President Events in History

2015 Event

• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declares that the state will no longer comply with the Oslo Accords, claiming that Israel has frequently violated the agreements, which renders them non-binding

• Swiss criminal investigators charge FIFA President Sepp Blatter with suspected fraud; 14 FIFA officials have already been arrested in the corruption scandal, but Blatter has stated that he has no knowledge of or involvement in wrongdoing

• Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledges that the country is aiding the forces of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad with military expertise and equipment; Putin states that troops may also be sent in the future to help fight against ISIL

• Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigns after a warrant is issued for his arrest on bribery charges; Vice President Alejandro Maldonado will take Perez Molina's place

• U.S. President Barack Obama restores the Native American name of Alaska's Mount McKinley, the tallest North American peak; the mountain will revert to its former name of Denali

• 90-year-old Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president, announces that he has an unspecified cancer that has spread throughout his body; the cancer was discovered during a recent liver surgery

• U.S. President Barack Obama proposes 'The Clean Power Plan' to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent of 2005 levels; the plan is more stringent than the 30% reductions proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency

• Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to address the African Union, which includes 54 nations as members; the president emphasized the importance of growing economies, reducing corruption, increasing education, and instituting democracy

• U.S. President Barack Obama speaks out in defense of the recent nuclear agreement between Iran and Western nations; the deal removes economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for reductions in its technological research and its nuclear fuel

• Philippine President Benigno Aquino announces that his nation will enter a 'visiting forces' agreement with Japan, which will allow Japanese usage of Philippine military bases for activities such as refueling

• Seth Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), resigns five days after his re-election to a fifth term; several FIFA officials were recently arrested in a corruption scandal, but Blatter has not been charged

• Myanmar President Thein Sein implements a population control law requiring women to wait three years between children; critics believe the law can be used to oppress women as well as minority religion and ethnic populations in the country

• Prince Charles shakes hands with Gerry Adams, president of the Sinn Fein party, which was formerly part of the militant Irish Republican Army; Prince Charles is the first member of the British royal family to meet him

• U.S. President Barack Obama bans the use of certain military equipment by police in the wake of recent deaths of unarmed black men by police officers; the move is meant to help communities see police as protectors rather than as an 'occupied force'

• Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian president who was the first to be democratically elected, has been given a death sentence for his role in a prison outbreak during the revolution of 2011

• Cuban President Raul Castro meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican as a gesture of gratitude for the pontiff's role in facilitating renewed diplomatic ties between Cuba the U.S.; Pope Francis will visit both countries in September

• Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi meets with U.S. President Barack Obama, focusing on the fight against ISIS militants; Obama agrees to send humanitarian aid but makes no commitment regarding military supplies or assistance

• U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro meet at the Summit of the Americas in Panama for talks aimed at thawing relations; the historic meeting marks the first interaction in decades between top leaders of the two nations

• Former General Muhammadu Buhari defeats incumbent Goodluck Jonathan to become the new President of Nigeria; Buhari won by over 2.5 million votes

• Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announces that Arab leaders will be combining their military resources to combat violence in the region; Saudi Arabia has already led joint forces in airstrikes on Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen

• Negotiations continue between Iran and a group of six nations regarding limits on Iran's nuclear program, with the end of March approaching as an initial deadline; Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expresses optimism that an agreement will be reached

• Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale calls for aid after Cyclone Pam decimates homes throughout this nation of over 60 islands, resulting in at least 8 deaths; the full impact of the Category 5 storm is not yet known

• U.S. President Barack Obama states that he did not know that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton solely used a personal email address for government business, possibly violating federal law; Clinton served under Obama for four years

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. Congress on his concerns with current negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program, portraying the deal as dangerous; U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed the speech content as 'nothing new'

• Sierra Leone Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana is entering a voluntary 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards dies of Ebola; spread of the virus has been slowing, but a recent increase in infections has led to new calls for precaution

• U.S. President Barack Obama vetoes the Keystone XL project, which would extend the existing Keystone pipeline and connect Canadian oil directly to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries; environmentalists claim the pipeline extension will add to climate change

• The Greek Parliament elects Prokopis Pavlopoulos as the nation's next president; Pavlopoulos, preferred by the SYRIZA party, was chosen over opposition party nominee Nicos Alivizatos

• A federal U.S. judge orders a halt to an executive order issued by President Barack Obama that allows approximately 5 million illegal immigrants to remain in the country; Obama expects to overcome this hurdle to implement the order as planned

• U.S. President Barack Obama will seek approval from Congress to add force in the fight against ISIS militants; the current U.S. military campaign began without Congressional approval, raising concerns that Obama exceeded the limits of his authority

• U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi make progress in the areas of defense and nuclear trade; the countries plan to cooperate on defense issues, military manufacturing initiatives and nuclear power development

• U.S. President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address, promoting free community college education, increased capital gains taxes on the rich, more paid time off for employees, and greater tax credits for the middle class

• U.S. President Barack Obama vows to veto additional sanctions proposed by Congress against Iran, citing the delicacy of international talks currently underway with the nation regarding limitations on its nuclear program

• Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, may be freed after the nation's high court overturned the sole remaining verdict against him for embezzling public funds; Mubarak has been serving his three-year prison term in a hospital due to poor health

• U.S. President Barack Obama targets three organizations and ten officials in new financial sanctions issued against North Korea in response to the recent hacking attack on Sony Pictures

2014 Event

• Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has announced his resignation; the 89-year-old president indicated after reelection in 2013 that he would retire before the end of the 7-year term

• French President Francois Hollande proposes that terminally ill patients should have the right to be sedated until death; the proposal does not suggest assisted termination of the patient's life

• The U.S. Senate intelligence committee releases its report on CIA interrogation methods after 9/11; the report found that the CIA hid many of its actions from Congress and former President George W. Bush and claims that little useful intelligence resulted

• Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk replaces Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Council

• Protests have erupted in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in other Egyptian cities after former President Hosni Mubarak was cleared of charges stemming from deaths during the 2011 demonstrations against him that led to his resignation

• Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and several former government officials have been cleared of murder charges stemming from the killing of over 200 protesters during uprisings in 2011 that resulted in Mubarak's resignation

• Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President, is re-elected as head of the Union for a Popular Movement; Sarkozy intends to pursue the presidency again in 2017

• Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he will step down when he has reached constitutional term limits; Putin has served as either president or prime minister continually since the year 2000 and may run for a final presidential term in 2018

• U.S. President Barack Obama announces plans to delay deportation of about 4 million undocumented immigrants who have lived in the country for at least 5 years and have children who are legal residents or U.S. citizens

• The U.S. and China have agreed to cut greenhouse gases, with U.S. President Barack Obama setting a goal of at least a 26 percent reduction over 2005 levels by 2025; China's Xi Jinping is making the nation�s first commitment

• After two years of hostility between Japan and China over control of certain islands in the East China Sea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Linping shake hands during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit

• U.S. President Barack Obama states his support for 'net neutrality', urging federal lawmakers to regulate internet service providers in a manner similar to utility companies in order to ensure open access to all internet users

• In light of recent separatist elections, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko seeks to nullify a law that gave greater autonomy to rebel regions; Ukraine does not recognize the election results and will hold national elections as planned in December

• Israel closes visitation to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, citing security concerns after the shooting of Israeli activist Yehudah Glick; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claims that the action is a 'declaration of war'

• Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been elected to her second term, winning with 51.6% of the vote over Aecio Neves

• Shamil Tarpischev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation, has been suspended for a year and fined $25,000 by the Women's Tennis Association Tour for making derogatory gender-based remarks about tennis champion sisters Serena and Venus Williams

• Lawyer Ron Klain has been appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama as Ebola Response Coordinator to organize government response to Ebola cases; though not medically trained, Klain has been selected for his managerial and problem-solving experience

• U.S. President Barack Obama provides authorization for military reserves to be sent to West Africa if needed to help respond to the Ebola epidemic; the president also does not see the need to ban travelers from West Africa from entering the U.S.

• Russian troops along the Ukrainian border have been ordered to withdraw to their home bases by President Vladimir Putin; the move comes ahead of meetings between Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko

• Afghan officials have signed a pact with the U.S. to maintain troops in the country beyond the end of 2014 and provide Afghanistan with funding; former Afghan President Hamid Karzai would not sign the agreement due to his opposition to U.S. presence

• Ashraf Ghani is sworn in as Afghanistan's new president; Ghani will share power with runner-up candidate Abdullah Abdullah, who has taken the position of chief executive

• Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah have agreed to share power in a unity government, with Ghani as president and Abdullah as chief executive officer of Afghanistan; both men claimed fraud after the election, prompting a U.N.-monitored recount

• 49 hostages of the Islamic State are freed and returned to Turkey after an operation enacted by the Turkish government after the June kidnapping in Mosul, Iraq; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not give information regarding its actions

• A man is apprehended inside the White House after scaling the fence and running into the building; U.S. President Barack Obama and his family were not there at the time of the incident

• President Xi Jinping of China begins a visit to India today to discuss strengthening economic relations and potentially resolving disputes regarding segments of the border between the two nations

• Muslim Brotherhood followers have been asked to leave Qatar; other Arab states are unhappy with Qatar's support of the group, highlighted by recent charges that the nation received state secrets from member and former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi

• President Barack Obama announces that the U.S. will increase its support for forces fighting the advances of the Islamic State militant group; air power, military training and other aid will be provided, but U.S. troops will not be sent to battle

• Former Egyptian President President Mohamed Mursi and nine others have been charged with giving confidential state security information to the government of Qatar; if convicted of treason, Mursi could face the death penalty

• Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have agreed to a peace plan that would retain rebel control of parts of eastern Ukraine; the two presidents hope to continue negotiations on Friday

• In the face of signs that Russian troops and equipment are aiding rebels in eastern Ukraine, the E.U. proposes further sanctions against Russia; President Vladimir Putin denies the charges while calling for independent statehood of the region

• Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during a conference in Minsk to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine; Putin agreed to support peace, while Poroshenko promised to develop cease-fire plans

• Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dissolves the country's Supreme Council, which has been stymied by pro-separatist members; new elections will be held on October 26th

• U.S. officials have validated claims by the Islamic State (IS) that journalist James Foley, held in captivity for two years, has been killed; President Obama vows to continue airstrikes in Iraq against IS militants

• Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has agreed to stop challenging Haider al-Abadi as the new Prime Minister; President Fuad Masum selected al-Abadi for the position earlier this week

• 705 military troops will be sent to Iraq by the U.S. to assist in planning assistance to groups affected by the advance of Islamist State militants; President Barack Obama states that the troops will not be involved in combat

• U.S. President Barack Obama will allow the Pentagon to perform a limited number of air strikes in Iraq to thwart the advance of the Islamic State

• Days after imposing additional sanctions against Russia, U.S. President Barack Obama contacts Russian President Vladimir Putin to express concern about Russia's continuing support of Ukrainian separatists

• U.S. President Barack Obama authorizes air strikes against Islamic State militants for situations in which the forces appear to threaten U.S. personnel; food drops were also carried out along the Syrian border to civilians trapped by the violence

• U.S. Congress votes to sue the Obama administration, claiming that the president overstepped his authority by independently delaying a provision of the Obamacare law without seeking required congressional approval

• U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Central American leaders, asking their assistance in curbing the flood of children attempting to immigrate; Obama asserted that children without proper documentation would be returned to their home countries

• The U.S. House Judiciary Committee finds that there are no grounds for impeachment of President Barack Obama, despite calls for such action from political opponents

• Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accepted a role as economic advisor to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in order to help Egypt reform its economy and develop new business opportunities

• U.S. President Barack Obama requests $2 billion for emergency measures to address illegal immigration and enhance security at the border with Mexico; thousands of children have been caught in the last 8 months crossing the border without adults

• Former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker is nominated for the position of President of the European Commission in a 26-2 vote over U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who strongly objected to the decision

• The week-long cease-fire in the Ukraine has been endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who urged separatist fighters to stop fighting and instead hold discussions with the Ukrainian government

• Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko initiates a 7-day cease-fire, allowing troops to defend themselves but not to attack; during the cease-fire, separatists can turn in weapons and receive amnesty; so far, rebels have rejected the offer

• U.S. President Barack Obama proposes vast expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine Reserve, increasing the protected ocean area to over 780,000 square miles within nautical boundaries of U.S. Pacific territories

• The U.S. may cooperate with Iran in identifying options to address the violence in Iraq, though such options would not include military aid; President Barack Obama has sent 257 troops to Baghdad to provide additional security for the U.S. embassy

• Incumbent Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is re-elected; the leader plans to continue peace talks with rebels in an effort to bring ongoing violence in the country to an end

• A U.S. aircraft carrier is being repositioned in the Persian Gulf in the event that President Barack Obama decides to authorize military aid in the current internal Iraqi conflict; the president has stated that he will not send in ground troops

• Russia seeks to intimidate Finland out of thoughts of joining NATO; a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that any moves by Finland to do so could potentially trigger World War III

• Petro Poroshenko is inaugurated as the new Ukrainian president; Poroshenko took a firm stand on keeping Ukraine united and suggested plans to ease tensions in the eastern part of the country, including an offer of amnesty for separatists

• World leaders gather in France to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day; Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko and others concerning the need to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine

• President Barack Obama exchanges 5 Guantanamo Bay prisoners for the lone U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl; some lawmakers protest that the secret exchange was illegal because Congress was not notified in advance

• President Barack Obama proposes a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants up to 25% over 15 years in order to address climate change; the legislation would give states the freedom to determine how to implement the emission reductions

• Early election tallies show that Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will be the next president of Egypt; el-Sisi, the military commander who removed former president Mohamed Morsi from office due to mass protests, resigned his military position to run for president

• President Barack Obama plans to keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through the end of 2015 and then reduce this number over the following two years to a small force; the troops will train Afghan forces and conduct counterterrorism operations

• Pope Francis invites Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to pray with him for peace; both leaders accept the invitation

• South African President Jacob Zuma is sworn into office for his second 5-year term

• Russian president Vladimir Putin says that he will respect the outcome of the upcoming Ukrainian elections, despite the fact that Viktor Yanukovych, the former Ukrainian president, has not had his position terminated by legal means

• African leaders meet in Paris to discuss ways to fight Boko Haram, the Islamist group that kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls over a month ago in Nigeria; the country's president, Goodluck Jonathan, has been seen as slow to respond to the situation

• Russian president Vladimir Putin bans cursing in creative works and media outlets, with fines on individuals and companies for using bad language; the stated purpose of the law is to protect Russian language and culture

• Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has resigned in the wake of security breaches late last year in which customer data was stolen; the company will be run by John Mulligan, the company's Chief Financial Officer, until a new president is identified

• Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, makes the first visit to the U.K. as Irish head of state; his visit reciprocates that of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland in 2011

• Afghans show up at the polls in spite of potential violence to vote for their next president; this is the third such election since the 2001 removal of the Taliban from power

• Slovakia sets a new precedent by electing Andrej Kiska, a millionaire, as president; Mr. Kiska is the first president without ties to the Communist party to be elected since 1993, when the country was formed out of the breakup of Czechoslovakia

• President Obama pays his respects in a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican; Obama has stated that he is 'a great admirer' of the new pope

• President Obama promises that the U.S. will not take military action in Ukraine in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea

• President Obama awards 24 Medals of Honor to veterans originally overlooked due to ethnic or racial bias

• President Obama meets with Ukrainian acting Prime Minster Yatsenyuk and vows to 'stand with Ukraine' in its conflict with Russia

• President Obama sends his 2015 budget to Congress, announcing that it is a 'roadmap for creating jobs with good wages and expanding opportunity for all Americans'

• President Obama meets with the Dalai Lama for the third time despite protests from China and warnings that the meeting could threaten diplomatic relations

• Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrests more anti-government protestors and now holds 19 people suspected of attempting to undermine him

• As part of a political transition, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and representatives from the country's main political parties agree to transform Yemen into a six-region federation

• Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, considers the territorial claims China has made in the South China Sea comparable to the Nazi Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia

• Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announces plans to raise the price of gas to 17 cents from 6 cents; the country's annual gas subsidy's cost $12 billion, too much to bear when facing 50 percent inflation and dwindled cash reserves

• Responding to privacy concerns raised by former spy contractor Edward Snowden's NSA disclosures, U.S. President Barack Obama announces reforms to NSA phone surveillance

• U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizes Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, for legislation he signed last week to ban same-sex marriage and criminalize gay rights groups and their activities; the law includes penalties of up to 14 years imprisonment

• U.S. NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and John Holdren, White House Science Advisor, announce that President Obama's administration approved extending the use of the International Space Station through 2024

• Hillary Clinton has rented out her 2008 campaign email list to a prominent group of supporters urging her to run for President in 2016

• Former President Bill Clinton swears in New York's 109th Mayor, Bill de Blasio, the city's first Democratic mayor since 1993

2013 Event

• Breaking with long-standing tradition among Russian heads of state, President Vladimir Putin delivered two New Year's speeches rather than one; he made his second stres from Khaborovsk, a city that experienced devastating floods this summer

• President Barack Obama and the First Family begin their 17-day Hawaiian vacation; this is the sixth year in a row the Obama's have visited family and friends on the island of Oahu for Christmas and New Year's

• In an interview with U.S. journalist Barbara Walters, Hillary Clinton claims she is 'unsure' whether she will run for President in 2016

• Chilean voters elect President Michelle Bachelet in the country's presidential election; Bachelet served as the first female Chilean president in 2006

• The body of former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is flown from Pretoria to the leader's ancestral village of Qunu, his final resting place

• Former South African President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, dies at the age of 95

• The 150th Anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address' considered one of the greatest political speeches, is commemorated in the U.S. on the battlefield and by the Library of Congress

• Georgia swears in its new President, Giorgi Margvelashvili

• For reasons of 'strategic national interest', Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announces the nation will cut its diplomatic ties with Taiwan but would remain a friend of Taiwan's people

• The trial for ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi begin in Cairo; Morsi's behavior during the session prompts the judge to postpone the trial until January 8, 2014

• Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia, becomes the first head of state to visit with Kim Jong-un in North Korea since he became Supreme Leader

• Giorgi Margvelashvili wins a landslide victory in Georgia's election, ending a decade of power by pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili

• In an effort to repair strained relations after news reports cite the U.S. spied on Chancellor Angela Merke's cell phone, President Barack Obama congratulates the Chancellor on the formation of her new cabinet, and invites her to Washington

• When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaves office, U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellin to take his place

• Argentinian Vice President Amado Boudou takes over the duties of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner when she undergoes surgery to remove a subdural hematoma

• Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expels three U.S. diplomats, accusing them of 'economic conspiracy' related to a power-grid shutdown

• Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, states he will grant international weapons inspectors access to chemical weapons sites, but rebels may make the sites unreachable

• Rwandan President Paul Kagame achieves a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary election

• The International Olympic Committee elects Thomas Bach of Germany as their new President

• President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, ends his five year term and will be replaced by Mamnoon Hussain

• Nelson Mandela, South Africa's former President, is released after spending almost three months in a Pretoria hospital

• U.S. President Barack Obama claims he is ready to order a strike on Syria, but will seek approval from Congress

• Prior to being transferred to house arrest, former Egyptian President is released from prison and transferred to a military hospital

• A corruption investigation continues after a Cairo criminal court releases former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from Tora prison

• U.S. President Barack Obama announces a series of NSA reforms aimed at minimizing criticism over the NSA's electronic surveillance program

• U.S. President Barack Obama announces plans to pull out of a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month; the meeting was set to occur before the September G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg

• Despite differences with the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Barack Obama affirms that the U.S. will attend the G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg

• Former U.S. President George W. Bush recovers after having a stent procedure to treat a blocked artery; the blockage was opened without any complications

• The new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is sworn in by Vice President, Joe Biden

• The super PAC 'Ready for Hillary', has raised over $1 million since its inception this year; much of the money raised comes from mega-donors to President Barack Obama

• The Pakistani electorate vote for Mamnoon Hussain as the country's 12th President

• The entire government of South Sudan, including its Vice President, Riek Machar, is fired by the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit

• The United Kingdom is visited by Thein Sein, the President of Burma

• Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, hoping the two sides could re-enter peace talks which have been on a three-year hiatus

• Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, announces she will resign from her position to become the President of the University of California

• A call for demonstrations is held by opponents of deposed President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt

• In a poll, only 30 percent of people in Brazil considered President Dilma Rousseff's administration 'great' or 'good'

• China's President, Xi Jinping and South Koran President Park Geun-hye meet for four days of talks aimed at reducing tensions on the Koran Peninsula

• Former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is receiving care for a lung infection that has worsened, leaving him in critical condition

• Former President George W. Bush's airplane, a Gulfstream IV, on its way to Dallas' Love Field , was diverted safely to Louisville International AIrport when the pilot smelled smoke

• China's President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama discuss cyber espionnage at the end of their two day summit

• Russia's President, Vladimir Putin and his wife appear on live television to announce they have divorced after thirty years of marriage

• Former U.S. President Bill Clinton earns $500,000 for a speech given to honor Israel's President Shimon Peres

• U.S. President Barack Obama appoints James Comey as the new director of the FBI

• Rafael Correa wins an unprecedented third term as President of Ecuador

• Former President of Argentina, Jorge Rafael Videla dies in a jail in Marcos Paze, Buenos Aires

• Cairo, Egypt conducts a retrial of its former President Hosni Mubarak over his alleged role and complicity in the deaths of protestors during the 2011 Egyptian revolution

• 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

• Italy's vice-secretary of the Democratic Party , Enrico Letta, receives the mandate for form a new government from president Giorgio Napolitano

• Italy re-elects President Giorgio Napolitano

• Former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, is arrested and charged with unlawfully detaining judges in 2007

• Malawi President Joyce Banda accuses singer Madonna of 'bullying state officials' after exaggerating the contributions of her charity and complaining about her treatment during a recent visit to the country

• After being hospitalized for nine days for pneumonia, former South African President Nelson Mandela, age 94, was released from the hospital

• In preparation for plans to step down in 2015, the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir gives an order to release all political prisoners

• President of China, Xi Jinping addresses leaders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, vowing to strengthen ties with Africa

• The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, asserts he will have the International Court of Justice in The Hague solve the border dispute between Bolivia and Chile

• Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan for over 25 years, announces he will step down in 2015

• France's former President, Nicolas Sarkozy is investigated over claims of illegal donations made by Liliane Bettencourt of L'Oreal, the country's richest woman

• Zillur Rahman, age 84, the President of Bangladesh, dies in office after a long illness at a hospital in Singapore; the government declared three days of mourning

• China's CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China, with Li Yuanchao named as Vice President

• South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is released from the hospital after having "successful" medical tests; prior reports stated he was hospitalized for a routine checkup

• Anti-apartheid leader and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, age 94 is hospitalized for, what sources say, was a routine checkup

• Venezuela holds a funeral for former President Hugo Chavez; following the funeral, they swear in Vice President Nicolas Maduro as Interim President

• President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas; he was 58

• U.S. Senate Republicans filibuster the nomination of Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary of Defense, demanding answers to questions about President Obama and Benghazi

• An investigation is taking place over recent hacking incident involving a hacker gaining access to the email accounts of former President George H. W. Bush, his friends and relatives

• The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, loses his position as President of the Euro Group; he is unseated by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Minister of Finance for the Netherlands

• President Barack Obama is inaugurated in the Blue Room of the White House; this is his second term in office

• After more than seven weeks of treatment for bronchitis, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is released from The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas

• U.S. President announces the nomination of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, to replace Timothy Geithner, who is stepping down from his post

• Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice determines they can defer the latest inauguration of President Hugo Chavez while his cancer operation recovery continues

• U.S. Republican Chuck Hagel is nominated to be the country's next Secretary of Defense by President Barack Obama; John O. Brennan is nominated to be the next CIA Director

• The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, declares that official documents must use the words 'State of Palestine'

• Venezuela's government announces that President Hugo Chavez is suffering from 'respiratory deficiency', a condition he developed after having a severe lung infection

• Actor Gerard Depardieu is granted citizenship by Russian President, Vladimir Putin; Depardieu renounced his French citizenship due to the country's high taxes

2012 Event

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recovers from a cancer operation; his Cabinet ministers get together to pray for his recovery

• The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act is signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

• Following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Monti, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves the Parliament

• Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December

• Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa, challenges party leadership by President Jacob Zuma at the opening of the African National Congress (ANC)

• The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, undergoes surgery for cancer in Cuba

• Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declares that proposed referendums on a new constitution will be enacted, but the decree he issued expanding his powers will be annulled

• Philippine President Benigno Aquino, announces a state of national calamity after Typhoon Bopha claims over 450 lives

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

• Mexico swears in its new President, Enrique Pena Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

• A new species of freshwater fish are discovered; the new species of darter fish, Etheostoma obama, are named after U.S. President Barack Obama

• Egyptian President Morsi plans to address the nation about the decree he enacted which greatly increases his powers

• President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi causes a call for large protests after he passed a degree giving himself sweeping new powers

• Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meet U.S. President Barack Obama, the country's first visit from a sitting U.S. President

• Prior to a visit from U.S. President Barack Obama, Myanmar's government pardons 452 prisoners under an amnesty as a goodwill gesture

• Votes in Florida are finalized, giving Barack Obama the winning number of electoral votes; this will be his second term as President of the United States

• Under intense media scrutiny for an extramarital affair, U.S. CIA Director David Petraeus submits his resignation to President Barack Obama

• European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, confirms the design overhaul of euro banknotes, beginning with the 5 euro note

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

• In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan

• 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

• The President of Germany's Social Democratic Party, Sigmar Gabriel recommends Peer Steinbruck as the party's Chancellor candidate for the 2012 German federal election

• 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

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

• China's President, Hu Jintao, officially receives Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who came to the country for cooperation talks and in-depth discussion

• In a move to demonstrate promised reforms are taking place, Thein Sein, President of Burma, changes nine cabinet ministers

• In a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision, the President of Israel, Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is at the core of Jewish identity

• Egypt's state news organization states that their President, Mohammed Morsi is going to Iran at the end of August to attend the Non-Aligned Movement meeting

• The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Jang Song-thank, meets Hu Jintao, the President of China

• An Egyptian lawyer, Mohamed Salem, files a lawsuit over the country's President Morsi removing Hussein Tantawi, former commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, and Sami Anan, former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces

• Ghana's state funeral, held in Accra for President John Atta Mills, attracts tens of thousands

• Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's President, signs a controversial law concerning the status of 18 languages as regional and minority languages; the law allows officials in Russian-speaking regions of the country to use Russian in documents and at public events

• A truth commission created by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff convenes to investigate the country's military dictatorship

• President of France, Francois Holland finalizes a deal with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to forgive $4.7 billion dollars in debt incurred by the Ivory Coast when it was a French Colonial Power

• Vice-President John Dramani Mahama becomes President of Ghana after President John Atta Mills, dies

• Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government

• India elects Pranab Mukherjee as its new President

• In Egypt, protesters throw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State's motorcade during her first visit to the country since President Mohamed Mursi was elected

• President Hugo Chavez, of Venezuela, announces he has recovered from pelvic cancer

• Vano Merabishvili is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Georgia by the country's President, Mikheil Saakashvili

• Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo faces impeachment

• Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, reported to be in a coma, is removed from life support

• President Barack Obama states that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants

• In a third round of voting, the Parliament of Albania fails to elect the President of the Republic of Albania

• Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, announces she will switch her personal savings from the U.S. dollar to the Argentine peso

• Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution

• The newly-elected President of France, Francois Hollande, makes a surprise visit to see the French troops in Afghanistan

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

• Dioncounda Traore, Acting President of Mali, requires hospitalization after encountering angry demonstrators who object to the 70-year old to hold the office for a year

• France swears in Francois Hollande, the 24th President of France

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to his home after successfully completing radiotherapy treatments for cancer in Cuba

• Russia swears in Vladimir Putin for his third, six-year term as President

• In the second round of the French presidential election Francois Hollande is elected President of France

• After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy

• Argentina's Senate passes President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's bill to nationalize 51% of oil company YPF with overwhelming majority

• Officals in Egypt reject a deeply unpopular agreement to supply Israel with natural gas; the agreement was made by former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarek

• Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, introduces a bill to nationalize 51% of YPF, the Argentine oil company, to Congress

• Mali swears in Dioncounda Traore, an interim president, marking the country's transition back to civilian rule following last month's coup

• Following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi

• U.S. President Barack Obama begins a three-day visit to South Korea, as tensions rise over North Korea's proposed missile tests

• Germany's Federal Assembly elects Joachim Gauck President of the Federal Republic of Germany

• After three years without an elected head of state, Nicolae Timofti is named President of Moldova

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns home after a three-week recovery from cancer surgery

• Russians stage protests in response to last week's election of Vladimir Putin as President for a third term

• The President of France, Niclas Sarkozy, announces a plan to cut immigration to France by 50 per cent

• President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez recovers after a tumor is removed from his pelvis

• Josefina Vazquez Mota is the first woman ever endorsed by a major Mexican party to run for President of Mexico

• French President Nicolas Sarkozy presents an economic reform package that increases taxes and proposes a new tax on financial transactions

• Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announces that Iran is willing to discuss its nuclear program with other leaders

• The 2012 State of the Union Address is delivered by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Congress

• fter three years in exile, Madagascar's President, Marc Ravalomanana announces he will return to the country

• With over 42% of the vote, the island nation of Kiribati re-elects President Anote Tong to a third and final term

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour

• U.S. President Barack Obama announces plans to dramatically cut defense spending

• Vice-President of Argentina Amado Boudou assumes temporary power as President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has surgery for thyroid cancer

• Iowa voters attend electoral caucuses; Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum lead Republican contenders as nominees for President of the United States

2011 Event

• Despite protests by opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, Joseph Kaliba is sworn in as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo

• Jacques Chirac, former President of France, is declared guilty of embezzlement and violating trust for filling non-existent jobs with party members while serving as Mayor of Paris

• President Barack Obama asks Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar December 4, 2011

• In a second consecutive mandate, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is sworn in as President of Argentina

• Abdullah Gul, President of Turkey, begins a three-day visit to the United Kingdom

• Italian President Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the country's new Prime Minister

• Ireland inaugurates its ninth President, Michael D. Higgins

• President Barack Obama's Jobs Act fails to receive the sixty votes required to advance from the U.S. Senate

• Further sanctions are imposed on Belarus, Iran and Syria by the EU, who reiterates the call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down

• China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project

• After a rare public outcry, President Thein Sein of Burma decides to halt the controversial Myitsone Dam project

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

• Former French President Jacques Chirac begins stands trial in Paris for embezzlement charges

• In Kabul, a rocket is fired into the compound of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan

• The price of gold reaches a new record after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announces plans to nationalize his country's gold industry

• The trial of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarek and sons, Alaa and Gamall is adjourned and merged with that of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly

• President Obama's health insurance mandate from his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is struck down by the U.S. court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

• President Obama signs legislation to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, narrowly averting the debt ceiling crisis

• Former Cuban President Fidel Castro makes his first appearance outside of Havana since leaving office in 2006, visiting a mausoleum in Artemisa

• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces the country's plan to launch a manned shuttle into space by 2019

• In Guinea, up to 80 people, including soldiers, are arrested for a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Conde, which occurred July 19

• In a speech outside of Potala Palace, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping declares he will crush attempts for an Independent Tibet

• U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C. despite a warning from the People's Republic of China

• The European Central BAnk appoints Italy's Mario Draghi as its new President, set to replace Jean-Claude Trichet on November 1

• Michelle Bachmann announces she will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States

• On his visit to the United Kingdom, U.S. President Barack Obama meets Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh

• In a meeting with President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not fully withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested

• The U.S. intends to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, for alleged human rights breaches during the 2011 Syrian Uprising

• Suzanne Mubarek, wife of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, has open heart surgery after having a heart attack brought on by a corruption investigation

• In Egypt, authorities extend the detention of former President Hosni Mubarak for another 15 days

• Amid protests, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, is sworn in for a fourth term

• U.S. President Barack Obama chooses not release photos of Osama bin Laden following his death; photos taken at the Abbotabad compound are released by Reuters

• U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives

• By order of an Egyptian court, the name of Egypt's former President, Hosni Mubarak, is stripped from public spaces, schools and streets

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

• Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and sons, Alaa and Gamal, are detained for 15 days of questioning regarding charges of corruption and abuse of power

• In the Republic of Djibouti, located in the Horn of Africa, President Ismael Omar Guelleh wins re-election with 79% of the vote

• Kazakhstan holds a presidential election; President Nursultan Nazarbayev wins 95% of the vote

• James Bullard, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis calls for the Federal Reserve to limit its purchase of U.S. Treasuries because they 'feed the fire' of inflation

• U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly announces she will retire rather than serve a second term in 2012 if President Obama is reelected

• In Egypt, a travel ban is imposed on former President Hosni Mubarak and his family

• Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh orders the country's security forces to protect protesters

• Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni continues his 30-year rule after being re-elected President of Uganda; the opposition claims the election was a 'sham'

• Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas

• Inspired by the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, nearly 5,000 of Algerians protest their regime, calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be removed

• Anti-government protesters in Yemen call for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down from his regime; Ali has ruled the country since 1978

• President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

• Protesters continue their 12th day of nationwide protests in Cairo's Tahir Square, calling on President Hosni Mubarak to step down

• Egypt's people vow to continue demonstrating until President Mubarak's regime falls

• Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years

• President Mubarak asks his government to resign

• Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari, launched an emergency polio immunization programme targeting 32 million children under age 5

• Jordan's Ali bin Al Hussein is elected as Vice President of FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football

• Brazil swears in Dilma Rousseff, its first female president

2010 Event

• Bolivian President Alvaro Garcia Linera prompts bus drivers to strike after announcing an 83% increase in the price of gasoline and a 73% increase in the price of diesel fuel

• Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is granted temporary powers to pass laws by decree, negating any required review or support from the National Assembly

• Despite concern from the opposition, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declares he will pass laws by decree for the next six to eighteen months

• China creates a new 'Confucius peace prize' to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it

• After facing heavy flooding and mudslides, the President of Venezuela declares a state of emergency in the state of Falcon

• President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects Iran's successful family planning program and urges young Iranian girls to marry at age 16

• U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in India on a tour to promote U.S. exports

• Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, visits the Kuril Islands, the subject of a dispute with Japan

• Trade unions in France launch a round of strikes in response to President Sarkozy's plan to lift the pension age to 62

• President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council

• Acting as a private citizen, former President Jimmy Carter travels to North Korea to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, a U.S. citizen

• The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research

• Model Naomi Campbell confirms former President of Liberia Charles Taylor gave her diamonds she described as 'dirty looking stones'

• The 15th President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, is sworn in, as is the 15th Vice President of the Philippines, Jejomar Binay

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

• President Obama meets with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and promises Palestinians $400 million in U.S. assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

• Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany nominates Christian Wulff for President

• Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma and United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon discuss climate change

• President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 'alien troops' to leave and suggests that the regional nations be allowed to settle things themselves

• Roza Otunbayeva says Kyrgyzstan's ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev must stand trial over riots; gunfire disrupts a rally in support of the former President in the city of Osh

• President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program during the Nuclear Security Summit

• 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

• Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors

• The 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots continue as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly flees the country, the government steps down and protesters control the parliament building

• Acting president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolves the Nigeria's cabinet

• Three men are detained in relation to the theft of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos' corpse, December 11, 2009

• The widow of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, Agathe Habyarimana, is arrested in France - accused of helping plan the 1994 genocide

• Ejup Ganic, former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is stopped while trying to escape war crime charges, at London Heathrow airport

• After being delayed by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th President of Ukraine

• The declaration of Victor Yanukovych as President of Ukraine is suspended by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine

• Former Phillipine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 196 others are charged with murder relating to the Maguindanao massacre, November 2009

• Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commands Iran's atomic agency to start enriching uranium at a higher level

• 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

• Thousands of Venezuelan protesters demonstrate for and against President Hugo Chavez' policies surrounding energy shortages and currency revaluation

2009 Event

• President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, urges his armed forces to prepare for a possible war with Columbia

• U.S. Senate Committee passes healthcare reform bill, hailed as a 'critical milestone' by President Obama

• President Obama promises the will 'get something done this year' on healthcare reform

• Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment

• Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide

• Peace talks witht he Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger are held by the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou

• Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces

• Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military

• An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur

• Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau

• Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War

• Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe

• Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States

2008 Event

• Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States

• Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President of the United States

• President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law

• Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan

• Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected

2006 Event

• Hugo Chavez, leftist dictator, is re-elected President of Venezuela

2005 Event

• Bolivia elects leftist Evo Morales president

• George W. Bush is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States

• Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President

2004 Event

• President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director

• George W. Bush wins a second term as U.S. president, winning 51% of the popular vote

• Former President Bill Clinton undergoes a quadruple bypass operation

• Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention

• Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving

2004 Death

• Ronald Reagan, president, governor and actor, dies at 93

2003 Death

• Laurence Tisch, entrepreneur/philanthropist, president of Loews Theatres, dies at 80

2003 Event

• President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over

• Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, "

• 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 Event

• In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil'

2001 Event

• George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States

2000 Death

• Jason Robards, actor, All the President's Men, dies at 78

2000 Event

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

• Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns

• The Democratic party nominates Al Gore to run for president

• The Republican party nominates George W. Bush to run for president

1999 Event

• Senate acquits President Clinton of lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinski case

• Senate begins to try President Clinton on lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewisnky case

1998 Event

• House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment, charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice

1998 Death

• Alan J. Pakula, "director, producer", All the President's Men, dies at 70

• House of Representatives approves impeachment inquiry of President Clinton

• President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky

• Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton

• Federal court rules President Clinton does not have executive privilege in the Lewinsky case so he must testify

• Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton is thrown out of court

• Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze

• Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, dies

• 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

• First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy

• President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

• Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies

• News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations

• President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones

1997 Death

• Ewart G. Abner, Jr., president (Motown Records), dies at 74

1997 Event

• President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"

• Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies

• Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies

• Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau, 1989-1992, dies

• Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies

• Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs

• Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

• Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies

• Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12

• Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies

• President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College

• Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt

• Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies

• Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies

• Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78

• President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery

• John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58

• President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

• Enrique Peralta Azurdia, military President of Guatemala in 1963 - 1966, dies

• Jim Kensil, NFL president for the New York Jets, dies of heart failure at 66

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

1996 Death

• Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies

• Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies

• Alain Poher, French President of European Parliament (1966-69), dies

1996 Event

• Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate

• Najibullah, President of Afghanistan Democratic Party 1986 - 1990, executed

• Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds, dies at 45 in Vienna, Austria

• Spiro Theodore Agnew, U.S. Vice President (1969-73), dies at 77

• Ernesto Geisel, military president of Brazil 1974 - 1979, dies at 89

• 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

• Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies

• Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82

• Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies

• Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies

• Bob Dole, Senator-R-Kansas, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president

• Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies

• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83

• Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies

• Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (1963-66), dies

• Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (1966-70), dies

• Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72

• Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies

• Shin Kanemaru, Vice President of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81

• Edmund S Muskie, vice President candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81

• Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies

• Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61

• Or San Yu, president of Burma in (1981-88), dies

• Francois Mitterrand, President of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79

• 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 Death

• Nello Celio, president of Switzerland (1972), dies at 81

• 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

• Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated

• Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82

• Sicco Mansholt, President Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies

1995 Event

• Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed

• Juan Carlos Ongania, President of Argentina (1966-70), dies

• President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City

• Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies

• Carlos Menem, Jr., son of Argentine president, dies at 26

• President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament

• President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns

• Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece

• Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay

• Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies

• Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90

• Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104

• Souphanouvong, Red Prince, president of Laos 1975 - 1987, dies at 85

• Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies

• Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84

• Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil

1994 Event

• President brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)

1994 Death

• Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78

• Kim II Sung, President of North Korea (1945-94), dies at 82

• Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated

• Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico

• Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay

• Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies

• Joseph H Hazen, U.S. producer/Vice President (Warner Bros), dies at 96

• Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka

• Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan

• Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election

• President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti

• Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil

• South African President Nelson Mandela visits U.S.

• Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86

• Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi

• Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69

• Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5%

• South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning

• Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau

• Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia

• Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees

• Kim II Sung, President of North-Korea (1948-94), buried

• Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president

• Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82

• Roman Herzog sworn in as German president

• Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia

• Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria

• Erich Honecker, president of East Germany (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81

• Roman Herzog elected president of Germany

• Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic

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

• Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama

• Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica

• President Clinton announces U.S. will no longer repatriate boat people

• President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California

• Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81

• Richard M. Nixon, American President

• Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later

• President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death

• Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash

• 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

• Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76

• Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated

• Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated

• Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44

• El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war

• President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed

• Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile

• Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia

• Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies

• Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland

• Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica

• Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland

• President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam

• Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras

• Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad son, dies in car accident at 31

• Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72

• Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies

• Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70

1993 Death

• Thomas J Watson, Jr., president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79

• Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54

• Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies

1993 Event

• Guinee general Lansana re-elected president

• Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75

• Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile

• Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast

• Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88

• Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela

• President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

• Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum

• Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president

• Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee

• Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40

• General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president

• John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76

• Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize

• Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)

• Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin

• Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to President Aristide, murdered

• Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees

• Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president

• President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions

• Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign

• President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville

• Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi president/Sylvie Kinigi, PM

• Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia

• Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton

• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran

• Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia

• Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala

• Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army

• Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi

• President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees

• Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired

• Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey

• Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years

• Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)

• Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68

• Turgut zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65

• Isaac Rojas, Vice President of Argentina (1955-58), dies

• Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie

• Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63

• Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies

• Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel

• Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85

• Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies

• Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78

• William J. Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president

• Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics

1992 Event

• President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair

• Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia

1992 Death

• Carl Barger, baseball President (Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins), dies at 62

• Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies

• Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91

• Alexander Dubcek, President of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies

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

• 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

• Vice President Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil

• Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor

• Flora SA Benson, U.S., wife of President Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies

• Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand (1975-84)/President IMF, dies

• Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies

• Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79

• Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73

• Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria

• Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador

• Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria

• Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines

• Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73

• Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan

• President Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch

• Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies

• Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria

• Karl Carstens, president West Germany 1979 - 1984, dies at 77

• Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies

• Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy

• President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees

• Joe Burke, president (Kansas City Royals), dies at 68, dies

• Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic

• Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns

• Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns

• Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress

• Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president

• Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania

• Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show

• Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies

• William H Schuman, U.S. composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81

• President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair

• Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to President De Klerk, dies

• Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation

• Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies

• Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament

1991 Event

• Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R.

• Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan

• Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan

1991 Death

• Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78

• Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies

• Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party

• Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies

• Reverend Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti

• President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert

• Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee

• Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname

• Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC

• President Bush declares recession is near an end

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

• Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins

• Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in U.S.

• President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died

• Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR

• Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation

• Vlastimil Fisar, Czechoslovakian actor/president (International Actors Federation), dies

• Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns

• President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game

• President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat

• J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies

• Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

• Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tome e Principal

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

• President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws

• Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU

• Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala

• President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected

• Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala

• Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak

1990 Event

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

• Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti

• President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid

• Expos President Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman

• Dr. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia

• President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990

• Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland

• Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize

1990 Death

• Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered

• Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies

• President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait

• "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book

• South African president F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington D.C.

• West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty

• Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated

• Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces

• Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

• President Bush calls up military reserves

• Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson

• Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories

• President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan

• Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru

• President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act

• Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies

• Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies

• South Africa President F W de Klerk lifts 4 year of state of emergency

• Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of U.S.S.R. supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies

• Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic

• Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia

• Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia

• Dominican Republic President Joaquin Ricardo Balaguer re-elected

• Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate President debate, dies at 84

• Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party

• Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated

• Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's president

• President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal

• Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president

• Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil

• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress

• Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti

• Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer

• Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay

• Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93

• Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62

• South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th

• South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs

• Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies

1989 Event

• Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia

• Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe

• Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president

• President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns

• Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India

• U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

• India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns

• Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay

• Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay

• Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras

1989 Death

• Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies

• Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon

• Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon

• Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush

• South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act

• Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns

• Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon

• Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey

• South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners

• Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson

• Ferdinand E Marcos, president of Philippines (1965-86), dies at 72

• FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa

• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland

• Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa

• President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns

• Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia

• President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game

• Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina

• South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela

• Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union

• Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing

• Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs

• President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama

• Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head

• NL announces Yankees' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president

• Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres

• Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive

• President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon

• Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself president

1988 Event

• Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)

• Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka

• Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela

• Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico

• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union

1988 Death

• Billy Carter, President Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51

• Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65

• NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish

• Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma

• Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president

• Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63

• Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in crash at 64

• Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash

• Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador

• Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86

• Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989

• General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma

• Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico

• Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%)

• Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89

• President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan

• Francois Mitterrand elected president of France

• Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate

• Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85

• President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp

• Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay

• James R Killian, Jr., MIT President (1948-59), dies at 83

• Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname

• Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair

• Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti

• Chiang Ching-huo, president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69

1987 Event

• Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe

• Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison

• Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari

• Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea

• President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles

• Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba

• Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies

1987 Death

• Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies

• Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

• Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize

• Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70

• Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon, dies at 87

• Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women

• Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim

• Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines

• Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78

• Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils President

• President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad

• Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad and Tobago

• President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress

• President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

• Troops of Chad President Habre conquer Fada oasis

1986 Death

• Ron Kass, record co President (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer

1986 Event

• A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League

• President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti

• Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal

• Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees

• U.S. president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran

• Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique

• Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53

• President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta

• President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres

• Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president of Finland, dies at 85

• Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege

• President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger

• President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty

• President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments

• President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

• A. Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL

• Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria

• President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled

• Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia

• South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela

• Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71

• President Reagan appoints Dr. James C Fletcher NASA Administrator

• President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan

• Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees

• Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president

• Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen

• President Reagan announces formation of Commission on Challenger Accident

• Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica

• Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda

• Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954

• South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents

• Abdel Fattah Ismail, president of South-Yemen (19??-80), murdered

• U.S. president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

1985 Event

• Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi

• French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski

• President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser

• President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time

• Argentine President Alfonsins Radical Burgerunie wins elections

• President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands

• President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa

• Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru

• Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon

• Andrei Gromyko appointed president of U.S.S.R.

• Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan

• U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua

• El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election

• Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece

1985 Death

• Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/president of U.S.S.R. (1984-85), dies at 73

• South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence

• Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president

• Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years

• Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua

• Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III

1984 Event

• President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)

• Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R)

• President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1984 Death

• Joe Cronin, shortstop and American League President, dies at 77

• President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project

• Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush

• Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president

• During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

• Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana

1984 Birthday

• Lauren Bush, born in Houston, Texas, fashion model, environmentalist, niece, President George W. Bush

• President Reagan visits China

• General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union

• U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president

• President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term

• Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead

1983 Event

• Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat

• Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president

• President Reagan became 1st U.S. President to address Japan's legislature

• President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L. King day

• Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 U.S. Marines in Lebanon

• Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela

• Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees

• AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows

• U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president

• Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR

• AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires

1983 Death

• Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/president of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80

• President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security

• President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue

• U.S. president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" missile defense plan (SDI)

• Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president

• President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"

• Nikolaj V Podgorny, president U.S.S.R., dies at 79

1982 Event

• Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery

• Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico

• Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected

• President Reagan proclaims war against drugs

• Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia

• Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia

1982 Death

• Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier, dies

• Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon

• Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks

• Nahum Goldmann, President Zionist World Organization, dies at 87

• Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president

• Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81

• Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico

• Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, President Dominican Rep, commits suicide

• General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina

• Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office

• John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity

• President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech

• President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat

• General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala

• President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth

• President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

• Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador

• Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador

• Melville Bell Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society, dies at 80

• 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed

• Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees

• President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

• Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta

• Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica

• Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands

• Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland

• Roberto S. Cordova installed as president of Honduras

• Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland

• Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71

1981 Event

• Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president

• Argentine president/general Roberto Viola flees

• President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence

• Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

• President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

1981 Death

• Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt 1970 - 1981, assassinated at 62

• Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran

• Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League

• Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees

• Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb

• John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan

• President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers

• Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association

• Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran

• Iran president Bani Sadr deposed

• Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election

• Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers

• Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated

• Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President of Ecuador, dies in air crash

• Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France

• Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies

• Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for President of France

• President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III

• Munabi, assistant to Uganda president Obote, murdered

1981 Birthday

• 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

• Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president

• Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege

• Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal

1980 Event

• Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns

• Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees

• Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral

• Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran

• Ronald Reagan (R) defeats President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide

• President nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court

1980 Death

• George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86

• Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

• Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay

• Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea

• Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted

• Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president

• Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana

• Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president

• Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president

• Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republicans in Detroit

• Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies

• John W. Davis, President (WV State college), dies at 92

• Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president

• Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru

• Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried

• William R Tolbert, Jr., Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup

• President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry

1980 Birthday

• Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton, 1993-2001

• Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy

• Bani Sadr elected president of Iran

• President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow

• President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics

• Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal

1979 Event

• Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown

1979 Death

• Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered

• Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for president

• President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil

• Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees

• Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated

• President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education

• Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees

• Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president

• Somali constitution approved by president

• Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola

• Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed

• Agostinho Neto, poet/1st President of Angola, dies at 56

• President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga

• Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents

• President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves

• Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein

• President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty

• South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal

• West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president

• Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51

• Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo

• Carroll D. Rosenbloom, Los Angeles Rams president, dies at 72

• President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh

• Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria

• President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years

• Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President and (4 time Governor-R-New York), dies at 70

• President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

1978 Death

• Houari Boumediene, Algerian president, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53

1978 Event

• Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR

• Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives

• President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill

• President Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship

• President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio

• Aristides Royo elected president of Panama

• Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya

• Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares

• Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees

• Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II

• Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees

• Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy

• Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974

• Vice President Walter F. Mondale begins trip to Mid-East

• Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed

• Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered

• Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair

• Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany

• Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered

• Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel

• President Carter defers production of neutron bomb

• Hubert Humphrey, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969, dies at 66 in Waverly, Minnesota

• President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909

1977 Event

• Carter holds 1st news conference by U.S. President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)

• Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt

• Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset

• Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel

• Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel

• Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel

• President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran

• Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite

• President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981

• President Carter meets with 15 record company executives

• President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties

• Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus

• President Carter establishes Department of Energy

1977 Death

• Makarios III, Michail Mouskos, archbishop/president (Cyprus), dies at 63

• Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R.

• Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library

• U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns

• Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh

• Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter

• Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered

• U.S. president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland

• Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party

• Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter

• President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights

• Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame

• President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)

• President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

• President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)

• Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium

• Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament

1976 Event

• President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order

• Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq

• Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president

• Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford for president

• Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ

• 1st debate of major-ticket Vice President nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)

• President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"

• Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

• Egypt president Sadat re-elected

1976 Death

• Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86

• Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73

• President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention

• Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor

• Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City

• Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76

• Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of U.S. Conference of Mayors

• Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president

• Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military

• Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford

• Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves

1975 Event

• Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life

• Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford

• President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City

• U.S. president Gerald Ford visits China

• President Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped

• Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president

• Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S.

• President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside

• Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco California

• Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing

1975 Death

• Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92

• Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford

• Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman

• Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit

• Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz

• Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired

• President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president

• Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967

• Vice President Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA

• President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"

• South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30

1975 Birthday

• Andre Gower, actor, Baby Makes 5, Fathers and Sons, Mr. President

• Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

• N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies

• Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer

• Raymond Moley, U.S. advisor to President Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88

• Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakian president (1957-68), dies at 70

1974 Event

• Nelson A. Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st Vice President

• Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto

• General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal

• President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters

• President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes

• South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination

1974 Death

• Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered

• Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president

• President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9

• President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in

• House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up

• House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon

• Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees

• Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/president Com Palestine, dies

• General Pinochet becomes president of Chile

• Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina

• Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78

• U.S. president Nixon visits U.S.S.R.

• Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president

• Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred

• President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings

• President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House

• Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies

• Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed

• Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62

• Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president

• Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns

• Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up

• Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin

1973 Event

• AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees

• Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL president

• Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro T. Agnew

• Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as Vice President

• Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos

• President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate

• President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

• President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline

• President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal

• Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president

1973 Death

• Arabi El Goni, Vice President/Chad parliament, murdered

• President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athelete of 1st century

• U.S. president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox

• Juan Peron elected president of Argentina

• Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President

• Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns

• Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power

• President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

• Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup

• Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65

• Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws

• Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign

• Walter Ulbricht, President East Germany, dies at 80

• Mike Burke, President (New York Yankees)/dir (Madison Square Garden), dies

• President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation

• Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina

• Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda

• Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"

• Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records

• Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president

• President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up

• Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president

• ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election

• San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams

• Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland

• President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

• President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

• Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64

• Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

• New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life

• President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam

1972 Event

• Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea

1972 Death

• Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1945-53), dies in Kansas City, Missouri at 88

• Harry S. Truman, American President

• Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70

• Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81

• President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)

• Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law

• President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines

• Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley

• Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians

1972 Birthday

• Shinjiro Otani, born in Yamaguchi City, Japan, professional wrestler, WCW World Cruiserweight Champion, created Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE with Shinya Hashimoto, acting president of ZERO1

• Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out

• Juan Peron elected president of Argentina

• President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

• Chile president Allende forms new government

• Yugoslav president Tito visits U.S.S.R.

• U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow

• Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62

• Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President

• Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered

• Heinrich Lubke, West Germany president (1959-69), dies at 77

• "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 5 performances

• "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 5 performances

• General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia

• Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep

• President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China

• President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique

• President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing

• Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. president to visit China

• President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China

• President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time

• Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier

• President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle

1971 Event

• Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns

• President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term

• Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE

• West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev

• Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out

• President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents

• Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan

• President Nixon announces he would visit China

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

1971 Birthday

• Andre President, tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles

• President Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus

1971 Death

• William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76

• President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China

• President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free

• Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines

• Thomas E Dewey, U.S. president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68

• Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president

• Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria

• General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda

• Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2

• Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate

• "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 72 performances

1970 Event

• President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines

• Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico

1970 Death

• Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60

• Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79

• "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 72 performances

• President Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

• Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile

• Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile

• Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt

• Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser

• Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt

• Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar

• Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt President (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52

• President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

• Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands

• Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador

• President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18

• Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68

• Argentine military junta under Lieutenant-general Lanusse drives out President Ongania

• H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies

• Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies

• Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, dies

• President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on January 1, 1971

• U.S. president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"

• David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96

• Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered

• Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League

1969 Death

• Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67

• Kliment J Voroshilov, president U.S.S.R. (1953-60), dies

1969 Event

• Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon

• West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands

• Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias and distortion

• Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium

• Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali

• Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered

• Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam

• Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59

• Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Ta't-Tanh, North Vietnamese president, dies at 79

• George Preston Marshall, NFL president for the Washington Redskins, dies at 72

• President Nixon visits Romania

• Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France

• Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies

• Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France

• South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse

• Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

• Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president

• Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55

• U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

• Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany

• President Nixon visits West-Berlin

• Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO

• Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins

• Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered

• Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as president

• U.S. Congress doubles president salary

1968 Event

• President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power

• President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor

• Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela

• Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees

• Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted

• Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey

• Nixon (R) beats Vice President Humphrey (D) and George C. Wallace for presidency

• President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam

• China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji

• Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru

• Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees

• Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)

• Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague

• Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague

• Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for president

1968 Death

• Don Lillis, NFL president for the New York Jets

• Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms

• President De Gaulle disbands French parliament

• President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse

• Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president

• President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

• General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia

• Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia

• Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus

• Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one

• Former Vice President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for presidency

• Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia

1967 Event

• Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania

• Robert McNamara elected president of World bank

1967 Death

• Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies

• Yemen president Sallal flees

• Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep

• Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive Vice President of A's by Charlie Finley

1967 Birthday

• Amy Carter, President Carter's daughter/peace activist

• French president De Gaulle visits Poland

• Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution

• Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies

• Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-87), dies at 66

• Oskar Maria Graf, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels, dies at 72 in New York

• Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-67), dies at 66

• Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel

• Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India

• Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua

• Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank

• General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo

• Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44

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

• Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority

• Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)

• Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua

1966 Event

• President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger

• Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president

1966 Birthday

• Paula Jones, born in Lonoke, Arkansas, sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, case was dismissed but while on appeal Clinton paid Jones $850,000

• Malawi becomes a republic, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president

• Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic

1966 Death

• Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed

• Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

• Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution

• Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90

• 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

• Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82

1965 Event

• Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines

• French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)

• Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow

• Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium

• Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R.

• Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown

• Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes President of Zaire

1965 Death

• Henry A Wallace, Vice President (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77

• Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President

• Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines

• President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking

• Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90

• Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to UN/president candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies

• 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson

• Bernard M Baruch, President advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94

• Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired

• Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras

1965 Birthday

• Yahya Jammeh, born in Kanilai, Gambia, politician, President of Gambia, controlled the country as a result of a bloodless military coup, elected September 1996

• Franz Jonas elected president of Austria

• Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania

• Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto

• Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74

• East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt

• Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president

• Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63

1964 Event

• 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

• President Segni of Italy resigns

• Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president

• Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zaire

1964 Death

• Herbert Hoover, 31st president of U.S. (1929-33), dies in New York at 90

• J Howard Frazer, USTA president, dies in office

• Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile

• Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson

• Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/president (1951-58), dies at 70

• President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act

• Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon

• Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy

• Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate

• Barry M. Goldwater nominated for president by Republicans

• President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

• Otto V Kuusinen, President of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82

• Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted

• President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military

• Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy

• Margaret Chase Smith, Senator-R-Maine, tries for Republican President bid

1964 Birthday

• 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

• Jeff Bezos, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founder, President of Amazon.com, previously a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw & Co.

• President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

• Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan

• Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana

1963 Event

• Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends

• Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville

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

1963 Death

• John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46

• John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963, dies at age 46

• U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands

• Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62

• J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy

• Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria

• Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville

• Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days

1963 Birthday

• Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, lives only 3 days

• Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina

• General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria

• President Kennedy arrives in Rome

• Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru

• President Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland

• President Kennedy tours West-Europe

• "Mr. President" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 265 performances

• Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia

• Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer

• G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank

1962 Event

• President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington D.C.

1962 Death

• Rene Coty, President of France, dies at 80

• Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69

• "Mr President" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 265 performances

• Musical, "Mr President," written by Irving Berlin, opens on Bdwy

• French president De Gaulle visits West Germany

• Failed assassination on president De Gaulle

• Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale

• Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy

• Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)

• Antonio Segni elected president of Italy

• Georges Pompidou becomes president of France

• Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army

• Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees

• Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians

• South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st U.S. killed

• President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba

• French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence

• President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs

• Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails

• Diego Martinez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76

1961 Event

• Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization

1961 Death

• Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies

• President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)

• Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns

1961 Birthday

• 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

• Barack Obama, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, politician, Democratic party, 44th President of the United States, former U.S. Senator from Illinois 2005 - 2008

• ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69

• Paul Begala, born in New Jersey, political commentator, consultant, former advisor to President Bill Clinton, co-host on 'Crossfire' television show on CNN

• 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Washington D.C. residents to vote for president

• George Weiss becomes President of New York Mets

• Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party

• Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall

• President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp

• 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell

1960 Event

• Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast

• Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails

• John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th U.S. president

• Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil

1960 Death

• Wilhelm Pieck, president of East Germany (1949-60), dies at 84

• President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo

• Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago

• Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R.

• President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960

• South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns

• Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem

• President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament

• Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan

• Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle

• French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu

• Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president

1959 Event

• Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus

• Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus

• President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs. Australia Test Cricket at Karachi

• Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair

• President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination

• U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris

• Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League

• Vice President Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"

• Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R.

• Heinrich Lubke elected President of West-Germany

• Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St. Lawrence Seaway

• Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland

• President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua

• President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament

• Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR

1959 Death

• Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies

• French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill

• Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic

1958 Event

• Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France

• 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere")

• Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela

• General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan

• President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958

• President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months

• President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood

• Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico

• President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion

1958 Birthday

• Ronald Prescot Reagan, Jr., Louisiana, President son/TV host, Ron Reagon Show

• Rioters attack U.S. Vice President Nixon in Venezuela

• President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock

• Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru

• Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia

• Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina

• Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

• Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina

• Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president with 99.9 percent of the vote

• General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala

• Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic

• Peter R Mokaba, president, South African Youth Congress

1958 Death

• Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74

1957 Birthday

• Hamid Karzai, born in Karz, Afghanistan, Pashtun of the Popalzai tribe, Sunni Muslim, politician, Independent Party, 12th President of Afghanistan

1957 Event

• Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8

• President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech

• Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia

• Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, Vice President, Microsoft Desktop

1957 Death

• Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 72

• Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey

• Paul Kagame, born in Ruhango, Rwanda, politician, President of the Republic of Rwanda, formerly led the Rwandan Patriotic Front ending the Rwandan genocide

• President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant

• President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction

• Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered

• Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother

• 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

• 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower

• Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria

• Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash

• NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president

• Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves

• Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57), dies at 84

1956 Event

• Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns

• President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E. Stevenson (D)

1956 Death

• Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83

• Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67

• AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners

• ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day

• President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco

• Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt

• Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow

1956 Birthday

• Steve Ford, actor, Young and Restless, son of President Gerald Ford

• Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President

• Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY

• President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term

• Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65

• Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland

• New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build

• Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil

• Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine

1955 Event

• AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president

• Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president

• Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president

• Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil

• President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver

• Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees

1955 Birthday

• Mike Huckabee, born in Hope, Arkansas, politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas, Republican, candidate for President in 2008, host of 'Huckabee' television talk show

• Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria

• President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour

• 1st Vice President to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon

• Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Peron

• 1st President to appear on color TV, Eisenhower

• John Hinckley, Jr., shot and wounded President Reagan, 1981

• G. Gronchi elected president of Italy

• President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war

• President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam

• Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama

1955 Death

• Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama 1952 - 1955, assassinated

1954 Birthday

• 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 Event

• Egyptian President Naguib fired/state of emergency declared

• General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba

• President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem

• Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show

• Robert Kocharian, born in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, politician, President of Armenia 1998 - 2008, President of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1994 - 1997

1954 Death

• Getulio D Vargas, president/dictator Brazil: 1930 - 1945, 1951 - 1954, suicide at 71

• President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily

• Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay

• Hugo Chavez, born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, politician, United Socialist Party, Fifth Republic Movement, President of Venezuela

• Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany

• President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system

• Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala

• Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam

• President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge

• Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China

• President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China

• Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die

• Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli

• President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952

• Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism

1953 Event

• Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president

• Rene Coty elected President of France

• 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters)

• U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi

• President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee

1953 Birthday

• Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti, 1991, 1994-

• Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council

• Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president

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

• Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government

• President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill

• Antonin Zapotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia

1953 Death

• Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56

• President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

• Jeb Bush, politician, born in Midland, Texas, 43rd Governor of Florida, younger brother of former President George W. Bush

• 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

• James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU

• Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito)

• Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia

• J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club

• President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb

1952 Event

• Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president

• Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel

• Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel

• Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel

• Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela

1952 Death

• Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77

• Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)

• French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam

1952 Birthday

• Vladimir Putin, born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, second President of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister of Russia

• Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico

• General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile

• Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea

• President Truman settles 53-day steel strike

• 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

• Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president

• Gary Bettman, born in Queens, New York City, commissioner, National Hockey League, formerly, general counsel and president, National Basketball Association

• Gordon Smith, born in Pendleton, Oregon, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Oregon 1997 - 2009, President of the Oregon State Senate 1995 - 1997

• President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike

• Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st President of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70

1951 Birthday

• 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 Event

• President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany

• Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League

• NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball

• 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman

• President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

• Nicu Ceausescu, born in Romania, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds

• 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

• General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal

• President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany

• 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 Death

• Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President

• President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur

• 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms

• 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 Death

• Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80

1950 Birthday

• Karl Rove, born in Denver, Colorado, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, author, 'Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight'

• Ieremia Tabai, President of Kiribati, Gilbert Islands, 1979-91

1950 Event

• U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb

• South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions

• U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat

• Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala

• Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as Vice President/General Manager of Pittsburgh Pirates

• Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis

• Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House

• Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead

• Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president

• Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia

• President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike

• President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia

• President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai

• President Truman promises aid to Taiwan

• President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence

• Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey

• Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia

• President Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government

• Itumeleng J Mosala, South Africa president, Azanian People's Org

• Michael Ford, son of President Gerald and Betty Ford

• General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

• Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80

• Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland

• President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb

1949 Event

• Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier

• Georges Bidault elected president of France

• President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents

• Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of East Germany

• President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

• Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany

1949 Death

• Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death

1949 Birthday

• Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, 1990-92

• Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan, 1989-93

• Marilyn Quayle, wife of vice president Dan Quayle, 1989-93

• Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru, 1985-90

• Mary Maples Dunn, college president, Smith College

• Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president

• Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel

• President Truman announces his point 4 program

• President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"

1948 Event

• President Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey

1948 Death

• Eduard Benesj, president Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48), dies

1948 Birthday

• Tipper Gore, wife of vice president Al Gore, 1993-01

• President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York

• President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces

• Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President

• Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea

• President Truman nominated for another term

• Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia

• Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns

• Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel

• Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy

• Walter P Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit

• Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

• Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home

• Al Gore, born in Washington D.C., Senator-D-Tennessee, 1985 - 1992, 45th Vice President 1993 - 2000

• President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program

• U.S. president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan

1947 Birthday

• Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador, 1989-94

• Bechir Gemayel, President Lebanon, 8/23-9/14, 1982

• Aleksandr V Rutskoi, Ukrainian Hero of U.S.S.R./Vice President, 1991-

1947 Event

• President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert

• President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act

• Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson

• President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act

1947 Death

• Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62

• Emil Hacha, lawyer/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 74

• David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight, married Julie Nixon

• Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, president, Colombia, 1990-94

• Daphne Todd, president, Royal Society of Portrait Painters

• President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty

• President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States

• President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

• Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland

• Vincent Aurial elected president of France

1946 Event

• President Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

1946 Birthday

• Michael Ovitz, president, Walt Disney Co

• President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808

• Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub

• President Truman ends wage/price freeze

• Charles S. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University

• Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China

• President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine

• William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, 42nd U.S. President, D, 1993-01

• William J. Clinton, American President

• President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

• President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces

• George W. Bush, two-term American president 2000-2008

• Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy

1946 Death

• Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60

• President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike

• Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president, Mexico, 1988 - 1994

• Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of U.S.S.R.

• Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam

• Juan Peron elected President of Argentina

• Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president

• U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

• Tod Brannan, Vice President, Logos Network Corp

1945 Birthday

• Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua, 1984-90

• Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women

1945 Event

• President Truman ends Lend-Lease program

• President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter

• Jewell Jackson McCabe, President, national coaltion of 100 black women

• President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

• Alan Dukes, Irish president, Fine Gael

• Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd president

1945 Death

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

• Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42

• President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court

• Andrew Stein, President of New York City council, D

• Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president

• Frank J Biondi, Jr., president, HBO

• Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY

1944 Birthday

• M N Aubrey Mokoape, South Africa's Vice President, Azanian People Org

1944 Death

• Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, President of Philippines (1935-42), dies at 65

1944 Event

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention

• Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China

• Mary Robinson, President of Republic of Ireland, Labour, 1990-

• Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer, Good night mister president

1943 Birthday

• Tarja Halonen, born in Kallio, Finland, politician, lawyer, Social Democratic Party, first female President of Finland

1943 Event

• Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US

• 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu

• Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/president Jose Laurel)

• Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China

• Chiang Kai-shek became president of China

• Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S.

• Yoran Ben Ami, born in Israel, producer/president, Triumph Pictures

• Faye Wattleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sociologist/president, Planned Parenthood

• Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime

• 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)

1943 Death

• Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies

• 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

• Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66

1942 Birthday

• Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, president of Guatemala, 1986-91

• Joe McGinniss, Rye, New York, author, Selling of President 1968

• Joe Biden, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Senator-D-Delaware 1973 - 2009, 47th Vice President of the U.S.

1942 Event

• 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French

• Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers

• John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to President, Botha/De Klerk

1942 Death

• Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau

• President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C.

• Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatoriaal Guinee, 1979-

• Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73

• Kim Il Jong, son of North Korean President Kim Il Sung, 1972-94

• Kim Chong-Il, Yura, president of North-Korea, 1994-

• Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, President of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63

1941 Death

• Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies

1941 Birthday

• 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

• Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica, 1986-, Nobel 1987

• Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria, 1985-

1941 Event

• President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee

• U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act

• Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society

• 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 Death

• Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist

1940 Event

• Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected president

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)

• Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish Prime Minister 1932 - 1934, President 1936 - 1939, dies at 60

1939 Birthday

• Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives, 1978-

1939 Death

• Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73

• Joaquim Chissano, president of Mozambique, 1986-

• Leon Britain, vice president, Commission of European Communities

1939 Event

• Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania

• Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president, Childrens Defense Fund

• Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president

• Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59

• 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

• Albert Lebrun elected president of France

• Alan Rothenberg, U.S. Soccer President, 1990-

• Eleanor Smeal, feminist/president, NOW

• Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert

1938 Event

• Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president

1938 Death

• Kemal Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, general/president Turkey, dies at 57

1938 Birthday

• Niara Sudarkasa, Gloria M Clark, educator/president, Lincoln College

• Leonid Kuchma, born in Chaikyne, Ukraine, statesman, politician, President of independent Ukraine 1994 - 2005

• Alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru, 1990-

• Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire

• Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/president, Beaumont College

• A Bartlett Giamatti, born in Boston, President of Yale and baseball commissioner, 1989

• A. J. Bellingham, president, Royal College of Pathologists

• President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies

• Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University

• Kathleen Richardson, president, Methodist Conference

• Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank

1937 Death

• Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72

• Tomas G. Masaryk, philosopher/president of Czechoslovakian 1918 - 1935, dies at 87

1937 Birthday

• Sandy Stewart, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, singer, Sing Along With Mitch, Mr. President

• Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies

• Jacques Santer, President, European Commission

• Saddam Hussein, At-Takriti, president of Iraq, 1979 - 2003

• Billy Carter, Plains Georgia, brother of President Carter

• Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda, 1973-94

• David Ward, president, Law Society

• Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president, Sierra Leone

1937 Event

• Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua

1936 Event

• Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua

1936 Birthday

• Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon

• Johnnetta B. Cole, educator and president Spellman College

• Vaclav Havel, writer/president Czechoslovakia, 1989-92

• Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president, Law Society

• Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia, 1987-

• Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College

• Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power

• R. Ronald Venetian, president Suriname, 1991-

• Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party

• Manuel Azana elected president of Spain

• Michael Livesay, British admiral and president, RN College Greenwich

• Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru, writer, Aunt Julia, and President candidate

• Philip Ely, president, British Law Society

• Ron Carey, union President, Teamsters

1936 Death

• John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67

• A flag is authorized for Vice President

• Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president

• Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants

• L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America

• Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, president of Uruguay, 1985-90, 95-

• Charles A Stoneham, President (New York Giants), dies

1935 Birthday

• 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 Event

• Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia

• France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles, 1977-

• Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines

• Abdou Diouf, president of Senegal, 1981-

• Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador

• Trevor Chinn, born in England, businessman, CEO, Lex Garages, entrepreneur, philanthropist, President, the Joint Israel Appeal

• Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance, PvdA, President, Nethche Bank

• Zhelyu Zhelev, president of Bulgaria, 1990-

• Gillian Beer, professor/president, Clare Hall-Cambridge

• President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"

1934 Birthday

• 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 Event

• Ford Frick becomes president of baseball's National League

• Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president

• Umberto Agnelli, Vice President, Fiat

1934 Death

• Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74

• Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union

• Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal

• 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia

• General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico

• Leslie Turnberg, president, Royal College of Physicians

• Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia

• John A. Ziegler, Jr., Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 4th NHL President, 1977-92

• Bill White, U.S., 1st baseman, Cards, announcer, Yankees, President, NL

• Carla Hills, politician, U.S. President Commission on Housing-1982

1933 Event

• Brazilians president Getulio Vargas names himself dictator

1933 Birthday

• Michael S Dukakis, Gov-D-Mass, 1988 President Candidate

• Samora Machel, president Mocambique, 1975-86

• Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista

• 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

• Spanish president Zamora takes power

1933 Death

• Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza

• Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany

• 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."

• German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion

• Paul Biya, president of Cameroon since 1982

• 20th Amendment goes into effect: President term begins in Jan not March

• President von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament

• German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press

• German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor

• Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines, 1986-92

• Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60

1932 Birthday

• Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea, 1988-93

1932 Event

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time

• Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti, 1986-88

1932 Death

• Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded

• President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment

• Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death

• President Hoover cuts own salary 15%

• New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago

• President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention

• Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile

• Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France

• Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov

• President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week

• Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts

• F. W. de Klerk, president South Africa, 1989-94

• Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland

• Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party, CDA

1931 Event

• Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China

• Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain

• Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile

• Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out

1931 Birthday

• Lawrence K. Grossman, News president, NBC-TV

• George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus, 1988-93

• Paul Doumer elected president of France

• Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president

• Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland

• Isabel Peron, Maria Martinez, dancer/president Argentina

• Boris Yeltsin, born in Russia, first President of the Russian Federation, endorsed free market economies

1930 Birthday

• Joseph-Desire Kuku NWZA Mobutu Sese Seko, president Zaire, 1965-

• Hafez al Assad, president, Syria

• Carl Barger, Lewistown Pennsylvania, baseball President, Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins

• Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina, 1989-

• Vigdis Finnbogadottir, president of Iceland, 1980-

• Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College, Oxford

• David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland

• Derek Bok, college president, Harvard

• Pat Robertson, televangelist, 700 club, President candidate-R-1989

1930 Event

• President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington

1930 Death

• William H. Taft, 27th U.S. President 1909 - 1913, Chief Justice, dies at 72

• Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists

• Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier and president, Sudan

1929 Birthday

• Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president

1929 Death

• Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90

1929 Event

• Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece

• Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico

• Severn Darden, actor, Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th

• Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua, 1990-

• President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war

• President Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I

• Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy, 1985-

• President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam

• Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology

• Harvey Lichtenstein, President, Brooklyn Academy of Music

• Hugh Desmond Hoyte, president, Guyana, 1985-92

• Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President

• Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president

• President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park

• Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama

• 27 year old William S. Paley becomes CBS president

1928 Event

• John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea

• NL President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers

• MW Miklas elected president of Austria

• Herbert Hoover (R) elected president

• Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E. Smith (D) for president

• Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua

• President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"

1928 Birthday

• Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA, Angola

• Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China

1928 Death

• Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated

• Evan G. Galbraith, born in Ohio, United States Ambassador to France under President Ronald Regan, investment banker

• Alfred E. Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention

• Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president, 1981-

• Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/president, l'ASIFA

• Robert Mugabe, president, Zimbabwe, 1988-

• Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College-Oxford

• Alan J. Pakula, director, All the President's Men, Klute

• Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82

• Fidel V Ramos, President, Phillipines

• Walter Fritz Mondale, born in Ceylon, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1964 - 1976, 42nd Vice President, 1977 - 1981

• Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier, Pakistan

1927 Birthday

• M Lawrence Antouin, college president, Emeritis

1927 Event

• Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president

• Houari Boumedienne, president of Algeria, 1965-78

• John Warr, England, cricket bowler, avg 281, president, MCC

• Simone Veil, President European parliament, France

1927 Death

• Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated

• Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/president candidate, Smothers Bros Show

• Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president

• Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president

• Raul Alfonsin, president, Argentina

• 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

• President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)

• President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference

• NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants

• Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras, 1986-90

1926 Event

• Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece

1926 Death

• Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92

• Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos

1926 Birthday

• Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/president, Laura Ashley

• Don Carter, bowling great, 1st PBA president

• Ralph D Abernathy, U.S., president, SCLC

• Symon Petljoera, President Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris

• Mordecai W. Johnson becomes president of Howard University

• Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland

• Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup

• Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union

• Robin Cooke, President, New Zealand Court of Appeal

• Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president

• Raul Alfonsin, Argentine President, 1983-89

• Valery Giscard d'Estaing, President of France, 1974-81

1925 Birthday

• Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua, 1967..79

• Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador

• Charles Haughey, Irish president, 1979-81, 82, 87-92

1925 Death

• Ed McKeever, President (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia

• 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

• Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania, 1985-

• Charles Ebbets, Dodgers President, dies

• Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58

1925 Event

• President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations

• Al Rosen, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 3rd baseman, AL MVP 1953, N.Y. Yankee president

• Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies

• Hal Holbrook, born in Cleveland, actor, All the President's Men, Mark Twain

• Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola

• Fred Catherwood, born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, politician, writer, Conservative member of the European Parliament, president of Evangelical Alliance

• Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu

• Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president

1924 Birthday

• Mokta Ould Daddah, president Mauritania, 1961-78

1924 Event

• Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president

• Calles becomes president of Mexico

• U.S. president Calvin Coolidge re-elected

• Shirley Chisholm, D-Rep-NY, 1st black congresswoman/president candidate

• President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument

• Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia, D, 39th President, 1977-1981

• General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico

• Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia

• Phyllis Schlafly, St. Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president

• Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka, 1989-93

• Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party

• George H. W. Bush, Massachusetts, 43rd Vice President 1981 - 1989, 41st President 1989 - 1993

• Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC

• President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration

• Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president, Gambia, 1970-94

• Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece

• Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president, Zambia, 1964-91

1924 Death

• Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-21), dies

• Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe

• Margaret Truman, born in Missouri, singer, writer, only daughter of President Harry and Bess Truman

• Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

• Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67

• Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/president, California State University at Fullerton

1923 Birthday

• Lucas M Mangope, 1st president of Bophuthatswana, 1977-94

• 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

• Mauno Koivisto, president of Finland, 1982-94

1923 Death

• Jacob T Cremer, President (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76

1923 Event

• Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president

• Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding

• V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president

• Warren Harding, 29th President (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel San Francisco at 57

• Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)

• Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90

• J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated

• Gerald Gotting, East Germany president, CDU

• Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Organization, 1955-79

• Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president, 1965-75

• President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes

• Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president, Wolfson at Oxford

• Christy Mathewson becomes President of Boston Braves

• Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton, Illinois, banker, President of World Bank

• Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC, Taiwan, head of KMT, 1988-

1922 Event

• Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president

1922 Death

• Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated

• Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president

1922 Birthday

• Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua, 1956-63

• Norodom Sihanouk, king/president/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA

• Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela, 1974-79/89-94

• German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925

• President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

• President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem

• Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies

• George McGovern, born in Avon, South Dakota, Representative-D-South Dakota 1957 - 1961, Senator-D-South Dakota 1963 - 1981, Democratic President candidate 1972

• President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

• German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich

• William Manchester, born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, historian, Death of a President

• Arnold Burgen, college president, Academia Europaea

• Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO

• Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico

• Ahmed Sekou Toure, president of Guinea, 1957-84

1921 Birthday

• 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 Event

• President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes

• President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary)

• Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia, 1986-90

• Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system

• Patrick Howard-Dobson, president, Royal British Legion

• Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana, Bechuanaland

• Suharto, general/president Indonesia, 1967-

• President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show

• Paul Daels, president, Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee

• Ian Todd, President, Royal College of Surgeons

1920 Birthday

• Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos, Pathet Lao, 1991-92

1920 Event

• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson

• Warren G. Harding elected president

• Warren Harding elected 29th president

• J K Gill, president, Saatchi and Saatchi

• Alexander Millerand elected president of France

• Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president

• A's Vice President Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier

• Ratu Kasmisere Mara, Prime Minister of Fiji, 1960 - 1970, 1970-, President, 1994 -

• U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal

• Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president, Germany, 1984-94

• Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia

1920 Death

• Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60

• Paul Deschanel elected president of France

1919 Event

• Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson

1919 Birthday

• Moise Tshombe, President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo, Zaire

• President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden

• President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed

• U.S. President Wilson hit by a heart attack

• President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke

• George C Wallace, Clio Ala, gov-D-Ala, President candidate

• President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate

• President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference

• Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president

• William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president

• Kingman Brewster, college president, Yale

• Charles Palmer, cricketer, one Test 1955, later MCC president

• Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann

• Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany

• NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers

1919 Death

• Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901 - 1909, dies in New York at 60

1918 Birthday

• Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, 1970 - 1981, Nobel 1978

• Kurt Waldheim, born in Austria, Austrian diplomat, politician, Secretary-General of the U.N., ninth President of Austria

1918 Event

• Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)

• John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

• President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office

• Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile, 1990-94

• Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland

• Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president

• Spiro Theodore Agnew, R, 39th Vice President, 1968-75, crook

• Chaim Herzog, president, Israel, 1983-93

• Chaim Herzog, Israeli president

• Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/president Netherlands Bank

• Nelson Mandela, born in Qunu, South Africa, political prisoner, ANC, President, 1994-

• Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party

• N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad

• Roger de Grey, president, Royal Academy

• President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal

• Maurice Laing, life president, John Laing

• Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president, 1967-90

• Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, 1954-1971

• President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I

1917 Birthday

• Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad and Tobago, 1976-87

• Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated

• Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines President, 1965-86

• Charles Kerruish, president, Tyndwald Isle of Man

1917 Event

• Secret Service extends protection of president to his family

• John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963

• Theodore Hesburgh, Syracuse, New York, president, Notre Dame

• President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

• Jane Wyman, born in Missouri, actress, film, television, Academy Award-winner, first wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan

1916 Death

• Marthinus T Steyn, President of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59

1916 Event

• Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president

1916 Birthday

• Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France, 1981-95

• Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56

• Official flag of president of U.S. adopted

• Norman Griggs, Vice President, Building Society Association

• Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president, Israel

• U.S. president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act

• Eugene J. McCarthy, born in Watkins, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota, President candidate 1968

• Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers

• A. P. W. Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa

1915 Event

• President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt

• President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt

1915 Birthday

• Augusto Pinochet, general/president, Chile

• Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st President to attend a World Series game

• Alexander Durie, vice president, British AA

1915 Death

• General Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies

• Modibo Keita, president of Mali, 1960-68

• Theodore H White, historian and writer, Making of President

• Rudolf Kirchschlager, president of Austria, 1974-86

• U.S. President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

1914 Birthday

• Karl Carstens, German, CDU, President Germany, 1979-84

1914 Death

• Elbrige Gerry, Vice President (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70

1914 Event

• President Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

• Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe

• Willi Stoph, president East Germany

• President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day

• China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification

• Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela

• Nello Celio, Swiss president

• General Zamon becomes president of Haiti

1913 Event

• President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law

• John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League

• President Wilson says U.S. will never attack another country

• Huerta elected president of Mexico

• Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China

1913 Birthday

• Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala, 1951-54, ; overthrown by CIA

• Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, President South Afr Pan-African Congress, 1986-

• Makarios III, Michail Moeskos, archbishop/president Cyprus

• Gerald R. Ford, 41st Vice President, 1973-74, 38th President, R-1974-77

• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India

• Sanjiva Reddy, president, India

• William R. Tolbert, president Liberia, 1971-80

• Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China

• President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1

• Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president

1913 Death

• Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39

• Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup

• President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico

• Raymond Poincare installed as president of France

• Raymond Poincare elected president of France

• Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia, 1975 - 1989

• Richard M. Nixon, 37th President, 1968-74

1912 Birthday

• Heinz Galinski, President, Central council for Jews in Germany

1912 Event

• Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and President Taft (R)

• Erich Honecker, Germany, President, East Germany

• Lord Kissin, president, GPG

• Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for president

• Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier

• David Brower, environmentalist/president, Sierra Club

• Richard D'Aeth, president, Hughes Hall Cambridge

• AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball

• Kim II Sung, President of North Korea, 1945-94

1911 Event

• Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China

1911 Death

• Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered

• Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico

1911 Birthday

• Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president

• Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal

• General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti

• J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president, Church and Peace

• Georges Pompidou, banker/premier/president France

• Hubert Humphrey, born in Wallace, South Dakota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969

• Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz

• New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft

• Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society

• President/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends

• Edgar Beck, president, John Mowlem

• Robert Joseph Kane, born in Ithaca, New York, President of U.S. Olympic Commission, 1976

• Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies

• Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico

• Sylvstre A. Guzman Fernandez, president, Dominican Republic

• U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras

• Ronald Reagan, born in Illinois, 40th President, Republican, 1981 - 1989

• A G Ogston, president, Trinity College-Oxford

• Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile, 1964-70

• Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000

1910 Birthday

• Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India, 1987-92

• Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist, Men Around the President

• Diosdado Macapagal, Philippines president, 1961-65

• Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women

• Gordon B. Hinckley, born in Utah, religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council

• Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico

1910 Event

• Taft is 1st President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game

• President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day

• Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal

• Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek/President, 1978-88

1909 Event

• U.S. pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office

• Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League

• U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya

1909 Birthday

• Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66

• Julio A Abraham, president, Democratic Party Bonaire

• John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

• Souphanouvong, Red Prince, president of Laos, 1975-87

• Andrei Gromyko, U.S.S.R., diplomat/U.S.S.R. President, 1985-89, 7/18 NS]

• Juan Bosch, poet/president of Dominican Republic, 1962-63

1909 Death

• Israel Durham, Phillies president dies

• Cecil Marley, cricketer, Jamaican batsman 1928 - 1946, WICBC president

• Obafemi Awolowo, born in Nigeria, President of Nigeria, 1979-83

• President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm

1908 Birthday

• Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina, 1958-62

1908 Death

• Tomas Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies

1908 Event

• William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan

• Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall, Texas, D, 36th President, 1963-1969

• Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

• Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73

• Nelson Rockefeller, American Vice President

• Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, 1885 - 1889, 1893 - 1897, dies at 71

• Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia

• 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

• Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela, 1945-48, 1958-64

1907 Birthday

• Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68

• Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic

• Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO

• Paul O'Dwyer, President of City Council, D-NYC

• Paul Mellon, U.S., oil magnate/president, Washington National Gallery of Art

1907 Death

• Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered

• Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan

• Harold Stassen, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Governor, Republican perennial President candidate

1907 Event

• President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

1906 Event

• U.S. president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo

• President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize

• Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama)

• T. Roosevelt is 1st President to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)

1906 Birthday

• Alfred Whitney Griswold, born in Morristown, New Jersey, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963

• Joe Cronin, baseball, Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL President

• Leopold Sedor Senghor, poet/president of Senegal, 1960-80

• Junius Richard Jayawardene, president, Sri Lanka, 1978-89

• Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention

• John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College

• Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel

• Eric Mensforth, president, Westland Aircraft

• Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi, 1964-94

• Eric William Fenby, composer/president, Delius Society

• President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in U.S. press

• President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"

• Galo Plaza Lasso, President of Ecuador, 1948-52, head of OAS, 1968-75

1906 Death

• Bartolome Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84

1905 Birthday

• Emilio Medici, president Brazil, 1969-74

• Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory coast, 1960-93

• Clarence Campbell, born in Saskatchewan, 3rd NHL President, 1946-77

1904 Birthday

• Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakia, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68

• W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president

1904 Event

• President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)

• James R Killian, Jr., MIT President, 1948-59

1904 Death

• S J Paul Kruger, general/president South Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78

• Mary Calderone, physician and president and co-founder of the SIECUS

• Ernesto de la Guardia, Jr., President of Panama, 1956-60

• Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president, U.N. General Assembly

1903 Event

• Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message

1903 Birthday

• Ashley Clarke, president, Venice in Peril Fund

• Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina

• President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco

• Benjamin M. Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party

• Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge

• Nikolaj V Podgorny, President U.S.S.R., 1965-77

1903 Death

• George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83

• Ramon Ernesto Cruz Ucles, Honduras president, 1971-72, ; overthrown

• President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1902 Birthday

• Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president, Netherlands Bank

1902 Event

• S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht

• Arturo da Costa e Silva, marshal/president of Brazil, 1967-69

• Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president, 1946-52

• Juscelino Kubitschek, president Brazil, 1955-60

• Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president, 20th Century Fox

• President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st U.S. chief executive to ride in a car

• Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president, J Sansbury Pics

• Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia, 1957-87

1902 Death

• 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

• Jean Rey, Belgium, President of European Commission, 1967-70

• Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator-R, ambassador, Vice President candidate 1960

1901 Birthday

• Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president

1901 Death

• Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted

• 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

• William Samuel Paley, born in Chicago, Illinois, president and CEO of CBS, 1928-90

1901 Event

• 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of President William McKinley

• President William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted

• President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later

• Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"

• Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, 1940-41, 49-51, 68

• Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st President Rep South Africa, dies at 81

• President McKinley visits San Francisco

• Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67

• President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president

• Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt, 1952-54

• Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba, 1933-44, 1952-59

• Ngo Dinh Diem, president/dictator of South Vietnam, 1955-63

1900 Event

• Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession

• South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany

• South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders

• President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan

• AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace

• South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe

1900 Birthday

• Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/president, 1964-67

• President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique

• Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland, 1956-81

• Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina, 1963-66

• President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin

• Owen Aisher, president, Marley

• President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris

• Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon

• President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein

• Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees

• Adlai E Stevenson, Gov-D-Ill, President candidate, D, 1952, 1956

1899 Event

• Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor

1899 Death

• Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice President, dies

• South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum

1899 Birthday

• Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/president, Pennsylvania State

• Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany

• Konstantijn Tsatsos, president Greece

• James B. Connant, chemist/college president, Yale

• President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.)

• Francois Felix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57

• U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam

• Kenjiro Takayanagi, Vice President, JVC

1898 Birthday

• Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy, 1964-71

• Lillian Carter, President Carter's, 1977-1981, mom

• Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL President, 1943-46

• Johannes J Fouche, president South Africa

• Eugene R. Black, U.S., President of World Bank, 1953-62

1898 Event

• U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors

• Grantley H. Adams, president of Barbados

• President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration

1897 Death

• Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74

1897 Event

• William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US

1896 Birthday

• Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1946-53

1896 Event

• William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president

• Sandro Pertini, president Italy

• Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society

• Warren Giles, baseball's National League president

• Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/president of Nicaragua, 1937-56

1896 Death

• Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies

• Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid

1895 Birthday

• William V S Tubman, Whig, 17th Liberian president, 1943-70

• Juan Peron, Argentine President, 1946 - 1955, 1973 - 1974

• Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP

• Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization

• John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man

1895 Event

• French president Casimir-Perier resigns

• Felix Faure installed as president of France

1894 Birthday

• Heinrich Lubke, West German president, 1959-69

1894 Death

• Rafael Nunez, president (Colombia)/writer (La fonolgia Moderna), dies

• Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68

• Oskar Maria Graf, born in Berg, Germany, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels

1894 Event

• Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president

• M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56

• Francisco H. Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general and president, 1951-58

• Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91

• Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman, 1st President of UN

1893 Birthday

• Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8

• Walter Ulbricht, president East Germany

1893 Event

• Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time

• Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term)

• Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63

1893 Death

• Rutherford B Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70

• Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74

• U.S. President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy

1892 Event

• Grover Cleveland (D) elected president

1892 Birthday

• Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines

1891 Birthday

• Rafael L Trujillo Molina, president/dictator of Dom Rep, 1930-61

1891 Event

• Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio

• Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, University of California

• President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco

• Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council

• Antonio Segni, premier/president, Italy

1890 Birthday

• Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France, 1958-69

• Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines, 1949-53

• Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison, Texas, R, 34th President, 1953 - 1961, General, WW 2

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

1890 Event

• President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned

• Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957

• Adolf Scharf, president Austria, 1957-65

1889 Event

• President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium

1889 Death

• Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States 1861 - 1865, dies at 81

1889 Birthday

• Enrico Celio, president, born in Switzerland

• President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization

• Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president

• President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana and Washington state

• Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president

1888 Birthday

• Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild

1888 Event

• Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes

• Henry A Wallace, D/P, 33rd Vice President, 1941-45, founder Progressive Party

• Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President

1888 Death

• Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president, India, philosopher

• Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president

• Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president

1887 Event

• French president Grevy (80) resigns

1887 Birthday

• Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province China, President of Nationalist China

• Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy

• Alfred M Landon, R-Ks, President candidate, 1932, 1936

• President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois

• Benegal Narsing Rau, India, President of United Nations Security Council, 1950

1886 Event

• American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president

1886 Death

• Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-85), dies in New York at 56

• Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland

• President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence

1886 Birthday

• Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman, President United Nations security council-1948

1885 Death

• Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office

• Ulysses S Grant, 18th U.S. president, dies in Mount McGregor, New York, at 63

• Ulysses S. Grant, American President

1885 Birthday

• Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil, 1945-50

1885 Event

• Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War

• Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland, 1939-40

1884 Birthday

• Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia

• Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovakian president, Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel

• Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48

1884 Event

• Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st President term

• Ismet Inonu, Moestafa Ismet, Turkish gen/premier/president

• Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President

• Vincent Auriol, president of France, 1947-53

• Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist, Dona Barbara, President, 1947-48

• Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1921-22, 35-48

• Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd U.S. President, D, 1945-1953

• Harry S. Truman, American President

1883 Event

• Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and Governor Cleveland

1883 Birthday

• Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, 1930-45, 1951-54, modernizer

• Paul Kruger chosen president of Transvaal

1883 Death

• Alexander H Stephens, Vice President Confederate States, dies at 71

1882 Birthday

• Eamon DeValera, New York, President of Ireland, 1937-48, 51-54, 57-59

1882 Death

• Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged

• Rene Coty, born in Le Harve, France, president of France, 1953-58

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, born in Hyde Park, New York, 32nd President, D, 1933 - 1945

1881 Event

• Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination

1881 Birthday

• Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56

• William J Clothier, 1st President of tennis hall of fame, U.S. Open 1906

• Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president

1881 Death

• James A Garfield, 20th president (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49

• James A. Garfield, American President

• President Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker

• Kemal Ataturk, 1st President of Rep of Turkey

• James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president

• South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire

• Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland, 1944-52, poet, Figur ild

• William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32

• Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president U.S.S.R., 1953-60

1880 Event

• James A. Garfield (R) elected president

1880 Birthday

• Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president, 1921-39

• William T. Cosgrave, president Irish Free state

• Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24

• Manuel Azana y Diaz, PM/president of 2nd Spanish republic, 1936-39

1879 Birthday

• Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, President of 1st Soviet,

1879 Event

• French President MacMahon resigns

• Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education

1878 Birthday

• Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, 1st president of Philippines, 1935-42

• George M. Cohan, actor/singer, Phantom President, Give My Regards to Broadway

1878 Event

• DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)

• Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield

• Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian President of IOC, 1925-42

1877 Birthday

• Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President

• Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president, 1924-28

1877 Death

• Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80

• Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies

• Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain, 1931-36

1877 Event

• President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends

• President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C.

• Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president

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

• Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory

• Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics

1876 Event

• U.S. Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won)

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

1876 Death

• Antonio L de Santa Ana, President Mexico, dies at 79

1876 Birthday

• Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina, 1931-38

• President Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring

• Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60

1875 Death

• Andrew Johnson, 17th president, dies in Tennessee at 66

1875 Event

• President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi

1874 Birthday

• Juan Bautista Sacasa, President of Nicaragua, 1932-36

1874 Event

• 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant

• Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman, 1st President

• Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, R, 31st President, 1929-1933

• Herbert Hoover, American President

• Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown U

• Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy, 1948-55

• Stephen Samuel Wise, U.S., President of Zionist Org of America

1874 Death

• Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74

1873 Birthday

• Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president, 1911-13

• David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th President of Mormon church

1873 Event

• Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President

• President Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians

• Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism

• Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president

• William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, 1924-52

1872 Event

• Ulysses S. Grant re-elected U.S. president

1872 Birthday

• Emil Hacha, lawyer/president, Czechoslovakia

• Calvin Coolidge, Silent Cal, Plymouth Vt, R, 30th President, 1923-29

• Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president

1871 Event

• President Grant re-elected

• President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus

• President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan

1871 Birthday

• Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania

• 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)

1870 Birthday

• Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president, 1918-20, 45-50

• Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president Finland

1870 Event

• Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud

1870 Death

• Francisco Solano Lopez, Field Marshal/president of Paraguay

• George A. Smith, born in Salt Lake City Utah, 8th President of Mormon church

• Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president

• Francisco S Lopez, President of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43

1869 Death

• Franklin Peirce, 14th president 1853 - 1857, dies in Concord, New Hampshire at 64

1869 Birthday

• Karl Seitz, president of Austria

1869 Event

• Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president

1868 Event

• Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)

1868 Birthday

• John Nance Garner, D, 32nd Vice President, 1933-41

• Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, president of Argentina, 1922-28

• President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day

1868 Death

• James Buchanan, 15th U.S. president (1857-61), dies at 77

• President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote

• By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson

• Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial

• U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson

• House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson

1867 Event

• U.S. Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson

• President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

• Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto

• President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska

1867 Birthday

• Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland, 1944-46

• Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto

• Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto

1866 Event

• President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

1866 Birthday

• Cornelis J K van Aalst, president, Dutch Trading Company

• Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto

• President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

• President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment

1865 Birthday

• Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, R, 29th President, 1921-23

• Warren G. Harding, American President

1865 Event

• President Johnson paroles CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens

• Charles Gates Dawes, R, 30th Vice President, 1925-29, Nobel 1925

• Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President

• President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx

• President Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states

• President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia

• President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis

1865 Death

• Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865

• President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth

• CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia

• President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball

• President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president

• Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker and president, Bank of Java

• President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners

• Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 1st president of Finland, 1919-25

1864 Event

• Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president

• John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln

1864 Death

• Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies

• President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service

• CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood

• Abe Lincoln renominated for President by Republican Party

1863 Event

• President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters

1863 Birthday

• Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France, 1913..34

• President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

1863 Death

• Samuel Houston, 1st President of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70

• President Davis orders service duty for confederate army

• President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer

• Augusto Bernardino Leguia y Salcedo, president of Peru, 1908, 1919

• President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address

• President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful

1862 Event

• President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union

• President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians

• President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1

1862 Death

• Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71

• Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president

• Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook New York at 79

1862 Birthday

• Nicholas Murray Butler, U.S., Columbia University president and pacifist, Nobel 1931

• Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln

• John Tyler, 10th U.S. President (1841-45), dies in Richmond Virginia at 71

1861 Event

• Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president

• Former Vice President John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky

• President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy

• President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory

• President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus

• U.S. president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states

• Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Lincoln

• Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president

• President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office

• Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Alabama

• Abraham Lincoln declared president

• Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America

• Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy

• President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession

1860 Event

• Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, elected 16th president 1861 - 1865

1860 Birthday

• Raymond Poincare, France, president/PM, 1912

• Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president

• Charles Curtis, R, 31st U.S. Vice President, 1929-33

1859 Birthday

• Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico, 1915-20

• Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator

1858 Birthday

• Theodore Roosevelt, born in New York City, R, 26th President, 1901 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize 1906

1858 Event

• Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan

1857 Birthday

• Marthinus T Steyn, President of Orange-Free state, 1896-1902

• William Howard Taft, Cin, R, 27th President, 1909-13, chief justice

• Paul Doumer, Governor-Generall of Indo-China/13th President of France, 1931-32

• Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College

1856 Birthday

• Woodrow Wilson, American President

• Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church

1856 Event

• James Buchanan elected U.S. president

1855 Birthday

• Robert Marion La Follette, born in Wisconsin, President candidate, Progressive

1854 Birthday

• Thomas Riley Marshall, D, 28th Vice President, 1913-21

1853 Death

• William King, U.S. Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration

1853 Event

• William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. Vice President

1852 Event

• Future president and Mrs. Rutherford B Hayes marry

• Franklin Pierce elected as president of U.S.

1852 Birthday

• Charles W. Fairbanks, R, 26th U.S. Vice President, 1905 - 1909

1851 Event

• President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France

1851 Birthday

• Roque Saenz Pena, President of Argentina, 1910-14

• David Starr Jordan, New York, biologist/university President, Leland Stanford

• GGeneralen Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera

1850 Birthday

• Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina, 1916-22, 1928-30

1850 Event

• Vice President Fillmore becomes President following Zachary Taylor's death

1850 Death

• Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-50), dies in White House at 65

• Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of U.S. (replacing Taylor)

• John Munroe Longyear, U.S., capitalist/bank president

• Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College

• Tomas G. Masaryk, born in Czechoslovakia, Father/President of Czechoslovakia, 1918-35

• Samuel Gompers, Dutch/U.S. 1st president, American Federation of Labor

1849 Death

• 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.

• James Knox Polk, 11th President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tennessee at 53

1849 Event

• Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so

• Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president

• 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 Event

• President Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms California gold discovery

• General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US

• Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president

• Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for president

1848 Death

• John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President 1825 - 1829, dies of a stroke at 80

• James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady

1847 Birthday

• Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president

• Jacob T Cremer, Minister of Colonies/president, Dutch Trading Comp

1845 Birthday

• Gustave Ador, union president of Austria, 1919

1845 Death

• Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th President (1828-37), dies at 78

1845 Event

• James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president

• President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas

• Uniform U.S. election day for president and Vice President authorized

• Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association

1844 Event

• James K Polk elected 11th president of US

• U.S. President John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in New York City

1844 Birthday

• Garret Augustus Hobart, R, 24th U.S. Vice President, 1897-99

1843 Death

• Cornelis PJ Elout, military/president of West Sumatra, dies at 47

1843 Birthday

• William McKinley, Niles Ohio, R, 25th President, 1897-1901

1842 Birthday

• Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, American Home Economics Association - 1st President

1842 Death

• Letitia Tyler, President Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51

1841 Death

• William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st President to die in office, at 68

1840 Event

• William H Harrison elected president of US

1839 Event

• Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

1838 Birthday

• Emile Loubet, premier/president of France, 1892, 1899-1906

• Joseph F Smith, 6th President of Mormon church

• John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln

1837 Birthday

• Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated

• Grover Cleveland, born in New Jersey, 22nd/24th President, 1885-89, 93-97

1837 Event

• Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president

• U.S. president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas

• 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)

1836 Event

• Martin Van Buren elected 8th president

• Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas

1836 Death

• Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President, dies

• Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas

• James Madison, 4th U.S. President (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Virginia at 85

1835 Birthday

• Adlai Stevenson, D, 23rd Vice President, 1893-97

1835 Event

• Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington D.C.

• 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 Event

• Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of U.S.

1834 Birthday

• Charles William Elliot, born in Boston, President of Harvard, 1869-1909

• President Jackson orders 1st use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute

1833 Birthday

• Benjamin Harrison, born in North Bend, Ohio, R, 23rd President, 1889-1893

1832 Event

• John Calhoun becomes 1st Vice President to resign over differences with President Jackson

• Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US

1832 Birthday

• Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell

• President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US

1831 Event

• Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives

1831 Birthday

• James A. Garfield, American President

1831 Death

• Joannis Capodistrias, President of Greece (1829-31), murdered

• James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73

1830 Death

• Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia

1830 Birthday

• Chester Alan Arthur, Fairfield Vt, R, 21st President, 1881-85

• Chester A. Arthur, American President

• Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico, 1877-1911

1830 Event

• Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president

1829 Event

• President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses

• Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president

• Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball

1828 Death

• Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson, dies

1828 Event

• Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US

1828 Birthday

• Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela

1826 Birthday

• Francisco S Lopez, Tiran, president of Paraguay, 1862-70

1826 Death

• John Adams, 2nd president 1797-1801, dies at 90

• Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83

1825 Event

• President John Quincy Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory

1825 Birthday

• Paulus Kruger, President of South African Republic, 1883, Boer leader

• Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president, 188?..94

1825 Death

• Daniel D Tompkins, 6th U.S. Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54

• John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president

• House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president

1824 Event

• Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president

1824 Birthday

• Levi Parsons Morton, R, 22nd U.S. Vice President, 1889 - 1893

• William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua, 1856-57

1823 Event

• President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"

• Simon Bolivar named president of Peru

1823 Birthday

• Schuyler Colfax, R, 17th Vice President, 1869 - 1873

• President Monroe appoints 1st U.S. ambassadors to South America

1822 Birthday

• Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council, 1885-97

• Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, R, 19th President, 1877-81

• Rutherford B. Hayes, American President

• Charles S Crocker, President of Central and South Pacific Railroad

• Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio, R, 18th president, 1869-77

1821 Event

• Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun

1821 Birthday

• John Cabell Breckinridge, D, 14th U.S. Vice President, 1857 - 1861, major-general, Confederate

1820 Event

• U.S. president James Monroe re-elected

• James Monroe elected 5th U.S. president

1820 Birthday

• Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler, 1841-45

1819 Death

• Ann C Coleman, fiancee of President Buchanan, commits suicide

1819 Birthday

• Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president, Republic South Africa

• Thomas Andrews Hendricks, D, 21st U.S. Vice President

• William A. Wheeler, R, 19th Vice President, 1877-81

1816 Event

• James Monroe (VA), elected 5th president, defeating Federalist Rufus King

1812 Event

• James Madison re-elected president of U.S., E Gerry vice-pres

1812 Death

• George Clinton, 4th U.S. Vice President, dies at 73 1st Vice President to, die in office

1812 Birthday

• Henry Wilson, R, 18th Vice President, 1873-75

• Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President, Confederacy

1811 Birthday

• Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA

• Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina, 1868-74

1811 Event

• President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years

• U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.)

1810 Birthday

• John McCloskey, U.S., President of St. John's College, Fordham U

1809 Birthday

• Hannibal Hamlin, R, 15th Vice President, 1861-65

• Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia

1809 Event

• Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes

• Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, R, 16th President, 1861 - 1865

1808 Birthday

• Andrew Johnson, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Unionist, 17th President, 1865-69

1808 Event

• James Madison elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president

• Jefferson Davis, born in Kentucky, President of Confederate States of America, 1861 - 1865

1807 Birthday

• David R Atchison, President of USA on March 3rd 1849

1807 Event

• Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted)

• Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent

1806 Birthday

• Benito Pablo Juarez, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, president of Mexico, 1858-72

1804 Event

• Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president

1804 Birthday

• Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro, New Hampshire, D, 14th President, 1853 - 1857

1804 Death

• Alex Hamilton, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken

• 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president

• Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus

1802 Birthday

• Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary, 1849

1802 Event

• Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic

1801 Event

• Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C.

• House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr

1800 Event

• John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House

• White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in

1800 Birthday

• Millard Fillmore, Locke, New York, Whig, 13th president, 1850-53

1799 Death

• George Washington, 1st president United States 1789 - 1797, dies at 66

1798 Event

• U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens

1797 Birthday

• Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France

• Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic, 1871-77

1797 Event

• John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of the United States

1796 Event

• John Adams elected president

• George Washington's farewell address as president

1795 Birthday

• James Knox Polk, North Carolina, 11th President, D, 1845-1849

1794 Birthday

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, 1833-36

1793 Event

• President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building

• President Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in U.S.

1793 Birthday

• Samuel Houston, 1st president of Texas, 1836-38, 1841-44

1792 Event

• George Washington re-elected U.S. president

1792 Birthday

• Francisco Morazan, L, president of Central America, 1830-40

• George Mifflin Dallas, D, 11th Vice President, 1845-49

• Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London

• Congress passes President Succession Act

1791 Birthday

• James Buchanan, Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, 15th U.S. president, 1857-61

1791 Event

• President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session

1790 Birthday

• Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler

• Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay, 1844-62

• Jose Antonio Paez, president of Venezuela

• John Tyler, born in Virginia, 10th President, 1841-1845

1790 Event

• Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State

• President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address

1789 Event

• President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice

• George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States

• John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President (9 days before Washington)

• 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and Vice President

1786 Birthday

• William Rufus DeVane King, D, 13th Vice President, 1853

1786 Event

• Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia

1785 Birthday

• Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile, 1811-14

1784 Birthday

• Zachary Taylor, Whig, 12th President, Mar 5, 1849-July 9, 1850

1783 Birthday

• Hannah Hoes Van Buren, New York, wife of President Martin, 1837-41, died 1819

1782 Birthday

• Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, New York, D, 8th President, 1837-41

• John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina, Andrew Jackson's Vice President, 1825 - 1832

1781 Event

• John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled"

1773 Birthday

• William Henry Harrison, Virginia, Whigs, 9th President, March 4-April 4, 1841

1768 Birthday

• 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 Birthday

• John Quincy Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts, 6th President of the United States, Democrat, 1825 - 1829

• Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew, 1828-37, died 1828

• Andrew Jackson, General and 7th President, 1829-37

1758 Birthday

• James Monroe, Westmoreland, Virginia, D-R, 5th President, 1817-25

1756 Birthday

• Aaron Burr, Newark, New Jersey, D-R, 3rd U.S. Vice President, 1801-05, dueler

1751 Birthday

• James Madison, born in Port Conway, Virginia, D-R, 4th U.S. president, 1809-17

1744 Birthday

• Elbridge Gerry, DR, 5th Vice President, Massachusetts Governor, invented gerrymandering

1743 Birthday

• Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, D-R, 3rd President, 1801-09

1739 Birthday

• George Clinton, New York, D-R, 4th Vice President, 1805-12

1735 Birthday

• John Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts, 2nd president of the United States, 1797 - 1801

1732 Birthday

• George Washington, born in Virginia, 1st President, 1789 - 1797

1731 Birthday

• Samuel Huntington, Gov-Ct, Continental Congress president

1721 Birthday

• John Hanson, Maryland, 1st U.S. President under Articles of Confederation

1684 Death

• William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st President of Royal Society, dies

1673 Birthday

• Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council

1608 Event

• John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va

1577 Death

• Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies

1540 Death

• Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/president of Romagna, dies at 57

1483 Birthday

• Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney and president of Romagna