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2013 Event - All living former U.S. Presidents, including George W. Bush and current President Barack Obama, are present for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas

2013 Event - Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of Kenya's Presidential election by the Supreme Court of Kenya

2013 Event - The running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, claims that votes cast in Kenya's presidential election have been falsified

2013 Event - In Greece, Nicos Anastasiades, leader of Cyprus's main opposition Disy party, wins the Presidential race

2012 Event - In Egypt, one hundred thousand people gather around the Presidential palace to protest proposed constitutional changes by Mohamed Morsi, the President of Egypt

2012 Event - U.S. voters hold their 2012 presidential election, with Democratic President Barack Obama projected to defeat Republican opponent, Governor Mitt Romney

2012 Event - Former U.S. Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern dies at age 90 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

2012 Event - Venezuelans go to the polls to vote in the country's presidential election; President Hugo Chavez competes against Henrique Capriles Radonski of the opposing Justice First party

2012 Event - Former U.S. Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty resigns from Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, planning instead to work for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney states the Palestinians are committed to destroying Israel

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed

2012 Event - President Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination as candiate for the 2102 Presidential election

2012 Event - The winner of Mexico's presidential elections is Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

2012 Event - At the National Convention in Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Republican Party nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - The Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney names Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Congressman, as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the November 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - Egypt's voters go to the polls for a second round of voting in their first presidential election

2012 Event - Fifteen months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in Egypt by a revolution, voters go to the polls for a presidential election

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August

2012 Event - In the second round of the French presidential election Francois Hollande is elected President of France

2012 Event - 2012 U.S. presidential candiate, Newt Gingrich suspends his campaign for the Republican nomination

2012 Event - The trial over illegal use of campaign funds by U.S. Presidential candidate John Edwards begins in North Carolina

2012 Event - In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood nominates chairman Khairat El-Shater as a candidate for the May 2012 presidential elections

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum wins the caucuses in the state of Louisiana

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins caucuses in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wyoming

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the caucus in Washington state

2012 Event - Senegalese voters go to the polls for Senegal's presidential election, which has been marked by controversy and violence

2012 Event - In the Finnish Presidential election, conservative candidate Sauli Niinisto wins in a landslide

2012 Event - Finland holds the first round of its Presidential election

2012 Event - 2012 Republican Party Presidential primary candidate Jon Huntsman drops out of the race, endorsing Mitt Romney

2012 Event - U.S. 2012 Presidential contender Mitt Romney wins the New Hampshire Republican primary; Ron Paul places second, Jon Huntsman places third

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the 2012 Iowa Caucus by 8 votes over Rick Santorum

2011 Event - In Georgia's region of South Ossetia, voters go to the polls for a presidential election and referendum

2011 Event - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts a proposal from President Dmitry Medvedev to run in Russia's 2012 Presidential election

2011 Event - Tony Tan Keng Yam wins Singapore's presidential election, becoming President-elect

2011 Event - Singapore holds a presidential election; voters head to the polls

2011 Event - 2012 Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty withdraws from his campaign to win the Republican Party nomination

2011 Event - The Ames Straw Poll for 2012 Presidential election candidates is taken; Michele Bachmann is the winner

2011 Event - Former North Carolina Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate John Edwards is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws

2011 Event - Nigeria's presidential election, held April 16, 2011, declares the winner is President Goodluck Jonathan

2011 Event - Nigeria holds a presidential election

2011 Event - Kazakhstan holds a presidential election; President Nursultan Nazarbayev wins 95% of the vote

2011 Event - Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi announces he will leave politics soon after the Presidential elections are held

2010 Event - In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko claims he won the presidential election with 79% of the vote; hundreds protesting the vote were arrested

2010 Event - While world leaders back Africa's Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast presidential election winner, a swearing-in ceremony is held for Laurent Gbagbo in Cote D'Ivoire

2010 Event - Rival political parties clash in Guinea ahead of a presidential run-off election; at least 24 people are injured

2010 Event - Two days after Rwanda's presidential election, Kigali, Rwanda reports that a grenade attack occurred during rush hour

2010 Event - Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010

2010 Event - Tens of thousands of Poles line the streets to witness the procession of President Kaczynski, en route to the Presidential Palace, Warsaw, where he will lie in state

2010 Event - Viktor Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine's presidential election

2010 Event - United States Navy troops land near the Haitian presidential palace, bringing food, water, and equipment to aid victims of the earthquake

2009 Death - Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies

2007 Event - Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential election

2004 Event - The Republican party nominates George W. Bush as its presidential candidate

2004 Event - Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate

2001 Death - Harold Stassen, perennial presidential candidate/politician, resigned as governor of Minnesota to enlist for WWII, dies at 93

2000 Event - Al Gore concedes presidential election, George W. Bush named president

1998 Death - Barry Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-R-Arizona 1953 - 1965, 1969 - 1987, Republican Presidential candidate 1964, dies at 89 from a stroke

1996 Event - Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican Vice Presidential running mate

1995 Event - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election

1994 Death - Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered

1994 Event - Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election

1994 Event - Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election

1993 Event - Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election

1993 Event - Nigerian presidential election

1992 Event - Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush

1992 Event - 1st 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)

1990 Event - United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace

1989 Event - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years

1989 Death - Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered

1988 Event - Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee

1987 Event - Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race due to Donna Rice affair

1986 Event - President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta

1986 Event - Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election

1984 Event - Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election

1984 Event - Geraldine Ferraro, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, wins Democratic Vice Presidential nomination

1984 Event - Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco

1984 Event - Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party Vice Presidential candidate

1984 Event - Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election

1984 Death - Glen H Taylor, U.S. senator/Vice Presidential candidate (1948), dies at 80

1984 Death - Rosser Reeves, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby, dies

1983 Event - Raul Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election

1983 Event - U.S. Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions

1982 Event - Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep

1976 Birthday - Vanessa Kerry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, medical resident, daughter of John Kerry, campaigned with her father in the 2004 Presidential election

1974 Event - Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election

1974 Event - Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides

1973 Event - Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"

1973 Event - Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

1972 Event - Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate

1970 Event - Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile

1968 Event - Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign

1967 Event - 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified

1967 Event - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect

1961 Birthday - George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser, Clinton

1961 Event - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (John F. Kennedy)

1960 Event - John F. Kennedy and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (New York City)

1960 Event - 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in NY

1960 Event - John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate

1960 Event - U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate

1960 Event - U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate

1960 Event - John F. Kennedy makes missile gap the presidential campaign issue

1956 Birthday - James Talent, born in Des Peres, Missouri, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Missouri, senior advisor to Mitt Romney's 2008 Presidential campaign

1956 Event - Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate

1955 Event - 1st presidential news conference on network TV, Eisenhower on ABC

1955 Event - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)

1954 Event - Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened

1954 Event - Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election

1953 Birthday - John Edwards, born in Seneca, South Carolina, politician, 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Presidential candidate, 2008, U.S. Senator from North Carolina

1952 Event - General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate

1952 Birthday - Nancy Lord, Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate 1992

1949 Event - Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)

1947 Event - 1st Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman

1947 Event - President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act

1944 Event - Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race

1941 Birthday - Jesse Jackson, born in Greenville, South Carolina, clergyman/presidential candidate, D

1939 Birthday - Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary

1938 Birthday - Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate 1992

1936 Event - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

1935 Birthday - Geraldine Ferraro, born in Newburgh, New York, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, 1st female Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1984

1933 Birthday - Michael S Dukakis, Gov-D-Mass, presidential candidate, D-1988

1933 Event - German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested

1933 Event - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20

1932 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

1931 Birthday - Charles W. Colson, presidential adviser, Watergate figure

1929 Birthday - Thomas Eagleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Senator-D-Missouri 1968 - 1986 and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1972

1928 Birthday - Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor, John F. Kennedy, author, 1000 Days

1927 Event - Nicaragua agrees to a U.S. supervised presidential election in 1928

1926 Birthday - Alan Greenspan, economist and presidential advisor, Federal Reserve Bank

1924 Event - 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken

1923 Birthday - Charlton Heston, born in Illinois, American actor in film, theater, television, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

1923 Birthday - Robert J Dole, Sen-R Kansas, 1969 - 1995, presidential candidate, R-1996

1921 Birthday - Lloyd Bentsen, born in Mission, Texas, Senator-D-Texas 1971 - 1993, 1989 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee

1915 Birthday - Sargent Shriver, Maryland, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, 1972, directed Peace Corp

1914 Birthday - Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

1913 Event - 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)

1912 Birthday - Virginia Lacy Jones, U.S. librarian/presidential advisor

1910 Birthday - Rosser Reeves, born in Danville, Virginia, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby

1909 Birthday - Barry Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-R-Arizona 1953 - 1965, 1969 - 1987, Republican Presidential candidate 1964

1906 Birthday - Curtis E Le May, air force general/Vice Presidential candidate

1892 Birthday - Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate, R-1940, author, One World

1886 Birthday - Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate

1884 Event - William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected"

1877 Event - U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election

1877 Event - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden

1876 Event - President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)

1876 Event - Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate

1876 Event - Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a U.S. presidential convention

1870 Birthday - Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser, Cold War

1868 Event - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)

1855 Birthday - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate

1845 Event - 1st time, U.S. Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto

1844 Event - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate

1843 Event - Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate

1824 Event - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams

1792 Event - George Washington casts 1st presidential veto

1792 Event - U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed

1789 Event - George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration

1786 Birthday - Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate

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