History Hop Tags - Pres

1791-03-04

Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session

1793-04-22

Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US

1812-12-02

James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres

1816-12-04

James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King

1825-12-06

Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory

1836-10-22

Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas

1848-06-22

Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres

1849-03-04

US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd

1851-01-15

Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera

1851-12-04

Pres Louis Napoleon Boaparte's forces crush an attempted coup d'etat in France

1853-07-14

Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)

1861-01-04

Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession

1861-08-16

Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy

1862-02-25

Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln

1862-12-06

Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians

1863-07-15

Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army

1866-08-10

Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria

1870-06-09

Washington: Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud

1873-06-16

Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians

1874-07-31

Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U

1874-12-15

1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant

1876-02-07

Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring

1876-11-07

Pres Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)

1876-12-06

US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)

1883-05-24

Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland

1884-09-20

Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP

1886-02-09

Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence

1888-11-06

Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes

1889-03-23

Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization

1891-04-25

Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF

1893-01-04

US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy

1896-01-03

Emperor Wilhelm congratulates Pres Kruger on the Jameson Raid

1899-02-10

US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam

1899-03-02

Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th in US)

1899-12-04

Webb Hayes, son of pres Rutherford Hayes, receives medal of honor

1900-03-07

Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees

1900-10-31

AL pres Ban Johnson writes to NL pres Nick Young seeking peace

1900-12-09

Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession

1901-09-19

11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley

1902-08-22

Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car

1903-01-02

Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1903-07-04

Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message

1906-12-10

Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1906-12-20

Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet

1907-01-01

Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

1908-11-03

William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan

1910-04-15

Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game

1911-01-02

Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000

1911-02-08

US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras

1911-05-18

Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends

1911-08-14

General Leconte appointed temporary pres of Haiti

1911-12-30

Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China

1912-05-19

AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball

1912-08-07

Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres

1913-04-26

Sun Yet San calls for revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China

1913-10-27

Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country

1915-01-28

US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

1918-01-08

Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after the Great War

1918-03-07

Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal

1918-12-04

Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office

1919-02-05

NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers

1919-07-08

Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference

1920-05-05

US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal

1921-11-23

Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes

1922-06-14

Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1922-09-21

Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

1923-02-20

Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves

1923-03-14

Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes

1924-02-03

Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

1924-05-26

Pres Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration

1924-10-15

Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument

1925-01-22

Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu

1925-03-04

Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations

1927-01-31

NL Pres John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants

1927-02-10

Pres Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference

1927-02-23

Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)

1928-12-11

Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover

1928-12-11

NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers

1928-12-17

John McGraw backs NL Pres John Heydler's designated hitter idea

1929-01-03

27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres

1929-02-26

US Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park

1930-03-11

Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington

1932-06-06

Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile

1933-02-06

Pres von Hindenburg & von Papen ends Prussian parliament

1933-02-15

Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

1933-02-28

German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion

1933-03-04

FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"

1933-10-15

20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March

1934-03-12

Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia

1935-01-01

Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"

1936-06-18

Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power

1936-12-08

Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua

1938-03-18

Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies

1940-11-05

Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)

1943-01-10

1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

1943-07-28

Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US

1943-09-13

Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres

1943-10-14

Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/pres Jose Laurel)

1943-12-04

-Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu

1945-04-12

Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres

1946-06-28

Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy

1946-10-06

US Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine

1946-11-09

Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze

1946-12-05

Pres Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808

1946-12-31

Pres Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

1947-03-12

Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

1947-03-21

Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States

1947-06-20

Pres Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act

1948-04-20

Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit

1948-06-07

Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns

1948-07-15

Pres Harry Truman nominated for another term (Phila)

1948-07-26

Pres Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in armed forces

1948-11-02

Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey

1949-01-20

Pres Harry Truman announces his point 4 program

1949-09-12

Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR

1949-10-06

US Pres Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

1950-04-24

Pres Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government

1950-06-26

Pres Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence

1950-07-27

Pres Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan

1950-08-15

Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia

1950-11-01

Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House

1952-06-10

Pres Harry Truman desires nationalizing steel industry

1952-12-08

Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel

1953-02-11

Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

1953-12-16

1st White House Press Conference (Pres Eisenhower & 161 reporters)

1954-02-02

Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)

1954-03-01

Rebellion during visit of pres Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die

1954-06-14

Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge

1954-07-12

Pres Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system

1954-10-27

Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem

1954-11-14

Egyptian pres Naguib fire, state of emergency declared

1955-02-12

Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam

1955-06-16

Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron

1955-08-12

Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour

1955-10-03

Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes pres of Brazil

1955-10-26

Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres

1956-01-16

Egyptian pres Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine

1956-02-05

NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build

1956-02-29

Pres Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term

1956-08-22

Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF

1956-10-11

AL Pres Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners

1956-11-06

US Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)

1957-01-26

Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as Pres of Milwaukee Braves

1958-04-28

Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

1958-07-06

Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico

1958-07-07

Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood

1958-07-15

Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months

1958-12-07

Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela

1958-12-19

1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")

1958-12-21

Charles de Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France

1959-01-08

Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic

1959-03-25

French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary

1959-05-30

Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua

1959-05-30

Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament

1959-06-17

Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland

1959-07-01

Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany

1959-08-18

Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League

1960-03-26

Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem

1960-05-07

Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR

1960-06-16

Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan

1960-11-12

Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails

1961-03-13

Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party

1961-03-14

George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets

1962-02-27

South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed

1962-03-09

Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians

1962-03-29

Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army

1962-05-14

Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years

1963-06-28

Belaunde Terry inaugurated as pres of Peru

1963-08-15

Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville

1963-12-20

Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville

1964-01-27

Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican Pres bid

1964-03-31

Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military

1964-04-02

Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, Pres Goulart ousted

1964-07-16

Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate

1964-11-03

LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres

1964-12-13

In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border

1965-06-19

Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, pres Ben Bella fired

1965-11-25

Congo military coup under Gen Mobutu, Pres Kasavubu overthrown

1966-01-13

1st black selected for pres cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

1966-02-24

Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

1966-09-19

Mike Burke named Yankees pres

1967-03-07

Teamster pres Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)

1967-03-15

Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil

1968-02-06

Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one

1968-11-06

Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey

1968-12-02

Pres Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor

1968-12-13

Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power

1969-03-25

Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres

1970-04-01

Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71

1970-06-09

Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania

1970-09-22

Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

1970-11-03

Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

1971-04-07

Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free

1971-05-18

Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus

1971-07-15

Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China

1971-08-12

Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan

1971-08-22

Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out

1971-12-02

Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes pres of UAE

1972-02-15

Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time

1972-02-27

Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique

1972-02-28

Pres Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China

1972-03-02

Jean-Bédell Bokassa appoints himself pres for life of Cent African Rep

1972-03-10

Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia

1972-06-23

Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

1972-11-07

Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)

1972-12-30

Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks

1973-01-15

Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam

1973-03-24

SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams

1973-06-01

Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"

1973-07-13

Hector de Campora resigns as pres of Argentina

1973-07-23

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

1973-08-22

Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws

1973-09-14

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

1973-10-23

Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president

1973-11-21

Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate

1973-11-25

Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos

1973-12-18

Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres

1973-12-20

AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees

1974-03-02

Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up

1974-07-01

Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina

1974-09-16

Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters

1974-09-30

Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Spinola as pres of Portugal

1974-11-21

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

1975-05-07

Pres Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"

1975-07-29

Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz

1975-07-29

Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired

1975-10-14

Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside

1975-11-29

Pres Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped

1976-01-11

Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves

1976-01-15

Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford

1976-07-14

Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC

1976-09-24

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

1976-10-06

US Pres Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"

1976-12-19

Pres Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin

1977-02-24

Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights

1977-03-07

Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter

1977-04-03

Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter

1977-06-12

Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library

1977-09-07

Pres Carter & Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties

1977-09-15

Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs

1977-11-15

Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran

1977-11-17

Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel

1977-11-20

Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset

1977-12-25

Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets Egyptian Pres Sadat in Egypt

1977-12-30

Carter holds 1st news conference by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)

1978-01-01

Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909

1978-04-07

Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb

1978-06-15

Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair

1978-07-01

Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974

1978-07-08

Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy

1978-07-13

Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II

1978-07-27

Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares

1978-10-17

Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship

1978-12-01

Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size

1979-01-14

Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

1979-01-29

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

1979-02-07

Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds pres Boumedienne in Algeria

1979-02-18

Pres Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh

1979-04-02

Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat

1979-06-04

South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal

1979-06-18

US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear wepons

1979-07-16

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

1979-07-24

Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves

1979-10-17

Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education

1979-11-01

Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees

1979-12-27

Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown

1980-02-03

Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy

1980-05-29

Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan Jr National Urban League pres

1981-01-09

Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal

1981-03-30

Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III

1981-05-30

Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers

1981-06-12

Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election

1982-02-05

Suriname pres Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Neth

1982-02-07

Luis A Monge elected pres of Costa Rica

1982-03-23

Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, pres Romeo Lucas flees

1982-04-29

Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador

1982-04-30

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

1982-12-01

Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as pres of Mexico

1982-12-15

Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery

1983-05-30

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

1983-06-06

Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR

1983-07-28

AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows

1983-08-08

Military coup in Guatemala, Pres Rios Montt flees

1984-04-11

Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named pres of Soviet Union

1985-01-02

Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III

1985-03-31

El Salvador's Pres Duartes' Christian-Democrats win election

1986-01-13

South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents

1986-02-16

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

1986-05-16

South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela

1986-06-08

Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria

1986-06-13

Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

1986-09-11

Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres

1986-12-07

Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti

1987-02-04

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

1987-07-18

Molly Yard elected new pres of National Organization for Women

1987-10-12

Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987-10-13

Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987-12-23

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

1988-01-25

Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname

1988-04-05

Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate

1988-07-27

General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma

1988-09-08

NL pres Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commissioner

1988-12-20

Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka

1988-12-30

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

1989-01-20

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

1989-05-15

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

1989-11-26

Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay

1989-12-01

USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

1990-02-02

South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs

1990-03-15

Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil

1990-04-25

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

1990-05-27

Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia

1990-09-24

West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty

1990-11-22

Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia

1990-11-29

Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman

1990-12-16

Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected pres of Haiti

1991-01-01

Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak

1991-01-13

Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected

1991-06-17

Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died

1991-07-08

Pitts Pirate Pres Carl Barger becomes 1st pres of Fla Marlins

1991-09-18

Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee

1992-01-11

Algeria's Pres Chadli announces his resignation

1992-03-03

Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to

1992-04-05

Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress

1992-05-02

Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian Pres Alija Izetbegovic

1992-07-11

Pres candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"

1992-10-02

VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil

1993-01-11

Independent pres candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics

1993-05-09

Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years

1993-06-01

Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi

1993-06-06

Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala

1993-07-10

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

1993-10-04

Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)

1993-10-21

Military coup by Burundi Pres Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee

1994-01-27

Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras

1994-03-07

Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia

1994-03-20

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

1994-06-11

Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria

1994-07-22

Military coup in Gambia: Pres Dawda Jawara flees

1994-08-11

Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau

1994-10-15

Botswana Pres Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election

1994-10-15

Pres Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti

1995-03-11

Pres Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament

1995-06-26

Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed

1997-05-27

Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO

1998-02-09

Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze

1998-07-12

Pres. Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London

1721-04-13

John Hanson, Maryland, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation

1731-07-03

Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres

1783-03-08

Hannah Hoes Van Buren, NY, wife of pres Martin (1837-41) (died 1819)

1790-03-29

John Tyler, Charles City County Virginia, (D/W) 10th Pres (1841-1845)

1804-11-23

Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857)

1807-08-11

David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849

1808-12-29

Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)

1810-03-10

John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)

1820-05-04

Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)

1822-09-16

Charles S Crocker, Pres of Central & South Pacific Railroad

1825-10-10

Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader

1831-11-19

James A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)

1833-08-20

Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)

1834-03-20

Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)

1837-03-18

Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)

1837-08-11

Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated

1838-11-13

Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church

1842-12-03

Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Economics Association-1st Pres)

1845-01-15

Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)

1847-06-30

Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)

1850-03-07

Tomés G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)

1850-03-10

Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College

1851-01-19

David Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford)

1851-03-19

Roque Saenz Pena, pres of Argentina (1910-14)

1855-06-14

Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)

1856-11-22

Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church

1857-03-22

Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32)

1857-09-15

William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice

1857-10-02

Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902)

1858-10-27

Theodore Roosevelt, NYC, (R) 26th Pres (1901-09; Nobel 1906), (d. 1919)

1859-12-29

Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20)

1861-08-06

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Oration

1862-04-02

Nicholas Murray Butler, US, Columbia University pres/pacifist (Nobel 1931)

1863-08-01

Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34)

1865-06-19

Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate

1865-11-02

Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (R) 29th pres (1921-23)

1870-04-04

George A Smith, Salt Lake City Utah, 8th pres of Mormon church

1871-06-17

Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania

1873-09-08

David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th pres of Mormon church

1874-03-17

Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America

1874-12-21

Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36)

1876-01-03

Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/pres (1949-60)

1876-02-26

Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)

1877-11-24

Alben W Barkley, Graves County Ky, (35th Vice Pres-D-1949-53)

1878-03-25

Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42)

1880-01-10

Manuel Azaña y Diaz, PM/pres of 2nd Spanish republic (1936-39)

1881-02-25

William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)

1881-09-27

William J Clothier, 1st pres of tennis hall of fame/(US Open-1906)

1881-10-05

Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist pres of Karelo-Finnish SR (1940-56)

1884-11-20

Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist (Pres Candidate 1928-48)

1886-01-31

Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948)

1887-02-26

Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)

1887-10-31

Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province China, pres of Nationalist China

1888-12-07

Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of American Newspaper Guild

1890-07-18

Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57)

1890-10-14

Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison Tx, (R) 34th Pres (1953-1961)/Gen (WW 2)

1891-05-22

Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of California)

1891-12-19

Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86)

1893-02-06

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63)

1893-08-15

Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)

1894-02-15

Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)

1895-03-31

John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man)

1895-07-10

Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization

1895-10-08

Juan Peron, Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74)

1896-02-01

Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)

1898-05-01

Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)

1898-07-23

Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)

1898-08-15

Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom

1899-09-15

Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State)

1900-02-05

Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956)

1900-08-04

Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)

1900-09-20

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/pres (1964-67)

1901-01-03

Ngo Dinh Diem, pres/dictator of South Vietnam (1955-63)

1901-09-28

William Samuel Paley, Chicago Ill, pres/CEO of CBS (1928-90)

1902-07-15

Jean Rey, Belgium, pres of European Commission (1967-70)

1902-10-03

Arturo da Costa e Silva, marshal/pres of Brazil (1967-69)

1903-02-18

Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR (1965-77)

1904-07-24

James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)

1905-10-18

Felix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory coast (1960-93)

1906-02-17

Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)

1906-10-12

Joe Cronin, baseball (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres)

1907-04-13

Harold Stassen, W St Paul Minn, (Gov-R-Minn) perennial pres candidate

1907-06-11

Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art)

1907-06-29

Paul O'Dwyer, pres of City Council (D-NYC)

1907-09-23

Jarmila Novotna, soprano (Met Opera)/pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)

1908-02-22

Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)

1909-01-01

Barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- )/Pres candidate (R) 1964)

1909-03-06

Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83)

1909-06-20

Cecil Marley, cricketer (Jamaican batsman 1928-1946, WICBC pres)

1909-06-30

Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)

1909-08-27

Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist

1910-03-18

Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)

1910-08-12

Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary (Natl Association of Women)

1911-04-24

Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976)

1911-05-27

Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate

1912-08-25

Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany)

1913-09-10

Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- )

1914-12-14

Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84)

1916-03-29

Eugene J McCarthy, Watkins Minn, (Sen-D-Minn, pres candidate 1968)

1917-05-29

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)

1917-09-30

Chung Hee Park, general/pres of South Korea (1961-79), assassinated

1918-08-29

Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/pres Netherlands Bank

1918-12-21

Kurt Waldheim, Nazi/4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81)/Austrian pres (1986-92)

1918-12-25

Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian Pres (1970-81, Nobel 1978)

1919-08-25

George C Wallace, Clio Ala, (gov-D-Ala)/pres candidate

1919-11-10

Moise Tshombe, pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)

1920-05-13

Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70- )/pres (1994- )

1921-03-23

Ian Todd, pres (Royal College of Surgeons)

1921-09-05

Jack Valenti, Pres (Motion Picture Association of America)

1922-07-19

George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)

1923-02-17

Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)

1923-05-26

Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)

1923-07-06

Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/pres (1989-90)

1924-01-17

Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/pres (California State U at Fullerton)

1924-02-17

Margaret Truman, Mo, pres daughter/writer (Murder at FBI)/pianist

1924-08-18

Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12]

1924-11-30

Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) 1st black congresswoman/pres candidate

1925-03-01

Al Rosen, Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (AL MVP 1953)/NY Yankee pres

1925-07-18

George Doggart, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1950)/MCC pres

1926-03-13

RaulAlfonsín, Argentine pres (1983-89) (or 3/12/1927)

1926-05-09

Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal)

1926-08-11

Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/pres (Laura Ashley)

1927-07-06

Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)

1927-07-13

Simone Veil, Pres European parliament (France)

1928-03-18

Fidel V Ramos, pres (Phillipines)

1928-05-01

Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/pres (l'ASIFA)

1929-04-09

Harvey Lichtenstein, pres (Bkln Academy of Music)

1930-03-22

Pat Robertson, televangelist (700 club, Pres candidate-R-1989)

1930-03-30

David Staple, joint pres (Council of Churches for Brit & Ireland)

1930-08-18

Carl Barger, Lewistown Pa, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins)

1933-11-03

Michael S Dukakis, (Gov-D-Mass, 1988 Pres Candidate)

1934-01-03

Carla Hills, politician (US Pres Commission on Housing-1982)

1934-01-28

Bill White, US, 1st baseman (Cards)/announcer (Yanks)/pres (NL)

1934-02-09

John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe Mich, 4th NHL pres (1977-92)

1935-07-09

Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance (PvdA)/pres (Nethche Bank)

1935-07-24

Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)

1936-03-28

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru, writer (Aunt Julia)/pres candidate

1936-04-05

Michael Livesay, British admiral/pres (RN College Greenwich)

1936-10-05

Vaclav Havel, writer/pres Czechoslovakia (1989-92)

1937-03-29

Billy Carter, Plains Georgia, brother of Pres Carter

1937-05-18

Jacques Santer, Pres (European Commission)

1937-05-20

Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)

1938-04-04

A Bartlett Giamatti, Boston, pres of Yale/baseball commish (1989)

1938-04-14

Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/pres (Beaumont College)

1938-08-14

Niara Sudarkasa, [Gloria M Clark], educator/pres (Lincoln College)

1939-01-09

Robertinho do Acordeon, Presídio de Mulheres Violentadas

1939-01-30

Eleanor Smeal, feminist/pres (NOW)

1939-04-10

Alan Rothenberg, US Soccer pres (1990- )

1942-01-14

Carol Bellamy, Planfield NJ, (City Council Pres-D-NYC, 1978-85)

1942-06-05

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, pres of Equatoriaal Guinee (1979- )

1942-10-26

John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to pres (Botha/De Klerk)

1943-07-08

Faye Wattleton, St Louis Mo, sociologist/pres (Planned Parenthood)

1944-05-21

Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )

1944-09-21

Hamilton Jordan, political advisor (Crisis, Last Year of Carter Pres)

1945-01-21

Andrew Stein, pres of NYC council (D)

1945-08-02

Jewell Jackson McCabe, pres (natl coaltion of 100 black women)

1947-04-01

David Eisenhower, grandson of Pres Dwight, married Julie Nixon

1947-07-02

Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of Pres LBJ

1947-11-10

Bechir Gemayel, pres Lebanon (8/23-9/14, 1982)

1949-05-23

Alan Garcia Perez, pres of Peru (1985-90)

1950-12-16

Ieremia Tabai, pres of Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) (1979-91)

1956-05-19

Steve Ford, actor (Young & Restless)/son of Pres Gerald Ford

1963-01-11

Pres Romanillos, Beauty and the Beast

1967-10-19

Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter/peace activist

1540-05-22

Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57

1684-04-05

William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st pres of Royal Society, dies

1819-12-09

Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide

1836-06-28

James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85

1843-09-03

Cornelis PJ Elout, military/pres of West Sumatra, dies at 47

1862-01-18

John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71

1863-07-26

Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70

1870-03-01

Francisco S Lopez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43

1875-07-31

Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66

1876-06-20

Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79

1889-12-06

Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81

1893-01-11

Benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74

1893-01-17

Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies of a heart attack at 70

1901-05-19

Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81

1901-09-14

Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz

1903-02-01

George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83

1913-02-22

Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39

1913-02-22

Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup

1916-11-28

Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59

1919-01-06

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09), dies in NY at 60

1922-12-16

Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated

1923-08-02

warren harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57

1923-08-14

Jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76

1925-04-18

Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers), dies

1925-05-27

Ed McKeever, pres (Bkln Dodgers), dies of pneumonia

1926-06-25

Symon Petljoera, pres Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris

1928-07-17

Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated

1930-03-08

William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72

1932-05-01

Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov

1932-09-13

Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded

1933-04-30

Luis Sanchez Cerro, Pres of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza

1936-01-06

Charles A Stoneham, pres (NY Giants), dies

1937-09-14

Tomés G Masaryk, philosopher/pres of Czech (1918-35), dies at 87)

1940-11-04

Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/pres (1936-39), dies at 60

1942-01-07

Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, pres of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63

1942-04-23

Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73

1943-01-10

Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66

1946-06-03

Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60

1948-04-14

Walter P Reuther, Pres (United Auto Workers), shot at his home

1948-09-30

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Oration

1949-04-06

Stanley Christopherson, cricketer (1884, MCC Pres during WWII), dies

1950-12-31

Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/pres (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80

1951-03-13

Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate, dies

1952-01-25

Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st pres of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70

1956-08-23

... Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day

1956-11-02

Leo Baeck, Pres of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83

1957-01-04

Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian pres (1951-57), dies at 84

1962-11-03

Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69

1962-11-11

René Coty, pres of France, dies at 80

1964-05-17

Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82

1964-09-02

Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/pres (1951-58), dies at 70

1964-10-12

J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office

1965-06-21

Bernard M Baruch, pres advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94

1965-07-14

Adlai Stevenson, US amb to UN/pres candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies

1967-06-18

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-67), dies at 66

1967-07-18

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 66

1969-03-28

Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78

1970-01-05

Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered

1970-04-07

Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies

1970-06-03

H G Hjalmar Schacht, pres Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies

1970-09-28

Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52

1972-12-01

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

1973-07-26

Mike Burke, Pres (NY Yankees)/dir (Madison Sq Garden), dies

1973-08-01

Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies at 80

1974-07-04

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

1975-02-18

Raymond Moley, US advisor to pres Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88

1976-08-22

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

1977-08-03

Makarios III, [Michail Mouskos], archbishop/pres (Cyprus), dies at 63

1979-09-10

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

1980-07-12

John W Davis, Pres (WV State college), dies at 92

1980-09-17

Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay

1980-10-01

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

1981-05-30

Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated

1981-10-06

[Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62

1982-04-15

5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, executed

1982-04-22

Melville Bell Grosvenor, pres (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80

1982-07-04

Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide

1982-08-29

Nahum Goldmann, pres Zionist World Organization, dies at 87

1983-05-14

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

1984-01-18

Malcolm H Kerr, 9th pres of American U of Beirut, shot dead

1984-09-07

Joe Cronin, shortstop/American League Pres, dies at 77

1985-03-10

Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73

1986-05-15

Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71

1986-12-17

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

1987-05-09

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

1988-01-29

James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59), dies at 83

1988-08-17

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

1988-09-19

Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of Natl Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65

1988-09-25

Billy Carter, Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51

1990-03-05

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

1990-04-26

Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian pres candidate, assassinated

1990-05-09

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

1990-06-05

Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies

1991-06-11

Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies

1992-01-23

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

1992-02-15

William H Schuman, US composer (Pulitzer)/Pres of Julliard, dies at 81

1992-07-19

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

1992-08-14

Flora SA Benson, US, wife of pres Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies

1992-12-09

Carl Barger, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins), dies at 62

1993-05-01

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

1993-07-30

Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97

1993-09-11

Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to pres Aristide, murdered

1993-10-21

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

1993-12-07

Félix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88

1993-12-24

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

1993-12-31

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

1994-01-07

Phoumi Vongvichit, pres of Laos (1986-91), dies

1994-01-10

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

1994-01-20

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan vice-pres (1963-66), dies at about 81

1994-01-21

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

1994-03-05

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

1994-03-23

Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican pres candidate, assassinated at 44

1994-04-07

Francois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76

1994-07-20

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

1994-11-15

Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies

1994-12-03

Giorgi Chanturia, Pres of Georgia, assassinated

1994-12-09

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

1995-01-22

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted, dies at 104

1995-02-15

Lord Taylor of Hadfield, Brit pres of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90

1995-02-22

Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf, dies

1995-03-15

Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26

1995-05-13

Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies

1995-06-08

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

1995-06-30

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

1996-01-08

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

1996-03-26

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

1996-04-29

Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72

1996-04-30

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

1996-05-11

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pres of Nigeria (1963-66), dies

1996-08-01

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

1996-08-06

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

1996-09-27

Najibullah, Pres of Afghanistan Democratic Party (1986-90), executed

1996-12-09

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

1996-12-20

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

1996-12-24

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

1997-02-18

Enrique Peralta Azurdia, milt pres of Guatemala in (1963-66), dies

1997-03-14

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

1997-05-08

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

1997-08-21

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

1997-11-25

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

1997-12-22

Dawn Steel, producer/pres (Col TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51

1998-02-06

Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/pres (1961-63), dies

2005-01-01

Shirley Chisholm, 1st American black congresswoman/pres candidate (b. 1924)

2006-01-02

Robertinho do Acordeon, Presídio de Mulheres Violentadas

2010-07-17

Pres Romanillos, Beauty and the Beast