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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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' 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event Former General Muhammadu Buhari defeats incumbent Goodluck Jonathan to become the new President of Nigeria; Buhari won by over 2.5 million votes 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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' 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2015 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk replaces Herman Van Rompuy as president of the European Council 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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' 2014 Event Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been elected to her second term, winning with 51.6% of the vote over Aecio Neves 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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. 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event Pope Francis invites Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to pray with him for peace; both leaders accept the invitation 2014 Event South African President Jacob Zuma is sworn into office for his second 5-year term 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event President Obama promises that the U.S. will not take military action in Ukraine in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea 2014 Event President Obama awards 24 Medals of Honor to veterans originally overlooked due to ethnic or racial bias 2014 Event President Obama meets with Ukrainian acting Prime Minster Yatsenyuk and vows to 'stand with Ukraine' in its conflict with Russia 2014 Event 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' 2014 Event President Obama meets with the Dalai Lama for the third time despite protests from China and warnings that the meeting could threaten diplomatic relations 2014 Event Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrests more anti-government protestors and now holds 19 people suspected of attempting to undermine him 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event Hillary Clinton has rented out her 2008 campaign email list to a prominent group of supporters urging her to run for President in 2016 2014 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event In an interview with U.S. journalist Barbara Walters, Hillary Clinton claims she is 'unsure' whether she will run for President in 2016 2013 Event Chilean voters elect President Michelle Bachelet in the country's presidential election; Bachelet served as the first female Chilean president in 2006 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Former South African President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, dies at the age of 95 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Georgia swears in its new President, Giorgi Margvelashvili 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Giorgi Margvelashvili wins a landslide victory in Georgia's election, ending a decade of power by pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili 2013 Event 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 2013 Event When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaves office, U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellin to take his place 2013 Event Argentinian Vice President Amado Boudou takes over the duties of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner when she undergoes surgery to remove a subdural hematoma 2013 Event Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expels three U.S. diplomats, accusing them of 'economic conspiracy' related to a power-grid shutdown 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Rwandan President Paul Kagame achieves a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary election 2013 Event The International Olympic Committee elects Thomas Bach of Germany as their new President 2013 Event President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, ends his five year term and will be replaced by Mamnoon Hussain 2013 Event Nelson Mandela, South Africa's former President, is released after spending almost three months in a Pretoria hospital 2013 Event U.S. President Barack Obama claims he is ready to order a strike on Syria, but will seek approval from Congress 2013 Event Prior to being transferred to house arrest, former Egyptian President is released from prison and transferred to a military hospital 2013 Event A corruption investigation continues after a Cairo criminal court releases former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from Tora prison 2013 Event U.S. President Barack Obama announces a series of NSA reforms aimed at minimizing criticism over the NSA's electronic surveillance program 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event The new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is sworn in by Vice President, Joe Biden 2013 Event 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 2013 Event The Pakistani electorate vote for Mamnoon Hussain as the country's 12th President 2013 Event The entire government of South Sudan, including its Vice President, Riek Machar, is fired by the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit 2013 Event The United Kingdom is visited by Thein Sein, the President of Burma 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, announces she will resign from her position to become the President of the University of California 2013 Event A call for demonstrations is held by opponents of deposed President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt 2013 Event In a poll, only 30 percent of people in Brazil considered President Dilma Rousseff's administration 'great' or 'good' 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is receiving care for a lung infection that has worsened, leaving him in critical condition 2013 Event 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 2013 Event China's President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama discuss cyber espionnage at the end of their two day summit 2013 Event Russia's President, Vladimir Putin and his wife appear on live television to announce they have divorced after thirty years of marriage 2013 Event Former U.S. President Bill Clinton earns $500,000 for a speech given to honor Israel's President Shimon Peres 2013 Event U.S. President Barack Obama appoints James Comey as the new director of the FBI 2013 Event Rafael Correa wins an unprecedented third term as President of Ecuador 2013 Event Former President of Argentina, Jorge Rafael Videla dies in a jail in Marcos Paze, Buenos Aires 2013 Event 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 2013 Event All living former U.S. Presidents, including George W. Bush and current President Barack Obama, are present for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas 2013 Event Italy's vice-secretary of the Democratic Party , Enrico Letta, receives the mandate for form a new government from president Giorgio Napolitano 2013 Event Italy re-elects President Giorgio Napolitano 2013 Event Former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, is arrested and charged with unlawfully detaining judges in 2007 2013 Event 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 2013 Event After being hospitalized for nine days for pneumonia, former South African President Nelson Mandela, age 94, was released from the hospital 2013 Event In preparation for plans to step down in 2015, the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir gives an order to release all political prisoners 2013 Event President of China, Xi Jinping addresses leaders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, vowing to strengthen ties with Africa 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan for over 25 years, announces he will step down in 2015 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event Anti-apartheid leader and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, age 94 is hospitalized for, what sources say, was a routine checkup 2013 Event Venezuela holds a funeral for former President Hugo Chavez; following the funeral, they swear in Vice President Nicolas Maduro as Interim President 2013 Event President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas; he was 58 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event 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 2013 Event President Barack Obama is inaugurated in the Blue Room of the White House; this is his second term in office 2013 Event 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 2013 Event U.S. President announces the nomination of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, to replace Timothy Geithner, who is stepping down from his post 2013 Event Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice determines they can defer the latest inauguration of President Hugo Chavez while his cancer operation recovery continues 2013 Event 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 2013 Event The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, declares that official documents must use the words 'State of Palestine' 2013 Event Venezuela's government announces that President Hugo Chavez is suffering from 'respiratory deficiency', a condition he developed after having a severe lung infection 2013 Event 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 2012 Event The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act is signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III 2012 Event Following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Monti, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves the Parliament 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa, challenges party leadership by President Jacob Zuma at the opening of the African National Congress (ANC) 2012 Event The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, undergoes surgery for cancer in Cuba 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Philippine President Benigno Aquino, announces a state of national calamity after Typhoon Bopha claims over 450 lives 2012 Event In Egypt, one hundred thousand people gather around the Presidential palace to protest proposed constitutional changes by Mohamed Morsi, the President of Egypt 2012 Event Mexico swears in its new President, Enrique Pena Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party 2012 Event A new species of freshwater fish are discovered; the new species of darter fish, Etheostoma obama, are named after U.S. President Barack Obama 2012 Event Egyptian President Morsi plans to address the nation about the decree he enacted which greatly increases his powers 2012 Event President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi causes a call for large protests after he passed a degree giving himself sweeping new powers 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Prior to a visit from U.S. President Barack Obama, Myanmar's government pardons 452 prisoners under an amnesty as a goodwill gesture 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Under intense media scrutiny for an extramarital affair, U.S. CIA Director David Petraeus submits his resignation to President Barack Obama 2012 Event European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, confirms the design overhaul of euro banknotes, beginning with the 5 euro note 2012 Event U.S. voters hold their 2012 presidential election, with Democratic President Barack Obama projected to defeat Republican opponent, Governor Mitt Romney 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Venezuelans go to the polls to vote in the country's presidential election; President Hugo Chavez competes against Henrique Capriles Radonski of the opposing Justice First party 2012 Event 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 2012 Event U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed 2012 Event President Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination as candiate for the 2102 Presidential election 2012 Event China's President, Hu Jintao, officially receives Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who came to the country for cooperation talks and in-depth discussion 2012 Event In a move to demonstrate promised reforms are taking place, Thein Sein, President of Burma, changes nine cabinet ministers 2012 Event 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 2012 Event 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 2012 Event The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Jang Song-thank, meets Hu Jintao, the President of China 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Ghana's state funeral, held in Accra for President John Atta Mills, attracts tens of thousands 2012 Event 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 2012 Event A truth commission created by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff convenes to investigate the country's military dictatorship 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Vice-President John Dramani Mahama becomes President of Ghana after President John Atta Mills, dies 2012 Event Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government 2012 Event India elects Pranab Mukherjee as its new President 2012 Event 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 2012 Event President Hugo Chavez, of Venezuela, announces he has recovered from pelvic cancer 2012 Event Vano Merabishvili is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Georgia by the country's President, Mikheil Saakashvili 2012 Event Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo faces impeachment 2012 Event Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, reported to be in a coma, is removed from life support 2012 Event President Barack Obama states that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants 2012 Event In a third round of voting, the Parliament of Albania fails to elect the President of the Republic of Albania 2012 Event Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, announces she will switch her personal savings from the U.S. dollar to the Argentine peso 2012 Event 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 2012 Event The newly-elected President of France, Francois Hollande, makes a surprise visit to see the French troops in Afghanistan 2012 Event Fifteen months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in Egypt by a revolution, voters go to the polls for a presidential election 2012 Event 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 2012 Event France swears in Francois Hollande, the 24th President of France 2012 Event Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to his home after successfully completing radiotherapy treatments for cancer in Cuba 2012 Event Russia swears in Vladimir Putin for his third, six-year term as President 2012 Event In the second round of the French presidential election Francois Hollande is elected President of France 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Argentina's Senate passes President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's bill to nationalize 51% of oil company YPF with overwhelming majority 2012 Event 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 2012 Event Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, introduces a bill to nationalize 51% of YPF, the Argentine oil company, to Congress 2012 Event Mali swears in Dioncounda Traore, an interim president, marking the country's transition back to civilian rule following last month's coup 2012 Event Following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi 2012 Event U.S. President Barack Obama begins a three-day visit to South Korea, as tensions rise over North Korea's proposed missile tests 2012 Event Germany's Federal Assembly elects Joachim Gauck President of the Federal Republic of Germany 2012 Event After three years without an elected head of state, Nicolae Timofti is named President of Moldova 2012 Event Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns home after a three-week recovery from cancer surgery 2012 Event Russians stage protests in response to last week's election of Vladimir Putin as President for a third term 2012 Event The President of France, Niclas Sarkozy, announces a plan to cut immigration to France by 50 per cent 2012 Event President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez recovers after a tumor is removed from his pelvis 2012 Event Josefina Vazquez Mota is the first woman ever endorsed by a major Mexican party to run for President of Mexico 2012 Event French President Nicolas Sarkozy presents an economic reform package that increases taxes and proposes a new tax on financial transactions 2012 Event Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announces that Iran is willing to discuss its nuclear program with other leaders 2012 Event The 2012 State of the Union Address is delivered by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Congress 2012 Event fter three years in exile, Madagascar's President, Marc Ravalomanana announces he will return to the country 2012 Event With over 42% of the vote, the island nation of Kiribati re-elects President Anote Tong to a third and final term 2012 Event Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour 2012 Event U.S. President Barack Obama announces plans to dramatically cut defense spending 2012 Event Vice-President of Argentina Amado Boudou assumes temporary power as President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has surgery for thyroid cancer 2012 Event 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 2011 Event 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 2011 Event President Barack Obama asks Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar December 4, 2011 2011 Event In a second consecutive mandate, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is sworn in as President of Argentina 2011 Event Abdullah Gul, President of Turkey, begins a three-day visit to the United Kingdom 2011 Event Italian President Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the country's new Prime Minister 2011 Event Ireland inaugurates its ninth President, Michael D. Higgins 2011 Event President Barack Obama's Jobs Act fails to receive the sixty votes required to advance from the U.S. Senate 2011 Event 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 2011 Event China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project 2011 Event After a rare public outcry, President Thein Sein of Burma decides to halt the controversial Myitsone Dam project 2011 Event Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts a proposal from President Dmitry Medvedev to run in Russia's 2012 Presidential election 2011 Event Former French President Jacques Chirac begins stands trial in Paris for embezzlement charges 2011 Event In Kabul, a rocket is fired into the compound of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan 2011 Event The price of gold reaches a new record after Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announces plans to nationalize his country's gold industry 2011 Event 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 2011 Event 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 2011 Event President Obama signs legislation to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, narrowly averting the debt ceiling crisis 2011 Event Former Cuban President Fidel Castro makes his first appearance outside of Havana since leaving office in 2006, visiting a mausoleum in Artemisa 2011 Event Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces the country's plan to launch a manned shuttle into space by 2019 2011 Event In Guinea, up to 80 people, including soldiers, are arrested for a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Conde, which occurred July 19 2011 Event In a speech outside of Potala Palace, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping declares he will crush attempts for an Independent Tibet 2011 Event 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 2011 Event The European Central BAnk appoints Italy's Mario Draghi as its new President, set to replace Jean-Claude Trichet on November 1 2011 Event Michelle Bachmann announces she will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States 2011 Event On his visit to the United Kingdom, U.S. President Barack Obama meets Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh 2011 Event 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 2011 Event The U.S. intends to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, for alleged human rights breaches during the 2011 Syrian Uprising 2011 Event Suzanne Mubarek, wife of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, has open heart surgery after having a heart attack brought on by a corruption investigation 2011 Event In Egypt, authorities extend the detention of former President Hosni Mubarak for another 15 days 2011 Event Amid protests, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, is sworn in for a fourth term 2011 Event 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 2011 Event U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives 2011 Event By order of an Egyptian court, the name of Egypt's former President, Hosni Mubarak, is stripped from public spaces, schools and streets 2011 Event Nigeria's presidential election, held April 16, 2011, declares the winner is President Goodluck Jonathan 2011 Event 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 2011 Event In the Republic of Djibouti, located in the Horn of Africa, President Ismael Omar Guelleh wins re-election with 79% of the vote 2011 Event Kazakhstan holds a presidential election; President Nursultan Nazarbayev wins 95% of the vote 2011 Event 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 2011 Event 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 2011 Event In Egypt, a travel ban is imposed on former President Hosni Mubarak and his family 2011 Event Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh orders the country's security forces to protect protesters 2011 Event Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni continues his 30-year rule after being re-elected President of Uganda; the opposition claims the election was a 'sham' 2011 Event Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas 2011 Event Inspired by the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, nearly 5,000 of Algerians protest their regime, calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be removed 2011 Event Anti-government protesters in Yemen call for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down from his regime; Ali has ruled the country since 1978 2011 Event President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi 2011 Event Protesters continue their 12th day of nationwide protests in Cairo's Tahir Square, calling on President Hosni Mubarak to step down 2011 Event Egypt's people vow to continue demonstrating until President Mubarak's regime falls 2011 Event Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years 2011 Event President Mubarak asks his government to resign 2011 Event Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari, launched an emergency polio immunization programme targeting 32 million children under age 5 2011 Event Jordan's Ali bin Al Hussein is elected as Vice President of FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football 2011 Event 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 2010 Event Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown 2010 Event Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is granted temporary powers to pass laws by decree, negating any required review or support from the National Assembly 2010 Event Despite concern from the opposition, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declares he will pass laws by decree for the next six to eighteen months 2010 Event China creates a new 'Confucius peace prize' to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it 2010 Event After facing heavy flooding and mudslides, the President of Venezuela declares a state of emergency in the state of Falcon 2010 Event President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects Iran's successful family planning program and urges young Iranian girls to marry at age 16 2010 Event U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in India on a tour to promote U.S. exports 2010 Event Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, visits the Kuril Islands, the subject of a dispute with Japan 2010 Event Trade unions in France launch a round of strikes in response to President Sarkozy's plan to lift the pension age to 62 2010 Event President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council 2010 Event Acting as a private citizen, former President Jimmy Carter travels to North Korea to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, a U.S. citizen 2010 Event The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research 2010 Event Model Naomi Campbell confirms former President of Liberia Charles Taylor gave her diamonds she described as 'dirty looking stones' 2010 Event The 15th President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, is sworn in, as is the 15th Vice President of the Philippines, Jejomar Binay 2010 Event Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010 2010 Event 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 2010 Event Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany nominates Christian Wulff for President 2010 Event Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma and United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon discuss climate change 2010 Event President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 'alien troops' to leave and suggests that the regional nations be allowed to settle things themselves 2010 Event 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 2010 Event 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 2010 Event Tens of thousands of Poles line the streets to witness the procession of President Kaczynski, en route to the Presidential Palace, Warsaw, where he will lie in state 2010 Event Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors 2010 Event The 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots continue as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly flees the country, the government steps down and protesters control the parliament building 2010 Event Acting president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolves the Nigeria's cabinet 2010 Event Three men are detained in relation to the theft of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos' corpse, December 11, 2009 2010 Event The widow of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, Agathe Habyarimana, is arrested in France - accused of helping plan the 1994 genocide 2010 Event Ejup Ganic, former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is stopped while trying to escape war crime charges, at London Heathrow airport 2010 Event After being delayed by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th President of Ukraine 2010 Event The declaration of Victor Yanukovych as President of Ukraine is suspended by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine 2010 Event Former Phillipine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 196 others are charged with murder relating to the Maguindanao massacre, November 2009 2010 Event Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commands Iran's atomic agency to start enriching uranium at a higher level 2010 Event U.S. President Barack Obama proposes a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 which projects a record-high budget deficit of $1.6 trillion in fiscal 2010 2010 Event 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 2009 Event U.S. Senate Committee passes healthcare reform bill, hailed as a 'critical milestone' by President Obama 2009 Event President Obama promises the will 'get something done this year' on healthcare reform 2009 Event Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has 4,000 prisoners death sentences commuted to life imprisonment 2009 Event Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide 2009 Event Peace talks witht he Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger are held by the President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou 2009 Event Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces 2009 Event Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military 2009 Event An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur 2009 Event Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau 2009 Event Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War 2009 Event Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe 2009 Event 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 2008 Event Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President of the United States 2008 Event President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law 2008 Event Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan 2008 Event 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 2005 Event George W. Bush is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States 2005 Event 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 2004 Event George W. Bush wins a second term as U.S. president, winning 51% of the popular vote 2004 Event Former President Bill Clinton undergoes a quadruple bypass operation 2004 Event Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention 2004 Event 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 2003 Death Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, " 2003 Event 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 2000 Event Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns 2000 Event The Democratic party nominates Al Gore to run for president 2000 Event 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 1999 Event 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 1998 Event House of Representatives approves impeachment inquiry of President Clinton 1998 Event President Bill Clinton testifies before a grand jury investigating his conduct (first president to do so), and admits an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky 1998 Event Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton 1998 Event Federal court rules President Clinton does not have executive privilege in the Lewinsky case so he must testify 1998 Event Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton is thrown out of court 1998 Event Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze 1998 Death Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, dies 1998 Event President Bill Clinton says he would never resign, 'I would never walk away from the of this country and the trust they've placed in me', during a press conference 1998 Event First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy 1998 Event President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" 1998 Death Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies 1998 Event News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations 1998 Event 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" 1997 Death Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies 1997 Death Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies 1997 Death Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau, 1989-1992, dies 1997 Death Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies 1997 Event Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs 1997 Event Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO 1997 Death Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies 1997 Death Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12 1997 Death Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies 1997 Event President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College 1997 Event Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt 1997 Death Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies 1997 Death Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies 1997 Death Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78 1997 Event President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery 1997 Death John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58 1997 Event President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research 1997 Death Enrique Peralta Azurdia, military President of Guatemala in 1963 - 1966, dies 1997 Death Jim Kensil, NFL president for the New York Jets, dies of heart failure at 66 1997 Event Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua 1996 Death Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies 1996 Death Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies 1996 Death Alain Poher, French President of European Parliament (1966-69), dies 1996 Event Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate 1996 Death Najibullah, President of Afghanistan Democratic Party 1986 - 1990, executed 1996 Death Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds, dies at 45 in Vienna, Austria 1996 Death Spiro Theodore Agnew, U.S. Vice President (1969-73), dies at 77 1996 Death Ernesto Geisel, military president of Brazil 1974 - 1979, dies at 89 1996 Death Og Mandino, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine 1996 Death Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies 1996 Death Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82 1996 Death Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies 1996 Death Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies 1996 Event Bob Dole, Senator-R-Kansas, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president 1996 Death Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies 1996 Death Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83 1996 Death Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies 1996 Death Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (1963-66), dies 1996 Death Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (1966-70), dies 1996 Death Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72 1996 Death Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies 1996 Death Shin Kanemaru, Vice President of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81 1996 Death Edmund S Muskie, vice President candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81 1996 Death Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies 1996 Death Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61 1996 Death Or San Yu, president of Burma in (1981-88), dies 1996 Death Francois Mitterrand, President of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79 1996 Death 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 1995 Death Nancy LaMott, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, dies at 43 1995 Death Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated 1995 Death Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82 1995 Death Sicco Mansholt, President Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies 1995 Event Gunmen ambush Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed 1995 Death Juan Carlos Ongania, President of Argentina (1966-70), dies 1995 Event President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City 1995 Death Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies 1995 Death Carlos Menem, Jr., son of Argentine president, dies at 26 1995 Event President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament 1995 Event President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns 1995 Event Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece 1995 Event Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay 1995 Death Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies 1995 Death Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90 1995 Death Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104 1995 Death Souphanouvong, Red Prince, president of Laos 1975 - 1987, dies at 85 1995 Death Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies 1995 Death Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84 1995 Event 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 1994 Death Kim II Sung, President of North Korea (1945-94), dies at 82 1994 Death Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated 1994 Event Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico 1994 Event Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay 1994 Death Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies 1994 Death Joseph H Hazen, U.S. producer/Vice President (Warner Bros), dies at 96 1994 Event Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka 1994 Event Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan 1994 Event Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election 1994 Event President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti 1994 Event Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil 1994 Event South African President Nelson Mandela visits U.S. 1994 Death Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86 1994 Event Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi 1994 Death Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69 1994 Event Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% 1994 Event South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning 1994 Event Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau 1994 Event Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia 1994 Event Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees 1994 Death Kim II Sung, President of North-Korea (1948-94), buried 1994 Event Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president 1994 Death Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82 1994 Event Roman Herzog sworn in as German president 1994 Event Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia 1994 Event Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria 1994 Death Erich Honecker, president of East Germany (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81 1994 Event Roman Herzog elected president of Germany 1994 Event Joaquin Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic 1994 Event Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president 1994 Event Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama 1994 Event Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica 1994 Event President Clinton announces U.S. will no longer repatriate boat people 1994 Event President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California 1994 Death Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81 1994 Death Richard M. Nixon, American President 1994 Event Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later 1994 Event President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death 1994 Death Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash 1994 Death Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Death Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76 1994 Death Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated 1994 Death Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated 1994 Death Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican President candidate, assassinated at 44 1994 Event El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war 1994 Event President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed 1994 Event Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile 1994 Event Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia 1994 Death Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies 1994 Event Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland 1994 Event Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica 1994 Event Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland 1994 Event President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam 1994 Event Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras 1994 Death Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad son, dies in car accident at 31 1994 Death Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72 1994 Death Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies 1994 Death 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 1993 Death Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54 1993 Death Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies 1993 Event Guinee general Lansana re-elected president 1993 Death Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75 1993 Event Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 1993 Event Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast 1993 Death Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88 1993 Event Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela 1993 Event President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill 1993 Event Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum 1993 Event Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president 1993 Event Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee 1993 Death Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40 1993 Event General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president 1993 Death John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76 1993 Event Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1993 Event Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament) 1993 Event Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin 1993 Death Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to President Aristide, murdered 1993 Event Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees 1993 Event Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president 1993 Event President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions 1993 Event Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan and premier Nawaz Sharif resign 1993 Event President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville 1993 Event Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi president/Sylvie Kinigi, PM 1993 Event Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia 1993 Event Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton 1993 Event Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran 1993 Event Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia 1993 Event Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala 1993 Event Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army 1993 Event Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi 1993 Event President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees 1993 Event Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired 1993 Event Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey 1993 Event Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years 1993 Event Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) 1993 Death Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68 1993 Death Turgut zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65 1993 Death Isaac Rojas, Vice President of Argentina (1955-58), dies 1993 Event Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie 1993 Death Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63 1993 Death Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies 1993 Event Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel 1993 Death Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 1993 Death Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies 1993 Death Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78 1993 Event William J. Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president 1993 Event Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics 1992 Event President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair 1992 Event Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia 1992 Death Carl Barger, baseball President (Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins), dies at 62 1992 Death Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies 1992 Death Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91 1992 Death Alexander Dubcek, President of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies 1992 Event Bill Clinton wins U.S. presidential election over President Bush 1992 Event Tipper Gore (wife of future Vice President) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink 1992 Event Vice President Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil 1992 Event Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor 1992 Death Flora SA Benson, U.S., wife of President Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies 1992 Death Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand (1975-84)/President IMF, dies 1992 Death Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies 1992 Death Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79 1992 Death Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73 1992 Event Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria 1992 Event Sixto Duran Ballen elected president of Ecuador 1992 Event Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria 1992 Event Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines 1992 Death Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73 1992 Event Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan 1992 Event President Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch 1992 Death Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies 1992 Event Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria 1992 Death Karl Carstens, president West Germany 1979 - 1984, dies at 77 1992 Death Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies 1992 Event Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy 1992 Event President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees 1992 Death Joe Burke, president (Kansas City Royals), dies at 68, dies 1992 Event Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic 1992 Event Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns 1992 Event Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns 1992 Event Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress 1992 Event Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president 1992 Event Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania 1992 Event Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show 1992 Death Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies 1992 Death William H Schuman, U.S. composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81 1992 Event President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair 1992 Death Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to President De Klerk, dies 1992 Event Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation 1992 Death Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies 1992 Event Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament 1991 Event Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R. 1991 Event Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan 1991 Event Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan 1991 Death Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78 1991 Death Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies 1991 Event Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party 1991 Death Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies 1991 Event Reverend Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti 1991 Event President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert 1991 Event Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee 1991 Event Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname 1991 Event Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC 1991 Event President Bush declares recession is near an end 1991 Event Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep 1991 Event Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins 1991 Event Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in U.S. 1991 Event President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died 1991 Event Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR 1991 Event Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation 1991 Death Vlastimil Fisar, Czechoslovakian actor/president (International Actors Federation), dies 1991 Event Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns 1991 Event President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game 1991 Event President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat 1991 Death J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies 1991 Event Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" 1991 Event Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tome e Principal 1991 Event Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president 1991 Event President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws 1991 Event Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU 1991 Event Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala 1991 Event President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected 1991 Event Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala 1991 Event Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak 1990 Event Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president 1990 Event Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti 1990 Event President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid 1990 Event Expos President Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman 1990 Event Dr. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia 1990 Event President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 1990 Event Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland 1990 Event Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize 1990 Death Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered 1990 Death Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies 1990 Event President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait 1990 Event "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book 1990 Event South African president F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington D.C. 1990 Event West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty 1990 Death Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated 1990 Event Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces 1990 Event Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West 1990 Event President Bush calls up military reserves 1990 Event Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson 1990 Event Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories 1990 Event President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan 1990 Event Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru 1990 Event President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act 1990 Death Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies 1990 Death Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies 1990 Event South Africa President F W de Klerk lifts 4 year of state of emergency 1990 Death Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of U.S.S.R. supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies 1990 Event Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic 1990 Event Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia 1990 Event Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia 1990 Event Dominican Republic President Joaquin Ricardo Balaguer re-elected 1990 Death Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate President debate, dies at 84 1990 Event Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party 1990 Death Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated 1990 Event Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's president 1990 Event President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal 1990 Event Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president 1990 Event Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil 1990 Event Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress 1990 Event Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti 1990 Death Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer 1990 Event Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay 1990 Death Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93 1990 Death Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62 1990 Event South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th 1990 Event South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs 1990 Death Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies 1989 Event Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia 1989 Event Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe 1989 Event Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president 1989 Event President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns 1989 Event Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India 1989 Event U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican 1989 Event India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns 1989 Event Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay 1989 Event Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay 1989 Event Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras 1989 Death Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies 1989 Event Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon 1989 Death Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon 1989 Event Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush 1989 Event South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act 1989 Event Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns 1989 Event Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon 1989 Event Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey 1989 Event South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners 1989 Event Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson 1989 Death Ferdinand E Marcos, president of Philippines (1965-86), dies at 72 1989 Event FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa 1989 Event Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland 1989 Event Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa 1989 Event President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns 1989 Event Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia 1989 Event President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game 1989 Event Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina 1989 Event South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela 1989 Event Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union 1989 Event Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing 1989 Event Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs 1989 Event President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama 1989 Event Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head 1989 Event NL announces Yankees' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president 1989 Event Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres 1989 Event Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive 1989 Event President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon 1989 Event 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) 1988 Event Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka 1988 Event Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela 1988 Event Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico 1988 Event Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union 1988 Death Billy Carter, President Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51 1988 Death Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65 1988 Event NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish 1988 Event Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma 1988 Event Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president 1988 Death Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63 1988 Death Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in crash at 64 1988 Death Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash 1988 Event Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador 1988 Death Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86 1988 Event Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989 1988 Event General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma 1988 Event Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico 1988 Event Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%) 1988 Death Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89 1988 Event President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan 1988 Event Francois Mitterrand elected president of France 1988 Event Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate 1988 Death Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85 1988 Event President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp 1988 Event Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay 1988 Death James R Killian, Jr., MIT President (1948-59), dies at 83 1988 Event Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname 1988 Event Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair 1988 Event Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti 1988 Death Chiang Ching-huo, president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69 1987 Event Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe 1987 Event Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 1987 Event Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari 1987 Event Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea 1987 Event President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 1987 Event Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba 1987 Event Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies 1987 Death Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies 1987 Event Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize 1987 Event Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize 1987 Death Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70 1987 Death Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon, dies at 87 1987 Event Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women 1987 Event Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim 1987 Event Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines 1987 Death Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78 1987 Event Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils President 1987 Event President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad 1987 Event Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad and Tobago 1987 Event President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress 1987 Event President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran 1987 Event 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 1986 Event President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti 1986 Event Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal 1986 Event Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees 1986 Event U.S. president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran 1986 Event Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique 1986 Death Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53 1986 Event President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta 1986 Event President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres 1986 Death Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president of Finland, dies at 85 1986 Event Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege 1986 Event President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger 1986 Event President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty 1986 Event President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments 1986 Event President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency 1986 Event A. Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL 1986 Event Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria 1986 Event President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled 1986 Event Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia 1986 Event South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela 1986 Death Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71 1986 Event President Reagan appoints Dr. James C Fletcher NASA Administrator 1986 Event President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan 1986 Event Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees 1986 Event Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president 1986 Event Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen 1986 Event President Reagan announces formation of Commission on Challenger Accident 1986 Event Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica 1986 Event Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda 1986 Event Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 1986 Event South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents 1986 Death Abdel Fattah Ismail, president of South-Yemen (19??-80), murdered 1986 Event 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 1985 Event French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski 1985 Event President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser 1985 Event President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time 1985 Event Argentine President Alfonsins Radical Burgerunie wins elections 1985 Event President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands 1985 Event President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa 1985 Event Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru 1985 Event Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon 1985 Event Andrei Gromyko appointed president of U.S.S.R. 1985 Event Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan 1985 Event U.S. president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua 1985 Event El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election 1985 Event Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece 1985 Death Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/president of U.S.S.R. (1984-85), dies at 73 1985 Event South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence 1985 Event Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1985 Event Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years 1985 Event Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua 1985 Event Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III 1984 Event President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) 1984 Event Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R) 1984 Event President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa 1984 Death Joe Cronin, shortstop and American League President, dies at 77 1984 Event President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project 1984 Event Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush 1984 Event Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president 1984 Event During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" 1984 Event Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana 1984 Birthday Lauren Bush, born in Houston, Texas, fashion model, environmentalist, niece, President George W. Bush 1984 Event President Reagan visits China 1984 Event General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union 1984 Event U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president 1984 Event President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term 1984 Death Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead 1983 Event Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat 1983 Event Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president 1983 Event President Reagan became 1st U.S. President to address Japan's legislature 1983 Event President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L. King day 1983 Event Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 U.S. Marines in Lebanon 1983 Event Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela 1983 Event Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees 1983 Event AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows 1983 Event U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president 1983 Event Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR 1983 Event 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 1983 Event President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security 1983 Event President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue 1983 Event U.S. president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" missile defense plan (SDI) 1983 Event Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 1983 Event President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire" 1983 Death Nikolaj V Podgorny, president U.S.S.R., dies at 79 1982 Event Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery 1982 Event Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico 1982 Event Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected 1982 Event President Reagan proclaims war against drugs 1982 Event Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia 1982 Event Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia 1982 Death Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier, dies 1982 Event Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon 1982 Event Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks 1982 Death Nahum Goldmann, President Zionist World Organization, dies at 87 1982 Event Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president 1982 Death Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81 1982 Event Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico 1982 Death Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, President Dominican Rep, commits suicide 1982 Event General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina 1982 Event Supreme Court rules President can't be sued for actions in office 1982 Event John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity 1982 Event President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech 1982 Event President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat 1982 Event General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala 1982 Event President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth 1982 Event President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts 1982 Event Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador 1982 Event Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador 1982 Death Melville Bell Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society, dies at 80 1982 Death 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed 1982 Event Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees 1982 Event President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1982 Event Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta 1982 Event Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica 1982 Event Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands 1982 Event Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland 1982 Event Roberto S. Cordova installed as president of Honduras 1982 Event Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland 1982 Death Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71 1981 Event Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president 1981 Event Argentine president/general Roberto Viola flees 1981 Event President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence 1981 Event Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1981 Event 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 1981 Event Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran 1981 Event Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League 1981 Event Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees 1981 Death Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Event John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan 1981 Event President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers 1981 Event Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association 1981 Event Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran 1981 Event Iran president Bani Sadr deposed 1981 Event Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti President election 1981 Event Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers 1981 Death Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated 1981 Death Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President of Ecuador, dies in air crash 1981 Event Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France 1981 Death Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies 1981 Event Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for President of France 1981 Event President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III 1981 Death 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 1981 Event Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president 1981 Event Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege 1981 Event Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal 1980 Event Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns 1980 Event Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees 1980 Event Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral 1980 Event Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran 1980 Event Ronald Reagan (R) defeats President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide 1980 Event President nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court 1980 Death George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86 1980 Event Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein 1980 Death Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay 1980 Event Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea 1980 Event Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted 1980 Event Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president 1980 Event Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana 1980 Event Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president 1980 Event Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president 1980 Event Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republicans in Detroit 1980 Death Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies 1980 Death John W. Davis, President (WV State college), dies at 92 1980 Event Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan, Jr. National Urban League president 1980 Event Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru 1980 Event Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried 1980 Death William R Tolbert, Jr., Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup 1980 Event President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry 1980 Birthday Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton, 1993-2001 1980 Event Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy 1980 Event Bani Sadr elected president of Iran 1980 Event President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow 1980 Event President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics 1980 Event 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 1979 Event Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for president 1979 Event President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil 1979 Event Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees 1979 Death Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated 1979 Event President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education 1979 Event Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees 1979 Event Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president 1979 Event Somali constitution approved by president 1979 Event Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola 1979 Death Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed 1979 Death Agostinho Neto, poet/1st President of Angola, dies at 56 1979 Event President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga 1979 Event Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents 1979 Event President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves 1979 Event Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein 1979 Event President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty 1979 Event South African President Vorster resigns due to scandal 1979 Event West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president 1979 Death Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51 1979 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo 1979 Death Carroll D. Rosenbloom, Los Angeles Rams president, dies at 72 1979 Event President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh 1979 Event Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria 1979 Event President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years 1979 Death Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President and (4 time Governor-R-New York), dies at 70 1979 Event 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 1978 Event Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives 1978 Event President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill 1978 Event President Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship 1978 Event President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio 1978 Event Aristides Royo elected president of Panama 1978 Event Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya 1978 Event Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares 1978 Event Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees 1978 Event Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II 1978 Event Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees 1978 Event Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy 1978 Event Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974 1978 Event Vice President Walter F. Mondale begins trip to Mid-East 1978 Death Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed 1978 Death Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered 1978 Event Italy's President Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair 1978 Event Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany 1978 Death Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered 1978 Event Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel 1978 Event President Carter defers production of neutron bomb 1978 Death Hubert Humphrey, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969, dies at 66 in Waverly, Minnesota 1978 Event 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) 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt 1977 Event Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset 1977 Event Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel 1977 Event Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel 1977 Event Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel 1977 Event President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran 1977 Event Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite 1977 Event President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981 1977 Event President Carter meets with 15 record company executives 1977 Event President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties 1977 Event Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus 1977 Event President Carter establishes Department of Energy 1977 Death Makarios III, Michail Mouskos, archbishop/president (Cyprus), dies at 63 1977 Event Leonid Brezhnev named president of U.S.S.R. 1977 Event Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library 1977 Event U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns 1977 Event Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh 1977 Event Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter 1977 Death Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered 1977 Event U.S. president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland 1977 Event Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter 1977 Event President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights 1977 Event Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame 1977 Event President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000) 1977 Event President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders 1977 Event President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) 1977 Event Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium 1977 Event Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament 1976 Event President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order 1976 Event Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq 1976 Event Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president 1976 Event Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford for president 1976 Event Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ 1976 Event 1st debate of major-ticket Vice President nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R) 1976 Event President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" 1976 Event Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter 1976 Event Egypt president Sadat re-elected 1976 Death Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86 1976 Death Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 1976 Event President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention 1976 Event Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor 1976 Event Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City 1976 Death Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76 1976 Event Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of U.S. Conference of Mayors 1976 Event Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president 1976 Event Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military 1976 Event Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford 1976 Event Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves 1975 Event Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life 1975 Event Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford 1975 Event President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City 1975 Event U.S. president Gerald Ford visits China 1975 Event President Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped 1975 Event Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president 1975 Event Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S. 1975 Event President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside 1975 Event Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco California 1975 Event Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing 1975 Death Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92 1975 Event Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford 1975 Event Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman 1975 Event Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit 1975 Event Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1975 Event Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired 1975 Event President Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for president 1975 Event Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967 1975 Event Vice President Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA 1975 Event President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" 1975 Event 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 1975 Event Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years 1975 Death N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies 1975 Event Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer 1975 Death Raymond Moley, U.S. advisor to President Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88 1975 Death Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakian president (1957-68), dies at 70 1974 Event Nelson A. Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st Vice President 1974 Event Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto 1974 Event General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal 1974 Event President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters 1974 Event President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes 1974 Event South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination 1974 Death Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered 1974 Event Richard Nixon resigns presidency, Vice President Gerald Ford becomes 38th president 1974 Event President Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 1974 Event President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in 1974 Event House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up 1974 Event House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon 1974 Event Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees 1974 Death Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/president Com Palestine, dies 1974 Event General Pinochet becomes president of Chile 1974 Event Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina 1974 Death Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78 1974 Event U.S. president Nixon visits U.S.S.R. 1974 Event Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president 1974 Event Former Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred 1974 Event President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings 1974 Event President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House 1974 Death Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies 1974 Event Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed 1974 Death Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62 1974 Event Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president 1974 Event Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns 1974 Event Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up 1974 Event Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin 1973 Event AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees 1973 Event Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL president 1973 Event Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro T. Agnew 1973 Event Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as Vice President 1973 Event Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos 1973 Event President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate 1973 Event President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" 1973 Event President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline 1973 Event President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal 1973 Event Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president 1973 Death Arabi El Goni, Vice President/Chad parliament, murdered 1973 Event President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athelete of 1st century 1973 Event U.S. president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox 1973 Event Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1973 Event Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President 1973 Event Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns 1973 Event Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power 1973 Event President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout 1973 Event Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 1973 Death Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65 1973 Event Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws 1973 Event Vice President Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign 1973 Death Walter Ulbricht, President East Germany, dies at 80 1973 Death Mike Burke, President (New York Yankees)/dir (Madison Square Garden), dies 1973 Event President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation 1973 Event Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina 1973 Event Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda 1973 Event Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" 1973 Event Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records 1973 Event Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president 1973 Event President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up 1973 Event Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president 1973 Event ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election 1973 Event San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams 1973 Event Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland 1973 Event President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law 1973 Event President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War 1973 Death Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64 1973 Death Lyndon B. Johnson, American President 1973 Event New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life 1973 Event 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 1972 Death Harry S. Truman, American President 1972 Death Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 1972 Death Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81 1972 Event President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) 1972 Event Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law 1972 Event President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines 1972 Event Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley 1972 Event 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 1972 Event Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out 1972 Event Juan Peron elected president of Argentina 1972 Event President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports 1972 Event Chile president Allende forms new government 1972 Event Yugoslav president Tito visits U.S.S.R. 1972 Event U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow 1972 Death Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62 1972 Event Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President 1972 Death Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered 1972 Death Heinrich Lubke, West Germany president (1959-69), dies at 77 1972 Event "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 5 performances 1972 Event "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 5 performances 1972 Event General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia 1972 Event Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep 1972 Event President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China 1972 Event President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1972 Event President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing 1972 Event Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. president to visit China 1972 Event President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China 1972 Event President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time 1972 Event Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier 1972 Event President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle 1971 Event Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns 1971 Event President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term 1971 Event Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE 1971 Event West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev 1971 Event Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out 1971 Event President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents 1971 Event Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan 1971 Event President Nixon announces he would visit China 1971 Event Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi 1971 Birthday Andre President, tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles 1971 Event President Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus 1971 Death William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76 1971 Event President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China 1971 Event President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free 1971 Event Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines 1971 Death Thomas E Dewey, U.S. president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68 1971 Event Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president 1971 Event Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria 1971 Event General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda 1971 Event Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2 1971 Event Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate 1971 Event "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 72 performances 1970 Event President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines 1970 Event Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico 1970 Death Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60 1970 Death Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 1970 Event "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 72 performances 1970 Event President Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam 1970 Event Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile 1970 Event Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 1970 Event Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt 1970 Event Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser 1970 Event Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt 1970 Event Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar 1970 Death Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt President (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52 1970 Event President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses 1970 Event Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands 1970 Event Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador 1970 Event President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18 1970 Death Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68 1970 Event Argentine military junta under Lieutenant-general Lanusse drives out President Ongania 1970 Death H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies 1970 Death Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies 1970 Death Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, dies 1970 Event President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on January 1, 1971 1970 Event U.S. president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine" 1970 Death David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96 1970 Death Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered 1970 Event 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 1969 Death Kliment J Voroshilov, president U.S.S.R. (1953-60), dies 1969 Event Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon 1969 Event West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands 1969 Event Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias and distortion 1969 Event Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium 1969 Event Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali 1969 Death Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered 1969 Event Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam 1969 Death Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59 1969 Death Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Ta't-Tanh, North Vietnamese president, dies at 79 1969 Death George Preston Marshall, NFL president for the Washington Redskins, dies at 72 1969 Event President Nixon visits Romania 1969 Event Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France 1969 Death Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies 1969 Event Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France 1969 Event South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse 1969 Death Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84 1969 Death Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78 1969 Death Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President 1969 Event Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president 1969 Death Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55 1969 Event U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 1969 Event Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany 1969 Event President Nixon visits West-Berlin 1969 Event Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO 1969 Event Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins 1969 Death Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered 1969 Event Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as president 1969 Event U.S. Congress doubles president salary 1968 Event President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power 1968 Event President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor 1968 Event Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela 1968 Event Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees 1968 Event Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted 1968 Event Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey 1968 Event Nixon (R) beats Vice President Humphrey (D) and George C. Wallace for presidency 1968 Event President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam 1968 Event China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji 1968 Event Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru 1968 Event Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees 1968 Event Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago) 1968 Event Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague 1968 Event Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague 1968 Event Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for president 1968 Death Don Lillis, NFL president for the New York Jets 1968 Event Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms 1968 Event President De Gaulle disbands French parliament 1968 Event President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1968 Event Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president 1968 Event President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1968 Event General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia 1968 Event Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia 1968 Event Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus 1968 Event Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one 1968 Event Former Vice President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for presidency 1968 Event Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia 1967 Event Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania 1967 Event Robert McNamara elected president of World bank 1967 Death Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies 1967 Event Yemen president Sallal flees 1967 Event Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep 1967 Event Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive Vice President of A's by Charlie Finley 1967 Birthday Amy Carter, President Carter's daughter/peace activist 1967 Event French president De Gaulle visits Poland 1967 Event Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution 1967 Death Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies 1967 Death Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-87), dies at 66 1967 Death Oskar Maria Graf, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels, dies at 72 in New York 1967 Death Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-67), dies at 66 1967 Event Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel 1967 Event Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India 1967 Event Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua 1967 Event Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank 1967 Event General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo 1967 Death Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44 1967 Event Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil 1967 Event Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority 1967 Event Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1967 Event Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua 1966 Event President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger 1966 Event 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 1966 Event Malawi becomes a republic, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president 1966 Event Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic 1966 Death Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed 1966 Event Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana 1966 Event Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution 1966 Death Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90 1966 Event 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) 1966 Death Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 1965 Event Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines 1965 Event French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) 1965 Event Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow 1965 Event Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium 1965 Event Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R. 1965 Event Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown 1965 Event 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 1965 Death Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President 1965 Event Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines 1965 Event President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking 1965 Death Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90 1965 Death Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to UN/president candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies 1965 Event 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson 1965 Death Bernard M Baruch, President advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94 1965 Event Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired 1965 Event 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 1965 Event Franz Jonas elected president of Austria 1965 Event Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania 1965 Event Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 1965 Death Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74 1965 Event East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt 1965 Event Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president 1965 Death 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 1964 Event President Segni of Italy resigns 1964 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president 1964 Event 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 1964 Death J Howard Frazer, USTA president, dies in office 1964 Event Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 1964 Event Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson 1964 Death Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/president (1951-58), dies at 70 1964 Event President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act 1964 Event Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon 1964 Event Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy 1964 Event Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate 1964 Event Barry M. Goldwater nominated for president by Republicans 1964 Event President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law 1964 Death Otto V Kuusinen, President of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82 1964 Event Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted 1964 Event President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military 1964 Event Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy 1964 Event 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 1964 Birthday Jeff Bezos, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founder, President of Amazon.com, previously a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw & Co. 1964 Event President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty" 1964 Event Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1964 Event Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana 1963 Event Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends 1963 Event Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville 1963 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president 1963 Death John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46 1963 Death John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963, dies at age 46 1963 Event U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands 1963 Death Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62 1963 Event J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy 1963 Event Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria 1963 Event Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville 1963 Death Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days 1963 Birthday Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, lives only 3 days 1963 Event Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina 1963 Event General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria 1963 Event President Kennedy arrives in Rome 1963 Event Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru 1963 Event President Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland 1963 Event President Kennedy tours West-Europe 1963 Event "Mr. President" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 265 performances 1963 Event Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia 1963 Death Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer 1963 Event 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 1962 Death Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69 1962 Event "Mr President" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 265 performances 1962 Event Musical, "Mr President," written by Irving Berlin, opens on Bdwy 1962 Event French president De Gaulle visits West Germany 1962 Event Failed assassination on president De Gaulle 1962 Event Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana 1962 Event President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale 1962 Event Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy 1962 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) 1962 Event Antonio Segni elected president of Italy 1962 Event Georges Pompidou becomes president of France 1962 Event Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army 1962 Event Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees 1962 Event Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians 1962 Event South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st U.S. killed 1962 Event President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba 1962 Event French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1962 Event President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs 1962 Event Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails 1962 Death 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 1961 Event President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) 1961 Event 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 1961 Birthday Barack Obama, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, politician, Democratic party, 44th President of the United States, former U.S. Senator from Illinois 2005 - 2008 1961 Death ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69 1961 Birthday Paul Begala, born in New Jersey, political commentator, consultant, former advisor to President Bill Clinton, co-host on 'Crossfire' television show on CNN 1961 Event 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Washington D.C. residents to vote for president 1961 Event George Weiss becomes President of New York Mets 1961 Event Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party 1961 Event Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall 1961 Event President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp 1961 Event 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell 1960 Event Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast 1960 Event Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails 1960 Event John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th U.S. president 1960 Event Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil 1960 Death Wilhelm Pieck, president of East Germany (1949-60), dies at 84 1960 Event President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo 1960 Event Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago 1960 Event Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R. 1960 Event President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 1960 Event South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns 1960 Event Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem 1960 Event President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament 1960 Event Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan 1960 Event Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle 1960 Event French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu 1960 Event Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president 1959 Event Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus 1959 Event Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus 1959 Event President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs. Australia Test Cricket at Karachi 1959 Event Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair 1959 Event President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination 1959 Event U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris 1959 Event Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League 1959 Event Vice President Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" 1959 Event Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R. 1959 Event Heinrich Lubke elected President of West-Germany 1959 Event Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St. Lawrence Seaway 1959 Event Eamon de Valera elected President of Ireland 1959 Event President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua 1959 Event President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament 1959 Event Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR 1959 Death Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies 1959 Event French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary 1959 Event President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill 1959 Event 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 1958 Event 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere") 1958 Event Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela 1958 Event General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan 1958 Event President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958 1958 Event President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months 1958 Event President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood 1958 Event Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico 1958 Event President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion 1958 Birthday Ronald Prescot Reagan, Jr., Louisiana, President son/TV host, Ron Reagon Show 1958 Event Rioters attack U.S. Vice President Nixon in Venezuela 1958 Event President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock 1958 Event Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru 1958 Event Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia 1958 Event Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina 1958 Event Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America 1958 Event Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina 1958 Event Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president with 99.9 percent of the vote 1958 Event General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala 1958 Event Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic 1958 Birthday 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 1957 Event President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech 1957 Event Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia 1957 Birthday Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, Vice President, Microsoft Desktop 1957 Death Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 72 1957 Event Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey 1957 Birthday Paul Kagame, born in Ruhango, Rwanda, politician, President of the Republic of Rwanda, formerly led the Rwandan Patriotic Front ending the Rwandan genocide 1957 Event President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant 1957 Event President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction 1957 Death Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered 1957 Birthday Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother 1957 Birthday Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix 1957 Event 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower 1957 Event Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria 1957 Event Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash 1957 Event NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president 1957 Event Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves 1957 Death Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57), dies at 84 1956 Event Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns 1956 Event President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 1956 Death Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83 1956 Death Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67 1956 Event AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners 1956 Death ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day 1956 Event President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco 1956 Event Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt 1956 Event Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow 1956 Birthday Steve Ford, actor, Young and Restless, son of President Gerald Ford 1956 Death Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President 1956 Event Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY 1956 Event President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term 1956 Death Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65 1956 Event Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland 1956 Event New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build 1956 Event Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil 1956 Event Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine 1955 Event AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president 1955 Event Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president 1955 Event Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president 1955 Event Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil 1955 Event President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver 1955 Event 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 1955 Event Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria 1955 Event President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour 1955 Event 1st Vice President to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon 1955 Event Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Peron 1955 Event 1st President to appear on color TV, Eisenhower 1955 Birthday John Hinckley, Jr., shot and wounded President Reagan, 1981 1955 Event G. Gronchi elected president of Italy 1955 Event President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war 1955 Event President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam 1955 Event 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 1954 Event General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 Event President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem 1954 Birthday 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 1954 Birthday 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 1954 Event President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily 1954 Event Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay 1954 Birthday Hugo Chavez, born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, politician, United Socialist Party, Fifth Republic Movement, President of Venezuela 1954 Event Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany 1954 Event President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system 1954 Event Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala 1954 Event Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam 1954 Event President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge 1954 Event Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China 1954 Event President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China 1954 Event Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die 1954 Event Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli 1954 Event President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952 1954 Event Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism 1953 Event Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president 1953 Event Rene Coty elected President of France 1953 Event 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters) 1953 Event U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi 1953 Event President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee 1953 Birthday Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti, 1991, 1994- 1953 Event Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council 1953 Event Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president 1953 Birthday John Edwards, born in Seneca, South Carolina, politician, 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Presidential candidate, 2008, U.S. Senator from North Carolina 1953 Event Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government 1953 Event President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill 1953 Event Antonin Zapotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia 1953 Death Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 1953 Event President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple 1953 Birthday Jeb Bush, politician, born in Midland, Texas, 43rd Governor of Florida, younger brother of former President George W. Bush 1953 Birthday Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center 1953 Birthday James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU 1953 Event Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito) 1953 Event Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia 1953 Event J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club 1953 Event President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb 1952 Event Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president 1952 Event Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Event Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel 1952 Event Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel 1952 Event Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela 1952 Death Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77 1952 Event Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D) 1952 Event 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 1952 Event Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico 1952 Event General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile 1952 Event Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea 1952 Event President Truman settles 53-day steel strike 1952 Birthday David Pack, born in Los Angeles, California, musician, producer, Grammy-Award winning record producer for Wynnona, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Music Director for President Bill Clinton's Inaugurations, 1992 and 1996, cofounder, lead vocalist for band, Ambrosia 1952 Event Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president 1952 Birthday Gary Bettman, born in Queens, New York City, commissioner, National Hockey League, formerly, general counsel and president, National Basketball Association 1952 Birthday Gordon Smith, born in Pendleton, Oregon, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Oregon 1997 - 2009, President of the Oregon State Senate 1995 - 1997 1952 Event President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike 1952 Death 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 1951 Event Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League 1951 Event NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball 1951 Event 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman 1951 Event President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference 1951 Birthday Nicu Ceausescu, born in Romania, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds 1951 Birthday Queen Noor of Jordan, born in Washington, D.C., Lisa Najeeb Halaby, president of United World Colleges movement, fourth wife and widow to King Hussein of Jordan 1951 Event General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal 1951 Event President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany 1951 Birthday 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 1951 Event President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1951 Event 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms 1951 Birthday 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' 1950 Birthday Ieremia Tabai, President of Kiribati, Gilbert Islands, 1979-91 1950 Event U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb 1950 Event South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions 1950 Event U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat 1950 Event Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala 1950 Event Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as Vice President/General Manager of Pittsburgh Pirates 1950 Event Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis 1950 Event Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House 1950 Death Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead 1950 Event Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president 1950 Event Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia 1950 Event President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike 1950 Event President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia 1950 Event President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai 1950 Event President Truman promises aid to Taiwan 1950 Event President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence 1950 Event Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey 1950 Birthday Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia 1950 Event President Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government 1950 Birthday Itumeleng J Mosala, South Africa president, Azanian People's Org 1950 Birthday Michael Ford, son of President Gerald and Betty Ford 1950 Event General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1950 Death Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80 1950 Event Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland 1950 Event President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb 1949 Event Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier 1949 Event Georges Bidault elected president of France 1949 Event President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents 1949 Event Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of East Germany 1949 Event President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) 1949 Event 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 1949 Birthday Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan, 1989-93 1949 Birthday Marilyn Quayle, wife of vice president Dan Quayle, 1989-93 1949 Birthday Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru, 1985-90 1949 Birthday Mary Maples Dunn, college president, Smith College 1949 Event Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president 1949 Event Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel 1949 Event President Truman announces his point 4 program 1949 Event 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 1948 Event President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York 1948 Event President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces 1948 Event Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President 1948 Event Syngman Rhee elected president of South-Korea 1948 Event President Truman nominated for another term 1948 Event Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia 1948 Event Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns 1948 Event Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel 1948 Event Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy 1948 Event Walter P Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit 1948 Event Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1948 Death Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home 1948 Birthday Al Gore, born in Washington D.C., Senator-D-Tennessee, 1985 - 1992, 45th Vice President 1993 - 2000 1948 Event President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1948 Event U.S. president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan 1947 Birthday Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador, 1989-94 1947 Birthday Bechir Gemayel, President Lebanon, 8/23-9/14, 1982 1947 Birthday 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 1947 Event President Truman signs Presidential Succession Act 1947 Birthday Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson 1947 Event President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act 1947 Death Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62 1947 Death Emil Hacha, lawyer/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 74 1947 Birthday David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight, married Julie Nixon 1947 Birthday Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, president, Colombia, 1990-94 1947 Birthday Daphne Todd, president, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1947 Event President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty 1947 Event President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States 1947 Event President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism 1947 Event Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland 1947 Event Vincent Aurial elected president of France 1946 Event President Truman officially proclaims end of WW II 1946 Birthday Michael Ovitz, president, Walt Disney Co 1946 Event President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 1946 Event Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub 1946 Event President Truman ends wage/price freeze 1946 Event Charles S. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University 1946 Event Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China 1946 Event President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine 1946 Birthday William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, 42nd U.S. President, D, 1993-01 1946 Birthday William J. Clinton, American President 1946 Event President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 1946 Event President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces 1946 Birthday George W. Bush, two-term American president 2000-2008 1946 Event Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy 1946 Death Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60 1946 Event President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike 1946 Birthday Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president, Mexico, 1988 - 1994 1946 Event Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of U.S.S.R. 1946 Event Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam 1946 Event Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1946 Event Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president 1946 Event U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency 1946 Birthday Tod Brannan, Vice President, Logos Network Corp 1945 Birthday Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua, 1984-90 1945 Birthday Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women 1945 Event President Truman ends Lend-Lease program 1945 Event President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter 1945 Birthday Jewell Jackson McCabe, President, national coaltion of 100 black women 1945 Event President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom 1945 Birthday Alan Dukes, Irish president, Fine Gael 1945 Event Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd president 1945 Death Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63 1945 Death Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President 1945 Death Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42 1945 Event President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court 1945 Birthday Andrew Stein, President of New York City council, D 1945 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president 1945 Birthday Frank J Biondi, Jr., president, HBO 1945 Event 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 1944 Birthday Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China 1944 Birthday Mary Robinson, President of Republic of Ireland, Labour, 1990- 1944 Birthday 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 1943 Event 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu 1943 Event Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/president Jose Laurel) 1943 Event Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China 1943 Event Chiang Kai-shek became president of China 1943 Event Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president 1943 Event President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S. 1943 Birthday Yoran Ben Ami, born in Israel, producer/president, Triumph Pictures 1943 Birthday Faye Wattleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sociologist/president, Planned Parenthood 1943 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime 1943 Event 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) 1943 Death Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies 1943 Event 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco 1943 Death Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 1942 Birthday Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, president of Guatemala, 1986-91 1942 Birthday Joe McGinniss, Rye, New York, author, Selling of President 1968 1942 Birthday 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 1942 Event Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers 1942 Birthday John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to President, Botha/De Klerk 1942 Death Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau 1942 Event President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. 1942 Birthday Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatoriaal Guinee, 1979- 1942 Death Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73 1942 Birthday Kim Il Jong, son of North Korean President Kim Il Sung, 1972-94 1942 Birthday Kim Chong-Il, Yura, president of North-Korea, 1994- 1942 Death 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 1941 Birthday Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica, 1986-, Nobel 1987 1941 Birthday Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria, 1985- 1941 Event President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 1941 Event U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act 1941 Birthday Malcolm Longair, born in Dundee Scotland, astronomer, physicist, chairman of the Gemini Board, President, Royal Astronomical Society 1941 Birthday 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 1940 Event President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R) 1940 Death 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 1939 Birthday Joaquim Chissano, president of Mozambique, 1986- 1939 Birthday Leon Britain, vice president, Commission of European Communities 1939 Event Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 1939 Birthday Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president, Childrens Defense Fund 1939 Event Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president 1939 Death Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59 1939 Birthday Hugh Dykes, born in England, served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East, member of the European Parliament, Vice President of the British-German Association 1939 Event Albert Lebrun elected president of France 1939 Birthday Alan Rothenberg, U.S. Soccer President, 1990- 1939 Birthday Eleanor Smeal, feminist/president, NOW 1939 Event 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 1938 Birthday Leonid Kuchma, born in Chaikyne, Ukraine, statesman, politician, President of independent Ukraine 1994 - 2005 1938 Birthday Alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru, 1990- 1938 Event Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire 1938 Birthday Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/president, Beaumont College 1938 Birthday A Bartlett Giamatti, born in Boston, President of Yale and baseball commissioner, 1989 1938 Birthday A. J. Bellingham, president, Royal College of Pathologists 1938 Event President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies 1938 Birthday Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University 1938 Birthday Kathleen Richardson, president, Methodist Conference 1938 Event Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank 1937 Death Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 1937 Death 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 1937 Death Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies 1937 Birthday Jacques Santer, President, European Commission 1937 Birthday Saddam Hussein, At-Takriti, president of Iraq, 1979 - 2003 1937 Birthday Billy Carter, Plains Georgia, brother of President Carter 1937 Birthday Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda, 1973-94 1937 Birthday David Ward, president, Law Society 1937 Birthday 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 1936 Event President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon 1936 Birthday Johnnetta B. Cole, educator and president Spellman College 1936 Birthday Vaclav Havel, writer/president Czechoslovakia, 1989-92 1936 Birthday Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president, Law Society 1936 Birthday Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia, 1987- 1936 Event Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College 1936 Event Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power 1936 Birthday R. Ronald Venetian, president Suriname, 1991- 1936 Birthday Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party 1936 Event Manuel Azana elected president of Spain 1936 Birthday Michael Livesay, British admiral and president, RN College Greenwich 1936 Birthday Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru, writer, Aunt Julia, and President candidate 1936 Birthday Philip Ely, president, British Law Society 1936 Birthday Ron Carey, union President, Teamsters 1936 Death John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 1936 Event A flag is authorized for Vice President 1936 Event Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president 1936 Event Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants 1936 Event L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America 1936 Birthday Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, president of Uruguay, 1985-90, 95- 1936 Death 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 1935 Birthday France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles, 1977- 1935 Event Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines 1935 Birthday Abdou Diouf, president of Senegal, 1981- 1935 Event Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador 1935 Birthday Trevor Chinn, born in England, businessman, CEO, Lex Garages, entrepreneur, philanthropist, President, the Joint Israel Appeal 1935 Birthday Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance, PvdA, President, Nethche Bank 1935 Birthday Zhelyu Zhelev, president of Bulgaria, 1990- 1935 Birthday Gillian Beer, professor/president, Clare Hall-Cambridge 1935 Event 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 1934 Event Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president 1934 Birthday Umberto Agnelli, Vice President, Fiat 1934 Death Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 1934 Birthday Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union 1934 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal 1934 Event 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia 1934 Event General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico 1934 Birthday Leslie Turnberg, president, Royal College of Physicians 1934 Event Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia 1934 Birthday John A. Ziegler, Jr., Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 4th NHL President, 1977-92 1934 Birthday Bill White, U.S., 1st baseman, Cards, announcer, Yankees, President, NL 1934 Birthday 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 1933 Birthday Samora Machel, president Mocambique, 1975-86 1933 Event Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista 1933 Birthday Ann Richards, born in Lakeview, Texas, American politician, Democrat, Governor of Texas, second female governor of Texas, defeated for re-election by future U.S. President George W. Bush 1933 Event Spanish president Zamora takes power 1933 Death Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza 1933 Event Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany 1933 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." 1933 Event German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion 1933 Birthday Paul Biya, president of Cameroon since 1982 1933 Event 20th Amendment goes into effect: President term begins in Jan not March 1933 Event President von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament 1933 Event German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press 1933 Event German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor 1933 Birthday Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines, 1986-92 1933 Death 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 1932 Birthday Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti, 1986-88 1932 Death Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded 1932 Event President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment 1932 Event Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death 1932 Event President Hoover cuts own salary 15% 1932 Event New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago 1932 Event President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention 1932 Event Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile 1932 Event Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France 1932 Death Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov 1932 Event President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week 1932 Birthday Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts 1932 Birthday F. W. de Klerk, president South Africa, 1989-94 1932 Event Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland 1932 Birthday Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party, CDA 1931 Event Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China 1931 Event Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain 1931 Event Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile 1931 Event Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out 1931 Birthday Lawrence K. Grossman, News president, NBC-TV 1931 Birthday George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus, 1988-93 1931 Event Paul Doumer elected president of France 1931 Event Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president 1931 Event Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland 1931 Birthday Isabel Peron, Maria Martinez, dancer/president Argentina 1931 Birthday 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- 1930 Birthday Hafez al Assad, president, Syria 1930 Birthday Carl Barger, Lewistown Pennsylvania, baseball President, Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins 1930 Birthday Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina, 1989- 1930 Birthday Vigdis Finnbogadottir, president of Iceland, 1980- 1930 Birthday Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College, Oxford 1930 Birthday David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland 1930 Birthday Derek Bok, college president, Harvard 1930 Birthday 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 1930 Birthday Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists 1930 Birthday 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 1929 Event Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico 1929 Birthday Severn Darden, actor, Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th 1929 Birthday Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua, 1990- 1929 Event President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war 1929 Event President Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I 1929 Birthday Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy, 1985- 1929 Event President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam 1929 Birthday Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology 1929 Birthday Harvey Lichtenstein, President, Brooklyn Academy of Music 1929 Birthday Hugh Desmond Hoyte, president, Guyana, 1985-92 1929 Event Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President 1929 Event Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president 1929 Event President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park 1929 Birthday Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama 1929 Event 27 year old William S. Paley becomes CBS president 1928 Event John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea 1928 Event NL President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers 1928 Event MW Miklas elected president of Austria 1928 Event Herbert Hoover (R) elected president 1928 Event Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E. Smith (D) for president 1928 Event Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua 1928 Event President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism" 1928 Birthday Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA, Angola 1928 Event Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China 1928 Death Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated 1928 Birthday Evan G. Galbraith, born in Ohio, United States Ambassador to France under President Ronald Regan, investment banker 1928 Event Alfred E. Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention 1928 Birthday Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president, 1981- 1928 Birthday Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/president, l'ASIFA 1928 Birthday Robert Mugabe, president, Zimbabwe, 1988- 1928 Birthday Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College-Oxford 1928 Birthday Alan J. Pakula, director, All the President's Men, Klute 1928 Death Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82 1928 Birthday Fidel V Ramos, President, Phillipines 1928 Birthday Walter Fritz Mondale, born in Ceylon, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1964 - 1976, 42nd Vice President, 1977 - 1981 1928 Birthday 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 1927 Birthday Houari Boumedienne, president of Algeria, 1965-78 1927 Birthday John Warr, England, cricket bowler, avg 281, president, MCC 1927 Birthday Simone Veil, President European parliament, France 1927 Death Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State Vice President, assassinated 1927 Birthday Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/president candidate, Smothers Bros Show 1927 Event Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president 1927 Event Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president 1927 Birthday Raul Alfonsin, president, Argentina 1927 Birthday Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department 1927 Event President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC) 1927 Event President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference 1927 Event NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants 1927 Birthday 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 1926 Event Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos 1926 Birthday Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/president, Laura Ashley 1926 Birthday Don Carter, bowling great, 1st PBA president 1926 Birthday Ralph D Abernathy, U.S., president, SCLC 1926 Death Symon Petljoera, President Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris 1926 Event Mordecai W. Johnson becomes president of Howard University 1926 Event Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland 1926 Event Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup 1926 Birthday Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union 1926 Birthday Robin Cooke, President, New Zealand Court of Appeal 1926 Event Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president 1926 Birthday Raul Alfonsin, Argentine President, 1983-89 1926 Birthday Valery Giscard d'Estaing, President of France, 1974-81 1925 Birthday Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua, 1967..79 1925 Birthday Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador 1925 Birthday Charles Haughey, Irish president, 1979-81, 82, 87-92 1925 Death Ed McKeever, President (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia 1925 Birthday Idi Amin, born in Uganda, military dictator, president of Uganda, assumed role of Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, attempted to annex Kagera, Tanzania 1925 Birthday Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania, 1985- 1925 Death Charles Ebbets, Dodgers President, dies 1925 Death Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58 1925 Event President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations 1925 Birthday Al Rosen, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 3rd baseman, AL MVP 1953, N.Y. Yankee president 1925 Death Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies 1925 Birthday Hal Holbrook, born in Cleveland, actor, All the President's Men, Mark Twain 1925 Event Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola 1925 Birthday Fred Catherwood, born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, politician, writer, Conservative member of the European Parliament, president of Evangelical Alliance 1925 Event Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu 1925 Event 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 1924 Event Calles becomes president of Mexico 1924 Event U.S. president Calvin Coolidge re-elected 1924 Birthday Shirley Chisholm, D-Rep-NY, 1st black congresswoman/president candidate 1924 Event President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument 1924 Birthday Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia, D, 39th President, 1977-1981 1924 Event General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico 1924 Birthday Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia 1924 Birthday Phyllis Schlafly, St. Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president 1924 Birthday Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka, 1989-93 1924 Birthday Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party 1924 Birthday George H. W. Bush, Massachusetts, 43rd Vice President 1981 - 1989, 41st President 1989 - 1993 1924 Event Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC 1924 Event President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration 1924 Birthday Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president, Gambia, 1970-94 1924 Event Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece 1924 Birthday Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president, Zambia, 1964-91 1924 Death Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-21), dies 1924 Birthday Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe 1924 Birthday Margaret Truman, born in Missouri, singer, writer, only daughter of President Harry and Bess Truman 1924 Event Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) 1924 Death Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67 1924 Birthday Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/president, California State University at Fullerton 1923 Birthday Lucas M Mangope, 1st president of Bophuthatswana, 1977-94 1923 Birthday Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine 1923 Birthday 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 1923 Event Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding 1923 Event V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president 1923 Death Warren Harding, 29th President (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel San Francisco at 57 1923 Event Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) 1923 Birthday Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90 1923 Death J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated 1923 Birthday Gerald Gotting, East Germany president, CDU 1923 Birthday Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Organization, 1955-79 1923 Birthday Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president, 1965-75 1923 Event President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes 1923 Birthday Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president, Wolfson at Oxford 1923 Event Christy Mathewson becomes President of Boston Braves 1923 Birthday Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton, Illinois, banker, President of World Bank 1923 Birthday 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 1922 Event Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president 1922 Birthday Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua, 1956-63 1922 Birthday Norodom Sihanouk, king/president/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA 1922 Birthday Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela, 1974-79/89-94 1922 Event German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 1922 Event President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 1922 Event President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem 1922 Death Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies 1922 Birthday George McGovern, born in Avon, South Dakota, Representative-D-South Dakota 1957 - 1961, Senator-D-South Dakota 1963 - 1981, Democratic President candidate 1972 1922 Event President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore 1922 Event German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich 1922 Birthday William Manchester, born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, historian, Death of a President 1922 Birthday Arnold Burgen, college president, Academia Europaea 1922 Birthday Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO 1922 Birthday Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico 1922 Birthday 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 1921 Event President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary) 1921 Birthday Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia, 1986-90 1921 Birthday Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system 1921 Birthday Patrick Howard-Dobson, president, Royal British Legion 1921 Birthday Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana, Bechuanaland 1921 Birthday Suharto, general/president Indonesia, 1967- 1921 Event President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show 1921 Birthday Paul Daels, president, Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee 1921 Birthday 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 1920 Event Warren G. Harding elected president 1920 Event Warren Harding elected 29th president 1920 Birthday J K Gill, president, Saatchi and Saatchi 1920 Event Alexander Millerand elected president of France 1920 Event Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president 1920 Event A's Vice President Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier 1920 Birthday Ratu Kasmisere Mara, Prime Minister of Fiji, 1960 - 1970, 1970-, President, 1994 - 1920 Event U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1920 Birthday Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president, Germany, 1984-94 1920 Event Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia 1920 Death Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60 1920 Event 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 1919 Event President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden 1919 Event President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed 1919 Event U.S. President Wilson hit by a heart attack 1919 Event President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke 1919 Birthday George C Wallace, Clio Ala, gov-D-Ala, President candidate 1919 Event President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate 1919 Event President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference 1919 Birthday Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president 1919 Event William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president 1919 Birthday Kingman Brewster, college president, Yale 1919 Birthday Charles Palmer, cricketer, one Test 1955, later MCC president 1919 Event Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann 1919 Event Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany 1919 Event 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 1918 Birthday 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) 1918 Event John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League 1918 Event President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office 1918 Birthday Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile, 1990-94 1918 Event Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland 1918 Event Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president 1918 Birthday Spiro Theodore Agnew, R, 39th Vice President, 1968-75, crook 1918 Birthday Chaim Herzog, president, Israel, 1983-93 1918 Birthday Chaim Herzog, Israeli president 1918 Birthday Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/president Netherlands Bank 1918 Birthday Nelson Mandela, born in Qunu, South Africa, political prisoner, ANC, President, 1994- 1918 Birthday Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party 1918 Birthday N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad 1918 Birthday Roger de Grey, president, Royal Academy 1918 Event President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal 1918 Birthday Maurice Laing, life president, John Laing 1918 Birthday Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president, 1967-90 1918 Birthday Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, 1954-1971 1918 Event President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I 1917 Birthday Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad and Tobago, 1976-87 1917 Birthday Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated 1917 Birthday Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines President, 1965-86 1917 Birthday Charles Kerruish, president, Tyndwald Isle of Man 1917 Event Secret Service extends protection of president to his family 1917 Birthday John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963 1917 Birthday Theodore Hesburgh, Syracuse, New York, president, Notre Dame 1917 Event President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1917 Birthday 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 1916 Death Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 1916 Event Official flag of president of U.S. adopted 1916 Birthday Norman Griggs, Vice President, Building Society Association 1916 Birthday Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president, Israel 1916 Event U.S. president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act 1916 Birthday Eugene J. McCarthy, born in Watkins, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota, President candidate 1968 1916 Birthday Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers 1916 Birthday A. P. W. Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa 1915 Event President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt 1915 Event President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt 1915 Birthday Augusto Pinochet, general/president, Chile 1915 Event Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st President to attend a World Series game 1915 Birthday Alexander Durie, vice president, British AA 1915 Death General Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies 1915 Birthday Modibo Keita, president of Mali, 1960-68 1915 Birthday Theodore H White, historian and writer, Making of President 1915 Birthday Rudolf Kirchschlager, president of Austria, 1974-86 1915 Event 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" 1914 Event Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe 1914 Birthday Willi Stoph, president East Germany 1914 Event President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day 1914 Event China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification 1914 Birthday Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela 1914 Birthday Nello Celio, Swiss president 1914 Event General Zamon becomes president of Haiti 1913 Event President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law 1913 Event John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League 1913 Event President Wilson says U.S. will never attack another country 1913 Event Huerta elected president of Mexico 1913 Event Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China 1913 Birthday Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala, 1951-54, ; overthrown by CIA 1913 Birthday Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, President South Afr Pan-African Congress, 1986- 1913 Birthday Makarios III, Michail Moeskos, archbishop/president Cyprus 1913 Birthday Gerald R. Ford, 41st Vice President, 1973-74, 38th President, R-1974-77 1913 Birthday Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India 1913 Birthday Sanjiva Reddy, president, India 1913 Birthday William R. Tolbert, president Liberia, 1971-80 1913 Event Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China 1913 Event President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1 1913 Event Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president 1913 Death Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39 1913 Death Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup 1913 Event President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico 1913 Event Raymond Poincare installed as president of France 1913 Event Raymond Poincare elected president of France 1913 Birthday Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia, 1975 - 1989 1913 Birthday 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) 1912 Birthday Erich Honecker, Germany, President, East Germany 1912 Birthday Lord Kissin, president, GPG 1912 Event Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for president 1912 Birthday Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier 1912 Birthday David Brower, environmentalist/president, Sierra Club 1912 Birthday Richard D'Aeth, president, Hughes Hall Cambridge 1912 Event AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball 1912 Birthday 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 1911 Event Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico 1911 Birthday Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president 1911 Event Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal 1911 Event General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti 1911 Birthday J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president, Church and Peace 1911 Birthday Georges Pompidou, banker/premier/president France 1911 Birthday Hubert Humphrey, born in Wallace, South Dakota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969 1911 Event Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz 1911 Event New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft 1911 Birthday Melvin M Payne, president, National Geographic Society 1911 Event President/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends 1911 Birthday Edgar Beck, president, John Mowlem 1911 Birthday Robert Joseph Kane, born in Ithaca, New York, President of U.S. Olympic Commission, 1976 1911 Death Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies 1911 Birthday Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico 1911 Birthday Sylvstre A. Guzman Fernandez, president, Dominican Republic 1911 Event U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras 1911 Birthday Ronald Reagan, born in Illinois, 40th President, Republican, 1981 - 1989 1911 Birthday A G Ogston, president, Trinity College-Oxford 1911 Birthday Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile, 1964-70 1911 Event 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 1910 Birthday Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist, Men Around the President 1910 Birthday Diosdado Macapagal, Philippines president, 1961-65 1910 Birthday Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women 1910 Birthday Gordon B. Hinckley, born in Utah, religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1910 Birthday Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council 1910 Birthday Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico 1910 Event Taft is 1st President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game 1910 Event President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day 1910 Birthday Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal 1910 Birthday 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 1909 Event Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League 1909 Event U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya 1909 Birthday Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66 1909 Birthday Julio A Abraham, president, Democratic Party Bonaire 1909 Event John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League 1909 Birthday Souphanouvong, Red Prince, president of Laos, 1975-87 1909 Birthday Andrei Gromyko, U.S.S.R., diplomat/U.S.S.R. President, 1985-89, 7/18 NS] 1909 Birthday Juan Bosch, poet/president of Dominican Republic, 1962-63 1909 Death Israel Durham, Phillies president dies 1909 Birthday Cecil Marley, cricketer, Jamaican batsman 1928 - 1946, WICBC president 1909 Birthday Obafemi Awolowo, born in Nigeria, President of Nigeria, 1979-83 1909 Event 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 1908 Birthday Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall, Texas, D, 36th President, 1963-1969 1908 Birthday Lyndon B. Johnson, American President 1908 Birthday Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president, 1970-73 1908 Birthday Nelson Rockefeller, American Vice President 1908 Death Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, 1885 - 1889, 1893 - 1897, dies at 71 1908 Birthday Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia 1908 Birthday Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972 1908 Birthday Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela, 1945-48, 1958-64 1907 Birthday Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68 1907 Birthday Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic 1907 Birthday Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO 1907 Birthday Paul O'Dwyer, President of City Council, D-NYC 1907 Birthday Paul Mellon, U.S., oil magnate/president, Washington National Gallery of Art 1907 Death Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered 1907 Birthday Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan 1907 Birthday 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 1906 Event President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1906 Event Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country (Panama) 1906 Event 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 1906 Birthday Joe Cronin, baseball, Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL President 1906 Birthday Leopold Sedor Senghor, poet/president of Senegal, 1960-80 1906 Birthday Junius Richard Jayawardene, president, Sri Lanka, 1978-89 1906 Event Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention 1906 Event John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College 1906 Event Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel 1906 Birthday Eric Mensforth, president, Westland Aircraft 1906 Birthday Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi, 1964-94 1906 Birthday Eric William Fenby, composer/president, Delius Society 1906 Event President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in U.S. press 1906 Event President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake" 1906 Birthday 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 1905 Birthday Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory coast, 1960-93 1905 Birthday Clarence Campbell, born in Saskatchewan, 3rd NHL President, 1946-77 1904 Birthday Antonin Novotny, Czechoslovakia, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68 1904 Birthday W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president 1904 Event President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) 1904 Birthday James R Killian, Jr., MIT President, 1948-59 1904 Death S J Paul Kruger, general/president South Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78 1904 Birthday Mary Calderone, physician and president and co-founder of the SIECUS 1904 Birthday Ernesto de la Guardia, Jr., President of Panama, 1956-60 1904 Birthday 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 1903 Birthday Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina 1903 Event President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco 1903 Birthday Benjamin M. Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party 1903 Event Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge 1903 Birthday Nikolaj V Podgorny, President U.S.S.R., 1965-77 1903 Death George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83 1903 Birthday Ramon Ernesto Cruz Ucles, Honduras president, 1971-72, ; overthrown 1903 Event 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 1902 Birthday Arturo da Costa e Silva, marshal/president of Brazil, 1967-69 1902 Birthday Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president, 1946-52 1902 Birthday Juscelino Kubitschek, president Brazil, 1955-60 1902 Birthday Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president, 20th Century Fox 1902 Event President Teddy Roosevelt became 1st U.S. chief executive to ride in a car 1902 Birthday Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president, J Sansbury Pics 1902 Birthday 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 1902 Birthday Jean Rey, Belgium, President of European Commission, 1967-70 1902 Birthday 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 1901 Birthday Arleigh Burke, born in Boulder, Colorado, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War 1901 Birthday 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 1901 Death President William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted 1901 Event President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1901 Event Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" 1901 Birthday Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, 1940-41, 49-51, 68 1901 Death Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st President Rep South Africa, dies at 81 1901 Event President McKinley visits San Francisco 1901 Death Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67 1901 Event President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president 1901 Birthday Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt, 1952-54 1901 Birthday Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba, 1933-44, 1952-59 1901 Birthday Ngo Dinh Diem, president/dictator of South Vietnam, 1955-63 1900 Event Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession 1900 Event South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany 1900 Event South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders 1900 Event President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan 1900 Event AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace 1900 Event South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe 1900 Birthday Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/president, 1964-67 1900 Event President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique 1900 Birthday Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland, 1956-81 1900 Birthday Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina, 1963-66 1900 Event President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin 1900 Birthday Owen Aisher, president, Marley 1900 Event President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris 1900 Birthday Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon 1900 Event President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein 1900 Event Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees 1900 Birthday 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 1899 Event South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum 1899 Birthday Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/president, Pennsylvania State 1899 Birthday Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany 1899 Birthday Konstantijn Tsatsos, president Greece 1899 Birthday James B. Connant, chemist/college president, Yale 1899 Event President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.) 1899 Death Francois Felix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57 1899 Event U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam 1899 Birthday Kenjiro Takayanagi, Vice President, JVC 1898 Birthday Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy, 1964-71 1898 Birthday Lillian Carter, President Carter's, 1977-1981, mom 1898 Birthday Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL President, 1943-46 1898 Birthday Johannes J Fouche, president South Africa 1898 Birthday Eugene R. Black, U.S., President of World Bank, 1953-62 1898 Event U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors 1898 Birthday Grantley H. Adams, president of Barbados 1898 Event 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 1896 Birthday Sandro Pertini, president Italy 1896 Birthday Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society 1896 Birthday Warren Giles, baseball's National League president 1896 Birthday Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/president of Nicaragua, 1937-56 1896 Death Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies 1896 Event Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid 1895 Birthday William V S Tubman, Whig, 17th Liberian president, 1943-70 1895 Birthday Juan Peron, Argentine President, 1946 - 1955, 1973 - 1974 1895 Birthday Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP 1895 Birthday Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization 1895 Birthday John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man 1895 Event French president Casimir-Perier resigns 1895 Event 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 1894 Death Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68 1894 Birthday 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 1894 Death M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56 1894 Birthday Francisco H. Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general and president, 1951-58 1894 Death Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91 1894 Birthday Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman, 1st President of UN 1893 Birthday Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8 1893 Birthday Walter Ulbricht, president East Germany 1893 Event Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time 1893 Event Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term) 1893 Birthday 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 1893 Death Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74 1893 Event 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 1891 Birthday Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, University of California 1891 Event President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco 1891 Birthday Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council 1891 Birthday Antonio Segni, premier/president, Italy 1890 Birthday Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France, 1958-69 1890 Birthday Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines, 1949-53 1890 Birthday Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison, Texas, R, 34th President, 1953 - 1961, General, WW 2 1890 Birthday 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 1890 Birthday Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957 1890 Birthday 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 1889 Event President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization 1889 Event Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president 1889 Event President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana and Washington state 1889 Birthday 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 1888 Birthday Henry A Wallace, D/P, 33rd Vice President, 1941-45, founder Progressive Party 1888 Birthday Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President 1888 Death Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77 1888 Birthday Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president, India, philosopher 1888 Event Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president 1888 Event 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 1887 Birthday Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy 1887 Birthday Alfred M Landon, R-Ks, President candidate, 1932, 1936 1887 Event President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois 1887 Birthday 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 1886 Event Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland 1886 Event 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 1885 Death Ulysses S Grant, 18th U.S. president, dies in Mount McGregor, New York, at 63 1885 Death 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 1885 Birthday Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland, 1939-40 1884 Birthday Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia 1884 Birthday Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovakian president, Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel 1884 Birthday Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48 1884 Event Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for 1st President term 1884 Birthday Ismet Inonu, Moestafa Ismet, Turkish gen/premier/president 1884 Event Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President 1884 Birthday Vincent Auriol, president of France, 1947-53 1884 Birthday Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist, Dona Barbara, President, 1947-48 1884 Birthday Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1921-22, 35-48 1884 Birthday Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd U.S. President, D, 1945-1953 1884 Birthday 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 1883 Event 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 1882 Birthday Rene Coty, born in Le Harve, France, president of France, 1953-58 1882 Birthday 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 1881 Birthday William J Clothier, 1st President of tennis hall of fame, U.S. Open 1906 1881 Event Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president 1881 Death James A Garfield, 20th president (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49 1881 Death James A. Garfield, American President 1881 Event President Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker 1881 Birthday Kemal Ataturk, 1st President of Rep of Turkey 1881 Event James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president 1881 Event South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire 1881 Birthday Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland, 1944-52, poet, Figur ild 1881 Birthday William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32 1881 Birthday 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 1880 Birthday William T. Cosgrave, president Irish Free state 1880 Birthday Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24 1880 Birthday 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 1879 Event Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education 1878 Birthday Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, 1st president of Philippines, 1935-42 1878 Birthday 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) 1878 Event Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield 1878 Birthday Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian President of IOC, 1925-42 1877 Birthday Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President 1877 Birthday Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president, 1924-28 1877 Death Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80 1877 Death Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies 1877 Birthday Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain, 1931-36 1877 Event President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends 1877 Event President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C. 1877 Event Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president 1877 Event Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president 1877 Event Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory 1877 Birthday Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics 1876 Event U.S. Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won) 1876 Event 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 1876 Event President Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring 1876 Birthday 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 1874 Birthday Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman, 1st President 1874 Birthday Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, R, 31st President, 1929-1933 1874 Birthday Herbert Hoover, American President 1874 Event Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown U 1874 Birthday Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy, 1948-55 1874 Birthday 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 1873 Birthday David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th President of Mormon church 1873 Event Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President 1873 Event President Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians 1873 Birthday Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism 1873 Birthday Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president 1873 Birthday 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 1872 Birthday Calvin Coolidge, Silent Cal, Plymouth Vt, R, 30th President, 1923-29 1872 Event Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president 1871 Event President Grant re-elected 1871 Event President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus 1871 Event President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan 1871 Birthday Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania 1871 Event 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) 1870 Birthday Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president, 1918-20, 45-50 1870 Birthday 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 1870 Birthday George A. Smith, born in Salt Lake City Utah, 8th President of Mormon church 1870 Event Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president 1870 Death 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 1868 Birthday Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, president of Argentina, 1922-28 1868 Event 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 1868 Event President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote 1868 Event By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1868 Event Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial 1868 Event U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson 1868 Event 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 1867 Event President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton 1867 Event Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1867 Event President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska 1867 Birthday Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland, 1944-46 1867 Event Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto 1867 Event 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 1866 Event Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1866 Event President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia 1866 Event President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment 1865 Birthday Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, R, 29th President, 1921-23 1865 Birthday Warren G. Harding, American President 1865 Event President Johnson paroles CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens 1865 Birthday Charles Gates Dawes, R, 30th Vice President, 1925-29, Nobel 1925 1865 Birthday Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President 1865 Event President Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx 1865 Event President Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states 1865 Event President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1865 Event 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 1865 Event President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth 1865 Event CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia 1865 Event President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball 1865 Event President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president 1865 Birthday Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker and president, Bank of Java 1865 Event President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners 1865 Birthday Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 1st president of Finland, 1919-25 1864 Event Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president 1864 Event 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 1864 Event President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service 1864 Event CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood 1864 Event 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 1863 Event 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 1863 Event President Davis orders service duty for confederate army 1863 Event President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer 1863 Birthday Augusto Bernardino Leguia y Salcedo, president of Peru, 1908, 1919 1863 Event President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address 1863 Event President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful 1862 Event President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union 1862 Event President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians 1862 Event 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 1862 Event Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with U.S. president 1862 Death 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 1862 Event Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln 1862 Death 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 1861 Event Former Vice President John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky 1861 Event President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy 1861 Event President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory 1861 Event President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus 1861 Event U.S. president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states 1861 Event Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Lincoln 1861 Event Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president 1861 Event President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office 1861 Event Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Alabama 1861 Event Abraham Lincoln declared president 1861 Event Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America 1861 Event Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy 1861 Event 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 1860 Event Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president 1860 Birthday Charles Curtis, R, 31st U.S. Vice President, 1929-33 1859 Birthday Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico, 1915-20 1859 Birthday 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 1857 Birthday William Howard Taft, Cin, R, 27th President, 1909-13, chief justice 1857 Birthday Paul Doumer, Governor-Generall of Indo-China/13th President of France, 1931-32 1857 Birthday Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College 1856 Birthday Woodrow Wilson, American President 1856 Birthday 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 1852 Event 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 1851 Birthday David Starr Jordan, New York, biologist/university President, Leland Stanford 1851 Event 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 1850 Event Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of U.S. (replacing Taylor) 1850 Birthday John Munroe Longyear, U.S., capitalist/bank president 1850 Birthday Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College 1850 Birthday Tomas G. Masaryk, born in Czechoslovakia, Father/President of Czechoslovakia, 1918-35 1850 Birthday 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. 1849 Death 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 1849 Event Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president 1849 Event 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 1848 Event General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US 1848 Event Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president 1848 Event 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 1848 Event James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady 1847 Birthday Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president 1847 Birthday 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 1845 Event President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas 1845 Event Uniform U.S. election day for president and Vice President authorized 1845 Birthday Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman President, National Educational Association 1844 Event James K Polk elected 11th president of US 1844 Event 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 1838 Birthday Joseph F Smith, 6th President of Mormon church 1838 Birthday John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln 1837 Birthday Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated 1837 Birthday Grover Cleveland, born in New Jersey, 22nd/24th President, 1885-89, 93-97 1837 Event Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president 1837 Event U.S. president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas 1837 Event 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) 1836 Event Martin Van Buren elected 8th president 1836 Event Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas 1836 Death Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President, dies 1836 Event Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas 1836 Death 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. 1835 Birthday 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 1834 Event 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 1832 Event Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US 1832 Birthday Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell 1832 Event 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 1831 Death 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 1830 Birthday Chester A. Arthur, American President 1830 Birthday 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 1829 Event Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president 1829 Event 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 1826 Death 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 1825 Birthday Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president, 188?..94 1825 Death Daniel D Tompkins, 6th U.S. Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54 1825 Event John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president 1825 Event 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 1824 Birthday William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua, 1856-57 1823 Event President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine" 1823 Event Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 1823 Birthday Schuyler Colfax, R, 17th Vice President, 1869 - 1873 1823 Event President Monroe appoints 1st U.S. ambassadors to South America 1822 Birthday Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council, 1885-97 1822 Birthday Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, R, 19th President, 1877-81 1822 Birthday Rutherford B. Hayes, American President 1822 Birthday Charles S Crocker, President of Central and South Pacific Railroad 1822 Birthday 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 1820 Event 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 1819 Birthday Thomas Andrews Hendricks, D, 21st U.S. Vice President 1819 Birthday 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 1812 Birthday Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President, Confederacy 1811 Birthday Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA 1811 Birthday Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina, 1868-74 1811 Event President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years 1811 Event 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 1809 Birthday Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia 1809 Event Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes 1809 Birthday 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 1808 Birthday 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) 1807 Event 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 1804 Event 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president 1804 Event 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. 1801 Event House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr 1800 Event John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House 1800 Event 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 1797 Birthday 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 1796 Event 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 1793 Event 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 1792 Birthday George Mifflin Dallas, D, 11th Vice President, 1845-49 1792 Event Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London 1792 Event 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 1790 Birthday Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay, 1844-62 1790 Birthday Jose Antonio Paez, president of Venezuela 1790 Birthday John Tyler, born in Virginia, 10th President, 1841-1845 1790 Event Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State 1790 Event President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address 1789 Event President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice 1789 Event George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States 1789 Event John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President (9 days before Washington) 1789 Event 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 1782 Birthday 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 1767 Birthday Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew, 1828-37, died 1828 1767 Birthday 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
