucky, President of Confederate States of America, 1861 - 1865 1807 David R Atchison, President of USA on March 3rd 1849 1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted) 1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1806 Benito Pablo Juarez, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, president of Mexico, 1858-72 1804 Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president 1804 Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro, New Hampshire, D, 14th President, 1853 - 1857 1804 Alex Hamilton, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken 1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president 1804 Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus 1802 Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary, 1849 1802 Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1801 Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C. 1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr 1800 John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House 1800 White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in 1800 Millard Fillmore, Locke, New York, Whig, 13th president, 1850-53 1799 George Washington, 1st president United States 1789 - 1797, dies at 66 1798 U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens 1797 Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France 1797 Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic, 1871-77 1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of the United States 1796 John Adams elected president 1796 George Washington's farewell address as president 1795 James Knox Polk, North Carolina, 11th President, D, 1845-1849 1794 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, 1833-36 1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 1793 President Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in U.S. 1793 Samuel Houston, 1st president of Texas, 1836-38, 1841-44 1792 George Washington re-elected U.S. president 1792 Francisco Morazan, L, president of Central America, 1830-40 1792 George Mifflin Dallas, D, 11th Vice President, 1845-49 1792 Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London 1792 Congress passes President Succession Act 1791 James Buchanan, Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, 15th U.S. president, 1857-61 1791 President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session 1790 Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler 1790 Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay, 1844-62 1790 Jose Antonio Paez, president of Venezuela 1790 John Tyler, born in Virginia, 10th President, 1841-1845 1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State 1790 President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address 1789 President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice 1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States 1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President (9 days before Washington) 1789 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and Vice President 1786 William Rufus DeVane King, D, 13th Vice President, 1853 1786 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia 1785 Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile, 1811-14 1784 Zachary Taylor, Whig, 12th President, Mar 5, 1849-July 9, 1850 1783 Hannah Hoes Van Buren, New York, wife of President Martin, 1837-41, died 1819 1782 Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, New York, D, 8th President, 1837-41 1782 John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina, Andrew Jackson's Vice President, 1825 - 1832 1781 John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled" 1773 William Henry Harrison, Virginia, Whigs, 9th President, March 4-April 4, 1841 1768 Dolley Madison, born in New Garden, North Carolina, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins 1767 John Quincy Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts, 6th President of the United States, Democrat, 1825 - 1829 1767 Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew, 1828-37, died 1828 1767 Andrew Jackson, General and 7th President, 1829-37 1758 James Monroe, Westmoreland, Virginia, D-R, 5th President, 1817-25 1756 Aaron Burr, Newark, New Jersey, D-R, 3rd U.S. Vice President, 1801-05, dueler 1751 James Madison, born in Port Conway, Virginia, D-R, 4th U.S. president, 1809-17 1744 Elbridge Gerry, DR, 5th Vice President, Massachusetts Governor, invented gerrymandering 1743 Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, D-R, 3rd President, 1801-09 1739 George Clinton, New York, D-R, 4th Vice President, 1805-12 1735 John Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts, 2nd president of the United States, 1797 - 1801 1732 George Washington, born in Virginia, 1st President, 1789 - 1797 1731 Samuel Huntington, Gov-Ct, Continental Congress president 1721 John Hanson, Maryland, 1st U.S. President under Articles of Confederation 1684 William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st President of Royal Society, dies 1673 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council 1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1577 Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies 1540 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/president of Romagna, dies at 57 1483 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney and president of Romagna |
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