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

2004 Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate

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

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

1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election

1994 Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered

1994 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election

1994 Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election

1993 Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election

1993 Nigerian presidential election

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

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

1990 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace

1989 Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years

1989 Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered

1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee

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

1986 President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta

1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election

1984 Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election

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

1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election

1983 Raul Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election

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

1982 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep

1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election

1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides

1973 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"

1973 Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

1970 Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile

1968 Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign

1967 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified

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

1961 George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser, Clinton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1956 Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate

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

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

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

1954 Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election

1952 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate

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

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

1947 President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act

1944 Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race

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

1939 Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary

1938 Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate 1992

1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

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

1933 German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested

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

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

1931 Charles W. Colson, presidential adviser, Watergate figure

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

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

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

1924 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken

1924 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)

1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech

1923 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (President Calvin Coolidge)

1923 Robert J Dole, Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95, /presidential candidate, R-1996

1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)

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

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

1886 Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate

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

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

1877 Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden

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

1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate

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

1870 Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser, Cold War

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

1866 U.S. Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US

1855 Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate

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

1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate

1843 Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate

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

1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan

1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto

1792 U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed

1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration

1786 Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate



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