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2006 Samuel Alito sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua

1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay

1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg

1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal

1994 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curaeao

1994 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St. Maarten

1994 Stephen G. Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1994 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia

1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president

1994 Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary

1994 Roman Herzog sworn in as German president

1994 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president

1994 Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium

1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan

1991 Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep

1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president

1991 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala

1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president

1990 David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil

1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay

1990 David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of New York City

1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India

1989 Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece

1989 FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa

1988 Anthony M. Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1988 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname

1986 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court

1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in

1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda

1986 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)

1985 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru

1984 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner

1983 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy

1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor

1982 Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon

1982 George P. Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs

1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina

1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president

1980 Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran

1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM

1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy

1975 South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30

1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as Secretary of State

1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)

1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy

1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1971 Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi

1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico

1970 Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt

1970 Harry A. Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1969 Warren E. Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice

1969 Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France

1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister

1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice

1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil

1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa

1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president

1963 George C. Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black

1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)

1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina

1955 1st West German officers sworn in

1953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president

1953 Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of U.S.

1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy

1947 James Forrestal sworn in as 1st U.S. secretary of defense

1945 Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres

1940 Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army

1935 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in

1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas gov, nation's 2nd woman governor

1922 Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator

1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California

1896 Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister

1881 Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president

1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president

1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman

1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps

1870 Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)

1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. VP

1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president

1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. VP (9 days before Washington)

1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi)

1747 Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth

1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen

1707 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland

1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"

1653 Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector

1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland

1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland

1625 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand

1609 Pieter Both sworn in as 1st Governor-General of East Indies



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