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President - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1553-07-20 |
John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge |
1608-09-10 |
John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va |
1775-05-24 |
John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress |
1779-09-28 |
American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. |
1781-11-05 |
John Hanson elected first "President of US in Congress assembled" |
1783-11-02 |
General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War |
1784-03-05 |
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade. |
1786-02-13 |
Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia |
1787-02-02 |
Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. |
1789-02-04 |
1st US electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as President and Vice-President |
1789-04-23 |
President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY |
1789-04-30 |
George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States of America |
1789-09-24 |
President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice |
1790-01-08 |
1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address |
1790-03-22 |
Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington |
1792-03-24 |
Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London |
1792-12-05 |
George Washington re-elected as US president |
1793-09-18 |
US President George Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building |
1796-09-19 |
George Washington's farewell address as president |
1796-11-03 |
John Adams elected president of the United States of America |
1797-03-04 |
John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US |
1798-06-25 |
US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens |
1800-03-20 |
Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London |
1800-11-01 |
John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House |
1801-02-17 |
US House of Representatives breaks electoral college tie, chooses Thomas Jefferson President over Burr |
1801-03-04 |
1st US President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson) |
1802-01-25 |
Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic |
1804-02-25 |
Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus |
1804-07-11 |
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. |
1804-12-05 |
Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President, George Clinton Vice President |
1808-12-07 |
James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President |
1809-03-04 |
Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes |
1811-01-02 |
US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US) |
1811-02-11 |
President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years |
1811-12-26 |
A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable. |
1812-12-02 |
James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres |
1820-11-07 |
James Monroe re-elected US president |
1821-03-05 |
Monroe is 1st US president inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun |
1822-01-15 |
Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly. |
1823-01-27 |
President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America |
1823-09-10 |
Simon Bolivar named president of Peru |
1823-12-02 |
President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine" |
1825-02-09 |
House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president |
1825-03-04 |
John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president |
1827-08-22 |
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru. |
1828-05-19 |
U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North |
1828-12-03 |
Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President |
1829-03-04 |
Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President |
1829-03-04 |
Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball |
1829-08-25 |
President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses |
1830-05-13 |
Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president |
1831-12-05 |
Former US President John Q Adams takes his seat as a member of House of Representatives |
1832-07-10 |
President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US |
1832-12-05 |
Andrew Jackson re-elected President of US |
1832-12-28 |
John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson) |
1834-01-29 |
President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute |
1834-03-28 |
Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US |
1835-01-30 |
Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC in 1st attempted assassination of a US President |
1836-07-01 |
US President Andrew Jackson announces to Congress bequest by James Smithson of 100,000 gold sovereigns to found institution in Washington. |
1836-09-05 |
Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas |
1836-12-07 |
Martin Van Buren elected 8th president |
1837-03-03 |
US President Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas |
1837-03-04 |
Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president |
1839-02-07 |
Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president" |
1840-12-02 |
William Henry Harrison elected the 9th President of the United States of America |
1841-04-04 |
Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison |
1844-12-04 |
James K. Polk elected 11th US President |
1845-01-23 |
Uniform US election day for president & VP authorized |
1845-03-01 |
President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas |
1845-03-04 |
James K. Polk inaugurated as 11th US President |
1845-12-02 |
Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. |
1848-01-03 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of the independent African Republic of Liberia. |
1848-08-09 |
US Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president |
1848-11-07 |
General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US |
1848-12-05 |
President Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming gold discovery in California |
1849-02-14 |
In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady). |
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 |
1849-03-05 |
Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th US president |
1849-03-10 |
Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (the US president to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions |
1850-07-10 |
Millard Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor) |
1851-12-02 |
French President Charles Louis Bonaparte in a Coup d'etat overthrows the Second Republic establishing himself as Emperor. |
1852-02-21 |
George Bancroft becomes the American Geographical Society's first president |
1852-11-02 |
Franklin Pierce elected as president of US |
1853-06-24 |
Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce |
1856-02-18 |
The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore. |
1856-11-04 |
James Buchanan elected 15th US president |
1858-01-09 |
Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. |
1858-08-16 |
Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan |
1860-05-18 |
Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president |
1860-11-06 |
Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President |
1861-01-01 |
President-elect of the United States Abraham Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful (US Civil War) |
1861-02-04 |
Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time; Jefferson Davis elected president of Confederacy (US Civil War) |
1861-02-09 |
Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the Confederate States of America (US Civil War) |
1861-02-11 |
President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Washington DC |
1861-02-13 |
Abraham Lincoln declared president in Washington DC |
1861-02-18 |
Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Alabama (US Civil War) |
1861-03-04 |
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th US President |
1861-03-04 |
US President Lincoln opens government Printing Office |
1861-04-15 |
Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Lincoln (US Civil War) |
1861-04-16 |
US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states (US Civil War) |
1861-04-27 |
President A Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil War) |
1861-04-30 |
President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory (US Civil War) |
1861-11-06 |
Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president |
1862-08-14 |
Abraham Lincoln receives the 1st group of African Americans to confer with a US president |
1862-09-22 |
President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 |
1862-12-31 |
President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union |
1863-01-12 |
President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address |
1863-03-27 |
American Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer |
1863-07-30 |
President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot |
1863-11-19 |
US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..." |
1864-06-07 |
Abraham Lincoln renominated for US President by Republican Party |
1864-07-17 |
CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood |
1864-07-18 |
President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service |
1864-10-01 |
John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln |
1864-10-20 |
US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday |
1864-11-08 |
Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President |
1865-01-28 |
Confederate President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners |
1865-03-04 |
President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president |
1865-03-06 |
President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball |
1865-04-02 |
CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA |
1865-04-14 |
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater |
1865-05-02 |
US President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis |
1865-05-19 |
President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia |
1865-06-13 |
President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states |
1865-08-20 |
President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Texas |
1865-10-11 |
President Andrew Johnson paroles Confederate States VP Alexander H. Stephens |
1866-03-27 |
President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment |
1866-04-02 |
US President Johnson ends civil war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va |
1866-04-09 |
Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1866-08-20 |
President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over |
1867-01-08 |
African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Johnson's veto |
1867-01-11 |
Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again. |
1867-03-23 |
Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1867-06-20 |
US President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska |
1867-07-19 |
US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1867-08-12 |
US President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton |
1867-11-25 |
US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson |
1868-02-24 |
House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson |
1868-03-05 |
US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson |
1868-03-13 |
Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial |
1868-05-16 |
By one vote, US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson |
1868-05-26 |
President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote |
1868-06-25 |
US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day |
1868-12-25 |
Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War) |
1869-03-04 |
Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th US President |
1870-07-30 |
The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics |
1870-09-04 |
The Third French Republic proclaimed as French overthrow Emperor Napoleon III (who ironically was the elected president of the Second French Republic) after his defeat by Prussia at Sedan |
1871-04-20 |
3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) |
1871-10-12 |
US President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan |
1871-10-17 |
President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus during US Civil War |
1872-11-05 |
Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President |
1873-06-18 |
Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for President |
1875-01-05 |
President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss |
1876-10-26 |
President sends federal troops to SC |
1877-03-02 |
Rutherford B. Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory |
1877-03-03 |
Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th US president |
1877-03-05 |
Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th US president |
1877-03-18 |
President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC |
1877-04-27 |
President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends |
1878-05-19 |
Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield |
1878-06-11 |
DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974) |
1879-01-02 |
Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education |
1879-01-30 |
French President MacMahon resigns |
1879-05-31 |
Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison |
1880-09-09 |
President Hayes visits SF |
1880-11-02 |
James A Garfield (R) elected 20th US President |
1881-03-04 |
James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president |
1881-03-04 |
South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire |
1881-07-02 |
US President James Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield died 79 days later |
1881-09-20 |
Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president |
1881-11-14 |
Charles J Guiteau went on trial for assassination of President Garfield |
1883-04-16 |
Paul Kruger chosen as president of Transvaal |
1884-11-04 |
Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term. The only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms |
1885-03-04 |
Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st US Democratic President since Civil War |
1886-10-28 |
Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City |
1886-12-08 |
American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
1887-02-08 |
The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. |
1887-04-10 |
President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Ilinois |
1887-12-02 |
French president Grevy (80) resigns |
1888-06-05 |
US Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president |
1888-06-23 |
Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President |
1889-02-22 |
US President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state to the union |
1889-03-04 |
Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president |
1889-12-09 |
President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium |
1890-06-23 |
In an effort to solve the 'Uitlander' grievances regarding voting rights, President Paul Kruger institutes a Second Volksraad, responsible for controlling local matters. |
1890-08-30 |
President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products |
1890-09-24 |
President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned |
1892-08-20 |
The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, is set up with J. Tudhope as president |
1892-11-08 |
Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President |
1893-01-06 |
The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. |
1893-03-04 |
Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term) |
1893-04-22 |
Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time |
1894-07-04 |
Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president |
1895-01-17 |
French president Casimir-Perier resigns |
1895-01-17 |
Félix Faure installed as president of France |
1895-05-25 |
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president. |
1896-11-03 |
William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president |
1897-03-04 |
William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US |
1898-04-11 |
President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration |
1898-04-22 |
US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors |
1898-06-23 |
Emilio Aguinaldo issues a decree replacing his dictatorial government with a revolutionary government, with himself as President |
1899-01-23 |
Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic. |
1899-02-16 |
President Félix Faure of France dies in office. |
1899-10-09 |
South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum |
1900-03-06 |
After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901) |
1900-03-12 |
President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein |
1900-05-28 |
Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, flees its capital, Pretoria, and goes to Watervalboven to evade the advancing British. |
1900-06-19 |
In the USA, the Republican Party nominate President William McKinley for re-election, but choose a new candidate for Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt |
1900-07-15 |
President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin |
1900-09-11 |
President Paul Kruger crosses border into Mozambique |
1900-09-17 |
USA, Anthracite coal miners go out on strike for better wages until the October 25, by which time the owners are persuaded that their stand is harming President McKinley's campaign |
1900-10-19 |
South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe |
1900-11-06 |
Republican President William McKinley and his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, defeat Democrats' William Jennings Bryan in the US elections |
1900-11-22 |
Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France |
1900-11-30 |
The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route |
1900-12-01 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on the same day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser |
1900-12-01 |
Portifiro Diaz is inaugurated for his 6th consecutive term as President of Mexico |
1900-12-02 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany, though the Kaiser refuses the meet him |
1901-03-04 |
President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president; Theodore |Roosevelt serves as Vice President |
1901-05-12 |
US President McKinley visits San Francisco |
1901-09-06 |
US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York |
1901-09-14 |
Theodore Roosevelt is sword in as President, the youngest man to serve as President of the US, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo |
1901-12-31 |
In the first election under their new constitution, Cuba elects a Congress and their first president, Tomas Estrada Palma |
1902-05-20 |
The United States withdraw its troops from Cuba as its first president, Tomas Estrada Palma, is installed |
1902-05-22 |
US President Roosevelt signs a treaty with Mexico under which both countries agree to submit a long-standing dispute over interest payments to the Court of Arbitration at The Hague |
1902-07-01 |
US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA |
1902-07-04 |
Civil government is established in the Philippines by a proclamation from US president Roosevelt, who offers a general amnesty to insurgents |
1902-10-10 |
South Africa's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht |
1902-10-13 |
President Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration |
1902-11-18 |
Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt |
1902-12-07 |
Britain and Germany issue an ultimatum to Venezuela demanding that President Cipriano Castro pay claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899 |
1902-12-13 |
British and German ships begin to bombard the Venezuelan forts after President Castro refuses to comply with an ultimatum demanding that he claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899; Castro asks US President Roosevelt to arbitrate |
1903-02-11 |
US Congress adopts the Expedition Act, which authorizes the Attorney General to 'expedite' anti-trust cases through the courts, reflecting growing popular support for President Roosevelt's 'trust busting' campaign |
1903-02-20 |
Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge |
1903-03-22 |
The Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, and an 'open shop' |
1903-05-14 |
President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco |
1903-06-06 |
President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France |
1904-04-24 |
President Loubet of France visits King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and pointedly ignores the Pope, exacerbating relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church |
1904-06-21 |
The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls 'malefactors of great wealth' |
1904-11-08 |
American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) |
1905-06-08 |
US President Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate an to to war and offering his personal services |
1905-08-05 |
First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York |
1905-09-05 |
The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator |
1906-02-24 |
Tomas Estrada Palma defeats Jose Gomez in the election for president of Cuba, but Gomez and his followers refuse to accept results and sponsor an uprising |
1906-04-14 |
US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press, taken from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress |
1906-05-10 |
Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president Ludwig Forrer open Simplon tunnel |
1906-06-30 |
John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College |
1906-07-17 |
Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with George Clemenceau |
1906-08-23 |
Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention |
1906-10-22 |
Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company |
1906-11-09 |
Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama) |
1906-11-14 |
President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama |
1906-12-11 |
US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo |
1907-10-01 |
A downturn in the stock market leads to a run on the dollar; US President Roosevelt will be forced to call on financier JP Morgan to help manage the financial crisis |
1907-12-16 |
As a gesture of the US's new presence as a world power, President Roosevelt sends the US Battle Fleet on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally |
1908-06-16 |
The Republican Party convenes in Chicago where President Roosevelt picks William H. Taft as his successor |
1908-11-14 |
Liberal candidate Jose Miguel Gomez wins national elections for president in Cuba |
1908-12-04 |
Haiti's president General Alexis Nord flees from military coup |
1909-02-01 |
US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president; ensuing political instability will bring a threat of US intervention in 1912 |
1909-03-04 |
President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm |
1909-07-30 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
1909-08-18 |
Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River. |
1909-09-27 |
US President Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes |
1909-11-18 |
US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya |
1909-12-15 |
Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
1909-12-16 |
A conservative revolution and US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos from office |
1910-04-14 |
President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day |
1910-04-29 |
Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam |
1911-04-27 |
Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the United States Senate. |
1911-05-23 |
NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft |
1911-05-25 |
Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz |
1911-06-29 |
Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes Minister-President of Austria |
1911-08-14 |
United States Senate leaders begin to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death. |
1911-08-24 |
Manuel d'Arriaga elected first president of Portugal |
1911-11-06 |
Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico |
1911-12-29 |
Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China. |
1912-06-18 |
The Chicago national Republican Convention splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the 'Bull Moose Party') |
1912-11-05 |
Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R) |
1913-01-17 |
Raymond Poincaré elected president of France |
1913-01-19 |
Raymond Poincaré installed as president of France |
1913-02-16 |
President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico |
1913-02-18 |
President Francisco Madero of Mexico is overthrown |
1913-03-04 |
Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th US President |
1913-04-10 |
President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1 |
1913-10-10 |
Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China |
1913-10-26 |
Huerta elected president of Mexico |
1913-11-01 |
Less than a week after the US nonintervention promose, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns |
1913-12-09 |
John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League |
1913-12-23 |
President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law |
1914-01-10 |
Yuan Shih-k'ai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor |
1914-02-08 |
General Zamon becomes president of Haiti |
1914-04-09 |
US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people |
1914-04-11 |
Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US |
1914-04-20 |
US President W Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asks a joint session of Congress to approve armed force if necessary; Congress approves |
1914-04-25 |
US President W Wilson is persuaded by the ABC powers - Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - to accept mediation in the conflict with Mexico |
1914-05-01 |
China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification |
1914-05-09 |
US President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day |
1914-07-15 |
Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe |
1914-08-18 |
US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality" |
1914-08-19 |
In a message to the Senate, US President Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name' |
1914-09-05 |
US President Wilson orders the US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; this will lead to the interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping to bring the US into the war |
1915-02-10 |
US President Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost' |
1915-02-10 |
US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans |
1915-06-09 |
US President Wilson sends the second Lusitania note to Germany demanding reparations and prevention of 'recurrence of anything so obviously subversive of the principles of warfare'; Wilson refuses to recognize the 'war zone' that Germany has proclaimed around the British Isles |
1915-06-17 |
The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations |
1915-07-28 |
Because of virtual anarchy, US Marines go ashore in Haiti on orders from President Wilson; this will lead to an occupation that will last until 1934 |
1915-10-09 |
Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game |
1916-01-07 |
In response to pressure from President Wilson, Germany notifies the State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare |
1916-01-10 |
In retaliation for President Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood |
1916-05-02 |
US president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act |
1916-05-27 |
President Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations |
1916-05-29 |
Official flag of president of US adopted |
1916-06-21 |
President Carranza orders his troops to oppose American soldiers at Carrazil, Mexico; 18 American soldiers are killed or wounded |
1916-09-03 |
US President Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike |
1916-09-08 |
US President Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax |
1916-11-07 |
Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected US President |
1916-11-24 |
Mexican and US representatives sign a protocol at Atlantic City, under which Pershing's troops will withdraw and each nation's army will guard the border. President Carranza of Mexico will refuse to accept it |
1916-11-26 |
Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched' |
1917-01-10 |
The Allied Governments respond to US President Wilson's December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war |
1917-01-31 |
Mexican President Carranza announces a new constitution with many liberal elements; most of which his regime will not implement |
1917-02-03 |
US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany |
1917-02-05 |
The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year |
1917-04-02 |
US President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany |
1917-06-12 |
Secret Service extends protection of president to his family |
1918-11-14 |
Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president |
1918-11-22 |
Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland |
1918-12-10 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
1918-12-13 |
Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) |
1919-01-01 |
Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company. |
1919-02-11 |
Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany |
1919-04-05 |
Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann |
1919-07-06 |
William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president |
1919-07-10 |
US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate |
1919-09-25 |
President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke |
1919-09-26 |
US President Wilson hit by a heart attack |
1919-10-02 |
US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed |
1919-10-26 |
US President Woodrow Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden |
1919-10-28 |
Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Wilson's veto |
1919-12-10 |
Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson |
1920-01-17 |
Paul Deschanel elected president of France |
1920-03-28 |
Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia |
1920-06-01 |
Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico. |
1920-06-11 |
Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president |
1920-09-23 |
Alexander Millerand elected president of France |
1920-11-02 |
Warren G Harding elected 29th president |
1920-11-20 |
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson |
1921-03-04 |
Warren G. Haring is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States |
1921-03-06 |
The Natal Indian Congress is resuscitated and reorganised at a meeting in Durban, with Ismail Gora as President |
1921-05-17 |
US President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show |
1921-10-04 |
Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume. |
1921-11-11 |
President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery |
1922-06-12 |
German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich |
1922-06-14 |
Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore |
1922-09-02 |
President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem |
1922-10-24 |
German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 |
1922-12-09 |
Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president |
1922-12-20 |
Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president |
1923-05-31 |
The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President. |
1923-07-08 |
Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) |
1923-08-03 |
Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding |
1923-08-03 |
VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding |
1923-08-13 |
Turkish National Congress selects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Pasja as president |
1923-12-06 |
1st US Presidential address broadcast on radio by President Calvin Coolidge |
1924-05-01 |
Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece |
1924-06-11 |
Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC |
1924-09-28 |
Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico |
1924-11-04 |
US President Calvin Coolidge re-elected |
1924-12-01 |
Calles becomes president of Mexico |
1924-12-09 |
Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president |
1925-01-21 |
Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president |
1925-01-31 |
Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola |
1925-04-25 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany |
1926-04-04 |
Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president |
1926-05-31 |
Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup |
1926-06-01 |
Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland |
1926-06-20 |
Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University |
1926-08-21 |
-22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos |
1926-08-25 |
Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece |
1927-04-11 |
Chilean gen Carlos Ibáñez names himself president |
1927-05-27 |
Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president |
1927-10-17 |
Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president |
1928-06-04 |
President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents. |
1928-06-14 |
Republican National Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert Hoover for President |
1928-06-28 |
Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for US president at Democratic Convention |
1928-10-06 |
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China |
1928-11-04 |
Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua |
1928-11-06 |
Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for US President |
1928-12-05 |
MW Miklas elected president of Austria |
1929-03-04 |
Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President |
1929-06-25 |
President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
1929-06-27 |
President Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I |
1929-07-24 |
President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war |
1929-11-17 |
Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico |
1929-12-14 |
Alexander Zaimis elected president of Greece |
1930-09-06 |
Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. |
1930-10-24 |
A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president." |
1931-02-16 |
Extreme right wing Pehr Evind Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland |
1931-05-04 |
Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president |
1931-05-13 |
Paul Doumer elected president of France |
1931-07-27 |
Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out |
1931-10-04 |
Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile |
1931-12-10 |
Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain |
1931-12-28 |
Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China |
1932-02-29 |
TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States. |
1932-03-09 |
Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland |
1932-04-10 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd) |
1932-04-19 |
President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week |
1932-05-10 |
Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France |
1932-06-16 |
President Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention |
1932-07-01 |
NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago |
1932-07-15 |
President Hoover cuts own salary 15% |
1932-07-27 |
Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death |
1932-07-28 |
President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment |
1932-08-13 |
Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany |
1932-11-08 |
Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time |
1933-01-27 |
Otto Meisnner (Head of the German President's Office) dines with British ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold |
1933-01-29 |
German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor |
1933-02-04 |
German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press |
1933-03-16 |
Hitler names Hjalmar Schacht, president of Bank of Germany |
1933-06-09 |
Spanish president Zamora takes power |
1933-09-04 |
Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista |
1933-11-16 |
Brazilian President Getulio Vargas declares himself dictator |
1934-07-02 |
General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico |
1934-07-10 |
1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia |
1934-07-11 |
FDR became 1st US president to travel through Panama Canal |
1934-08-03 |
Adolf Hitler merges the offices of chancellor and president, declaring himself 'Führer ' (leader). |
1934-11-08 |
Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president |
1934-12-11 |
Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League |
1935-08-20 |
Miltary coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador |
1935-09-17 |
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 2nd President of Philippines |
1935-12-18 |
Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
1936-01-14 |
L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America |
1936-01-15 |
Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants |
1936-01-16 |
Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president |
1936-02-07 |
A flag is authorized for Vice President |
1936-05-10 |
Manuel Azaña elected president of Spain |
1936-08-01 |
Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College |
1936-11-03 |
President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R) |
1937-01-01 |
Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua |
1938-01-11 |
Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank |
1938-05-04 |
Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire |
1938-07-03 |
President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield. |
1938-11-18 |
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
1938-12-14 |
Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president |
1939-01-17 |
Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert |
1939-04-15 |
Albert Lebrun elected president of France |
1939-05-25 |
Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president |
1939-09-17 |
Poland's president Moscicki & PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania |
1940-04-01 |
Filippino President Quezon officially authorizes the printing and publication of the grammar and dictionary prepared by the Institute of the National Language. |
1940-11-06 |
Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President |
1941-01-06 |
President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom from speech, worship, want and fear) during US State of Union address |
1941-06-19 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act |
1941-07-19 |
President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee |
1941-08-14 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter |
1941-10-09 |
A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president. |
1941-12-08 |
President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour |
1942-02-22 |
World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse |
1942-06-21 |
President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC |
1942-10-29 |
Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers |
1942-11-07 |
First US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French |
1943-04-08 |
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities. |
1943-05-26 |
Edwin Barclay of Liberia becomes first president of a black country to visit US |
1943-06-05 |
President Laurel was shot around 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at the Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong |
1943-06-10 |
FDR becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country during wartime |
1943-09-13 |
Chiang Kai-shek became president of China |
1943-10-10 |
Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China |
1943-12-07 |
Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US |
1944-06-22 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) |
1944-07-11 |
Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States. |
1944-07-20 |
US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention |
1944-09-22 |
President Jose P. Laurel declared the country under martial law in 1944 through Proclamation No. 29 |
1944-11-19 |
World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. |
1945-01-20 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as US President |
1945-07-06 |
US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom |
1945-08-08 |
President Harry Truman signs the UN Charter |
1945-08-21 |
US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program |
1945-10-08 |
US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada |
1945-10-29 |
Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, resigns. |
1946-01-22 |
US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency |
1946-02-01 |
Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president |
1946-02-24 |
Juan Peron elected President of Argentina |
1946-03-02 |
Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
1946-03-19 |
Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of USSR |
1946-05-17 |
US President Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike |
1946-05-28 |
Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines |
1946-07-04 |
President Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the 5th President of the Philippines and the first president of the Third Republic at the Independence Grandstand in Manila |
1946-07-26 |
President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces |
1946-08-01 |
US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
1946-10-08 |
Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China |
1946-11-01 |
Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University |
1946-11-21 |
Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub |
1947-01-16 |
Vincent Aurial elected president of France |
1947-02-05 |
Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland |
1947-03-22 |
President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty |
1947-06-23 |
US President Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by Congress |
1947-07-18 |
President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act |
1947-08-23 |
US President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert |
1948-01-07 |
US president Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan |
1948-01-28 |
President Manuel Roxas granted full amnesty to all so-called Philippine collaborators. |
1948-02-02 |
President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program |
1948-04-03 |
US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries) |
1948-04-17 |
Elpidio Quirino assumed the presidency, taking his oath of office two days after the death of President Manuel Roxas |
1948-04-19 |
Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
1948-05-11 |
Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy |
1948-05-16 |
Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel |
1948-06-14 |
Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
1948-07-20 |
Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea |
1948-07-23 |
Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President |
1948-07-31 |
US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY |
1948-09-05 |
In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. |
1949-01-05 |
President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" |
1949-02-17 |
Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel |
1949-02-27 |
Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president |
1949-09-23 |
US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation |
1949-10-07 |
German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier |
1949-10-26 |
US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents |
1949-10-28 |
Georges Bidault elected president of France |
1949-12-16 |
Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia, Mohammed Hatta Premier |
1950-01-31 |
President Harry Truman publicly announces support for development of Hydogen bomb |
1950-02-01 |
Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland |
1950-02-27 |
General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
1950-05-22 |
Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey |
1950-08-13 |
US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai |
1950-08-25 |
US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike |
1950-10-23 |
President Elpidio Quirino issued Executive Order No. 355 which replaced the National Land Settlement Administration with Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO) which takes over the responsibilities of the Agricultural Machinery Equipment Corporation and the Rice and Corn Production Administration |
1950-10-25 |
Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia |
1950-10-26 |
Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president |
1950-11-05 |
Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis |
1950-11-10 |
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected president of Guatemala |
1950-11-13 |
General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. |
1950-11-16 |
US president Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat |
1950-11-18 |
South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions |
1950-11-30 |
US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb |
1951-04-11 |
US President Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur |
1951-07-09 |
US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany |
1951-07-22 |
General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal |
1951-09-04 |
1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman |
1951-09-04 |
US President Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference |
1951-09-20 |
NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball |
1951-10-08 |
Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League |
1951-10-19 |
US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany |
1951-12-04 |
Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government. |
1952-04-08 |
US President Harry Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike |
1952-06-03 |
Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president |
1952-07-24 |
US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike |
1952-08-08 |
Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
1952-09-05 |
General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile |
1952-09-13 |
Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico |
1952-10-25 |
French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam |
1952-11-04 |
General Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th president of the USA, beating Adlai Stevenson (D) |
1952-11-29 |
US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war |
1952-12-03 |
Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela |
1952-12-10 |
Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
1952-12-18 |
Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleve Indians president |
1953-01-07 |
US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb |
1953-01-11 |
J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club |
1953-01-13 |
Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia |
1953-01-14 |
Yugoslavia elects its 1st president (Marshal Tito) |
1953-03-22 |
AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia |
1953-05-22 |
US President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill |
1953-05-31 |
Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government |
1953-06-18 |
Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president |
1953-06-19 |
Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council |
1953-08-13 |
US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee |
1953-12-24 |
René Coty elected president of France |
1953-12-31 |
Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president |
1954-02-23 |
Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli |
1954-04-07 |
US President Eisenhower in news conference first to voice fear of a "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China |
1954-05-20 |
Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China |
1954-06-16 |
Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam |
1954-07-08 |
Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala |
1954-07-12 |
ANC President Albert Luthuli banned by South African Minister of Justice from attending public gatherings and confined to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela, Natal |
1954-07-17 |
Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany |
1954-08-15 |
Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay |
1954-08-23 |
President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily |
1954-08-24 |
US President Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party, at height of McCarthyism |
1954-11-01 |
General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba |
1955-01-02 |
Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. |
1955-01-03 |
Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama |
1955-03-16 |
President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war |
1955-04-29 |
Giovanni Gronchi elected third president of Italy |
1955-06-07 |
1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower) |
1955-08-18 |
Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria |
1955-09-19 |
Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns & flees |
1955-09-24 |
US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver |
1955-11-03 |
Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua |
1955-11-13 |
Argentine general Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president |
1955-11-21 |
Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron |
1955-12-05 |
AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president |
1956-01-31 |
Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil |
1956-02-15 |
Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland |
1956-03-03 |
Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY |
1956-06-02 |
Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow |
1956-06-23 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt |
1957-02-11 |
NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president |
1957-03-17 |
Presidential plane crashes on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu, Philippines killing 25 including Filipino President Ramon Magsaysay |
1957-05-05 |
Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria |
1957-07-12 |
1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower |
1957-09-09 |
US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction |
1957-09-24 |
President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools |
1957-10-10 |
US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware |
1957-10-27 |
Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey |
1957-11-19 |
Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia |
1957-11-25 |
US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech |
1957-11-30 |
Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 |
1958-02-05 |
Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic |
1958-02-12 |
Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala |
1958-02-21 |
Egypt-Syria as United Arab Republic elect Nasser president (99.9% vote) |
1958-02-23 |
Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina |
1958-05-01 |
Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina |
1958-05-04 |
Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia |
1958-05-08 |
US President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock, Arkansas |
1958-05-24 |
Cuban President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion |
1958-07-29 |
US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 |
1958-10-27 |
Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan |
1959-01-13 |
French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death |
1959-03-18 |
President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill |
1959-04-27 |
Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China People's Republic |
1959-06-26 |
Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway |
1959-09-02 |
US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris |
1959-09-16 |
French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination |
1959-11-08 |
Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every seat |
1959-12-08 |
President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi |
1959-12-13 |
Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus |
1959-12-14 |
Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus |
1960-01-22 |
French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu |
1960-01-24 |
Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle |
1960-02-14 |
Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
1960-03-06 |
President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament |
1960-04-27 |
South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns |
1960-05-06 |
US President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 |
1960-07-27 |
US Vice-president Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago |
1960-09-05 |
President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo |
1960-09-05 |
The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. |
1960-10-03 |
Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil |
1960-11-08 |
JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president |
1960-11-27 |
Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast |
1961-01-17 |
President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex". |
1961-01-20 |
Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees |
1961-01-26 |
1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell |
1961-03-01 |
President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp |
1961-05-25 |
President Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon |
1961-08-19 |
US vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin |
1961-08-25 |
Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns |
1961-09-05 |
President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) |
1961-11-16 |
US President Kennedy decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops |
1961-12-19 |
Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization |
1962-01-07 |
Assassination attempt fails on Indonesian president Sukarno |
1962-02-03 |
President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs |
1962-02-05 |
French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
1962-02-07 |
President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports. |
1962-03-28 |
Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees |
1962-04-07 |
Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail |
1962-05-06 |
Antonio Segni elected president of Italy |
1962-05-07 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) |
1962-05-11 |
Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy |
1962-06-11 |
US President John Kennedy accepts an honorary degree from Yale |
1962-06-27 |
In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders |
1962-08-01 |
Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
1962-08-22 |
Failed assassination on French president Charles de Gaulle |
1962-09-04 |
French president De Gaulle visits German FR |
1962-10-20 |
Musical "Mr President" opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances |
1962-10-28 |
Cuban missile crisis: US President Kennedy receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement |
1962-11-17 |
President Kennedy dedicates Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC |
1963-01-01 |
G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank |
1963-02-12 |
Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron |
1963-05-20 |
Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia |
1963-06-08 |
"Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances |
1963-06-10 |
US President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women |
1963-06-11 |
US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act" |
1963-06-23 |
President Kennedy tours Western Europe |
1963-06-26 |
US President John Kennedy visits West Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner";or is it "I am a doughnut") |
1963-06-27 |
US President John Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland |
1963-07-01 |
US President Kennedy arrives in Rome |
1963-07-27 |
General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria |
1963-07-31 |
Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina |
1963-09-15 |
Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria |
1963-10-31 |
J. Edgar Hoover's last meeting with President John F Kennedy |
1963-11-22 |
Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy |
1963-11-22 |
American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas |
1963-12-12 |
Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron |
1963-12-22 |
Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends |
1964-01-02 |
Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
1964-01-08 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty" |
1964-03-25 |
Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy |
1964-06-01 |
Kenya becomes a republic and Jomo Kenyatta its President |
1964-07-02 |
US President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law |
1964-07-15 |
Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans |
1964-07-26 |
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy |
1964-08-18 |
Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon |
1964-08-20 |
US President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion |
1964-09-03 |
Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
1964-09-04 |
Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
1964-09-27 |
Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
1964-10-24 |
Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia |
1964-12-06 |
President Segni of Italy resigns |
1965-01-02 |
Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
1965-02-23 |
Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president |
1965-02-24 |
East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt |
1965-03-11 |
Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto |
1965-03-19 |
Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania |
1965-05-23 |
Franz Jonas elected president of Austria |
1965-06-05 |
Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras |
1965-06-28 |
1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
1965-07-27 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking |
1965-08-06 |
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities |
1965-11-12 |
Ferdinand Marcos elected 10th President of Philippines |
1965-11-24 |
Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu becomes President of Zaire |
1965-12-08 |
Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR |
1965-12-09 |
Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium |
1965-12-13 |
Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow |
1965-12-19 |
French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
1965-12-30 |
Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as President of the Phillipines |
1966-02-21 |
Indonesian president Sukarno dismisses General Nasution |
1966-06-01 |
Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic |
1966-07-06 |
Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president |
1966-09-09 |
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
1966-09-15 |
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. |
1966-10-03 |
Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president |
1966-11-08 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger |
1967-02-05 |
Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
1967-03-12 |
Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority |
1967-04-14 |
General Gnassingbé Eyadéma becomes president of Togo |
1967-05-01 |
Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua |
1967-05-01 |
Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank |
1967-05-06 |
Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India |
1967-05-22 |
Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel |
1967-09-03 |
Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
1967-09-11 |
French president De Gaulle visits Poland |
1967-10-31 |
Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep |
1967-11-05 |
Yemen president Sallal flees |
1967-11-27 |
French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time |
1967-11-29 |
Robert McNamara elected president of World bank |
1967-12-03 |
Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia |
1967-12-09 |
Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes President (dictator) of Romania. In power until 1989 |
1968-02-01 |
Former US VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president |
1968-02-25 |
Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus |
1968-03-27 |
Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia |
1968-03-30 |
General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia |
1968-04-11 |
Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president |
1968-04-11 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act |
1968-05-24 |
French President Charles de Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse |
1968-05-30 |
President De Gaulle disbands French parliament |
1968-05-31 |
American movie star Jimmy Stewart retires from the Air Force after 27 years of service, and is promoted to major general by President Reagan |
1968-06-09 |
Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms |
1968-08-08 |
Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president |
1968-08-09 |
Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague |
1968-08-15 |
Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu visits Prague |
1968-08-29 |
Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US president (Chicago) |
1968-10-03 |
Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru |
1968-10-16 |
China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji |
1968-10-31 |
President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam |
1968-11-19 |
Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees |
1969-01-07 |
US Congress doubles president salary |
1969-01-20 |
Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president |
1969-02-07 |
Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO |
1969-02-27 |
President Nixon visits West-Berlin |
1969-03-05 |
Gustav Heinemann elected president of West Germany |
1969-03-20 |
US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 |
1969-04-28 |
Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France |
1969-06-20 |
Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France |
1969-08-02 |
US President Richard Nixon visits Romania |
1969-09-24 |
Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam |
1969-10-21 |
Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali |
1969-11-03 |
Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium |
1969-11-16 |
US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office: the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins 41-28 |
1969-11-24 |
West German president Heinemann visits Netherlands |
1969-11-26 |
Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon |
1970-01-01 |
Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League |
1970-02-18 |
US president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine" |
1970-06-22 |
President Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18) |
1970-09-01 |
Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador |
1970-09-03 |
Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands |
1970-09-28 |
Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar |
1970-10-15 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt |
1970-10-16 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser |
1970-10-17 |
Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt |
1970-10-24 |
Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile |
1970-11-03 |
"President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs |
1970-11-03 |
Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile |
1970-11-16 |
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky defends operations in Cambodia because communist forces could overrun South Vietnam "within 24 hours" if troops operating there were withdrawn |
1970-12-01 |
Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico |
1970-12-31 |
President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines |
1971-01-03 |
"President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 perfs |
1971-01-06 |
Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate |
1971-02-20 |
Maj General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda |
1971-02-22 |
Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria |
1971-03-12 |
Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president |
1971-03-29 |
Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines |
1971-04-14 |
President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China |
1971-07-06 |
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi |
1971-08-15 |
US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents |
1971-09-16 |
West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet president Brezhnev |
1971-10-24 |
President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O'Brady, then (SF), address a SF Ard Fheis in Dublin, claiming that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as first step in achieving a united Ireland |
1971-12-03 |
US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term |
1971-12-20 |
Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns |
1971-12-22 |
UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General |
1972-01-05 |
US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle |
1972-01-11 |
Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president & sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier |
1972-02-17 |
President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China |
1972-02-21 |
Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China |
1972-02-22 |
President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing |
1972-03-22 |
"Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
1972-03-25 |
"Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 perfs |
1972-04-15 |
Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President |
1972-05-22 |
US president Nixon begins visit to Moscow |
1972-06-05 |
Yugoslav president Josip Tito visits USSR |
1972-06-17 |
Chile president Allende forms new government |
1972-06-25 |
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
1972-07-03 |
Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO) |
1972-07-12 |
Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami Fla |
1972-07-18 |
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aids |
1972-08-05 |
Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians |
1972-09-23 |
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law |
1972-09-23 |
President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines |
1972-11-05 |
Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland |
1972-12-28 |
Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea |
1972-12-29 |
President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O Bradaigh is arrested and held under new legislation in Republic of Ireland |
1973-01-17 |
New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life |
1973-01-23 |
US President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War |
1973-03-14 |
Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland |
1973-04-18 |
US Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program, established in 1959 by President Eisenhower |
1973-04-19 |
Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president |
1973-05-22 |
President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up |
1973-05-25 |
Peronist Hector Campora installed as president of Argentina |
1973-05-29 |
Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records |
1973-06-14 |
US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies |
1973-06-27 |
The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état. |
1973-07-05 |
Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda following military coup |
1973-08-08 |
US vice-president Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign. |
1973-09-11 |
Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup |
1973-09-23 |
Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power |
1973-10-10 |
US Vice President Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns |
1973-10-12 |
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
1973-10-20 |
President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century |
1973-10-20 |
US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox |
1973-10-23 |
Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president |
1973-10-26 |
President Nixon released first White House tapes on Watergate scandal |
1973-11-17 |
US President Richard Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" |
1973-11-27 |
US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls |
1973-12-28 |
US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law |
1974-01-01 |
Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin |
1974-03-15 |
Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns |
1974-03-26 |
Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president |
1974-04-15 |
Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed |
1974-04-29 |
President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House |
1974-04-30 |
US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings |
1974-05-15 |
Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president |
1974-06-27 |
US president Nixon visits USSR |
1974-07-01 |
General Pinochet becomes president of Chile |
1974-07-15 |
Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees |
1974-07-21 |
US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon |
1974-07-30 |
House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up |
1974-08-05 |
US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in |
1974-08-08 |
US President Richard Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 |
1974-08-09 |
Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford swears oath of office to become 38th US president |
1974-08-15 |
South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination |
1974-08-20 |
Nelson Rockefeller selected US Vice President by President Ford |
1974-09-02 |
US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
1974-09-08 |
President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes |
1975-04-01 |
Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer |
1975-04-21 |
Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years |
1975-04-28 |
South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 |
1975-06-05 |
Egypt president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967) |
1975-07-08 |
US President Gerald Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for presidency |
1975-07-30 |
US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa was legally declared dead in 1982 |
1975-08-14 |
-15] Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman |
1975-09-05 |
First Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford in Sacramento by Lynette Fromme in Sacramento |
1975-09-22 |
2nd assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco |
1975-10-26 |
Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit US |
1975-11-20 |
Ronald Reagan announces candidacy for Republican nomination for US President |
1975-12-01 |
US President Gerald Ford visits China PR |
1975-12-09 |
US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan-authorization for NYC |
1975-12-12 |
Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford |
1975-12-17 |
Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on US President Ford's life |
1975-12-22 |
US President Gerald Ford signs the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) |
1976-03-24 |
Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military |
1976-06-27 |
Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president |
1976-06-27 |
In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness |
1976-07-01 |
Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors |
1976-07-17 |
Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor |
1976-08-19 |
President Gerald R Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at KC convention |
1976-09-16 |
Egypt president Sadat re-elected |
1976-10-30 |
Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ |
1976-11-02 |
Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President |
1976-11-19 |
Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal. |
1976-12-01 |
Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president |
1976-12-02 |
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. |
1976-12-03 |
Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland |
1977-01-17 |
Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium |
1977-01-19 |
US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) |
1977-01-21 |
US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders |
1977-01-30 |
Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame |
1977-03-12 |
Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party |
1977-03-16 |
US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland |
1977-04-03 |
Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter |
1977-04-21 |
Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh |
1977-05-24 |
USSR President Podgorny resigns |
1977-06-16 |
Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR |
1977-06-24 |
Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) |
1977-08-04 |
US President Carter establishes Department of Energy |
1977-08-09 |
The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress. |
1977-08-31 |
Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus |
1977-11-01 |
US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981 |
1977-11-14 |
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Walter Cronkite |
1977-11-19 |
-21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel |
1977-11-19 |
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel |
1978-04-19 |
Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel |
1978-05-04 |
Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany |
1978-07-10 |
Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, President Moktar flees |
1978-07-21 |
Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, president Hugo Banzer flees |
1978-10-10 |
Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya |
1978-10-11 |
Aristides Royo elected president of Panama |
1978-10-13 |
US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio |
1978-10-27 |
President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill |
1978-11-11 |
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives |
1978-12-16 |
Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR |
1979-02-08 |
Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time. |
1979-04-04 |
Ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. |
1979-05-23 |
West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president |
1979-06-03 |
Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya |
1979-07-04 |
Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed |
1979-08-08 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents |
1979-08-30 |
US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga |
1979-09-20 |
Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola |
1979-09-20 |
Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation. |
1979-09-23 |
Somali constitution approved by president |
1979-10-01 |
Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president |
1979-10-15 |
Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees |
1979-10-26 |
Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May. |
1979-11-12 |
US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets |
1979-11-13 |
Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for US President |
1979-12-12 |
President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. |
1980-01-01 |
Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal |
1980-01-20 |
President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow |
1980-01-25 |
Bani Sadr elected president of Iran |
1980-01-28 |
US President Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls originally scheduled to expire in September 1981 |
1980-03-31 |
President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry |
1980-05-05 |
Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece. |
1980-05-07 |
Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried |
1980-05-18 |
Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru |
1980-06-23 |
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails; the Council was part of Botha's plan to effect broad ranging constitutional changes which would allow for a role for both Indian and Coloured people in parliament but which still excluded direct political representation for African people. |
1980-07-16 |
Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit |
1980-07-17 |
Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president |
1980-07-17 |
Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for US president |
1980-07-18 |
Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana |
1980-07-28 |
Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president |
1980-08-13 |
Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted |
1980-08-27 |
Chon Doo Hwan elected president of South Korea |
1980-09-30 |
Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein |
1980-11-04 |
Ronald Reagan (R) defeats incumbant US President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide |
1980-11-09 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran |
1980-11-14 |
Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral |
1980-11-25 |
Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees |
1980-12-16 |
President-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state |
1980-12-22 |
US President-elect Ronald Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) & James Watt (Interior) |
1980-12-31 |
Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns |
1981-01-17 |
Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege |
1981-01-20 |
Ronald Reagan inaugurated as 40th US President |
1981-03-20 |
Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years |
1981-05-21 |
Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France |
1981-06-22 |
Iran president Bani Sadr deposed |
1981-06-30 |
Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained |
1981-07-24 |
Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran |
1981-07-29 |
Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris |
1981-07-31 |
Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Association |
1981-08-03 |
13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Ronald Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated' |
1981-08-05 |
US President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers |
1981-08-06 |
Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron freed |
1981-08-28 |
John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan |
1981-09-01 |
Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees |
1981-09-09 |
Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League |
1981-10-02 |
Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran |
1981-10-07 |
Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt |
1981-10-08 |
President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral |
1981-10-13 |
Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt |
1981-11-16 |
President Reagan decides on a covert plan to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador |
1981-11-23 |
President Reagan vetoes House Joint Resolution 357 which called for further appropriations for fiscal year 1982 |
1981-12-11 |
Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees |
1981-12-22 |
Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president |
1982-01-26 |
Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland |
1982-01-27 |
Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland |
1982-01-27 |
Roberto S Cordova installed as president of Honduras |
1982-02-05 |
Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname |
1982-02-16 |
Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta |
1982-03-10 |
President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya |
1982-05-03 |
President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts |
1982-06-07 |
US President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II |
1982-06-08 |
US President Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament |
1982-06-09 |
General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala |
1982-06-17 |
US President Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech) |
1982-06-17 |
President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat |
1982-06-21 |
John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity |
1982-06-24 |
US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office |
1982-06-25 |
South African President P.W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control |
1982-07-01 |
General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina |
1982-07-04 |
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico |
1982-08-23 |
Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president |
1982-09-01 |
Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks |
1982-09-14 |
Bomb at Lebanese Phalange party HQ kills President-elect Bachir Gemayel and 26 others |
1982-09-23 |
Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon |
1982-10-05 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia |
1982-10-10 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia |
1982-10-14 |
President Reagan proclaims war against drugs |
1982-10-20 |
Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected |
1983-01-07 |
President Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala |
1983-01-21 |
President Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid |
1983-03-08 |
President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" |
1983-03-22 |
Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president |
1983-03-23 |
US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI) |
1983-04-14 |
President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue |
1983-04-20 |
President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security |
1983-06-16 |
USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
1983-08-08 |
Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt deposed as president of Guatemela |
1983-09-29 |
Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon |
1983-11-02 |
President Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday |
1983-11-11 |
President Reagan became 1st US president to address Japanese legislature |
1983-12-10 |
Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president |
1983-12-22 |
Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
1984-01-10 |
Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested |
1984-01-29 |
President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term |
1984-04-11 |
USSR party leader Chernenko elected president |
1984-04-26 |
President Reagan visits China |
1984-05-26 |
US President President Ronald Reagan rules out US military intervention in Iran-Iraq war |
1984-07-11 |
Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana |
1984-08-11 |
During radio voice test US President Reagan jokes he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" |
1984-08-19 |
Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for President |
1984-08-22 |
Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan & VP Bush |
1984-08-27 |
US President Ronald Reagan announces Teacher in Space project |
1984-09-26 |
President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa |
1984-11-06 |
President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) |
1984-11-14 |
Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city. |
1985-01-10 |
Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua |
1985-01-15 |
Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president |
1985-01-15 |
Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years |
1985-01-31 |
South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence |
1985-03-29 |
Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece |
1985-05-01 |
US President Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua |
1985-05-27 |
Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan |
1985-07-02 |
Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR |
1985-07-12 |
Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon |
1985-07-28 |
Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru |
1985-08-07 |
A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets with SA President P W Botha, following calls by the church for urgent discussions on the causes of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country |
1985-09-09 |
President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa |
1985-10-11 |
President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands |
1985-11-16 |
President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev |
1985-11-19 |
US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time |
1985-12-04 |
French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski |
1985-12-04 |
President Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser |
1985-12-27 |
Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi |
1986-01-07 |
US President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya |
1986-01-14 |
Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 |
1986-01-24 |
South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president |
1986-01-29 |
Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda |
1986-02-02 |
Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica |
1986-02-03 |
US President Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident |
1986-02-07 |
Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti |
1986-02-09 |
Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
1986-02-25 |
Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees |
1986-05-04 |
President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan |
1986-05-12 |
President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator |
1986-05-15 |
Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years |
1986-05-25 |
Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia |
1986-05-27 |
President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled |
1986-06-10 |
A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL |
1986-06-21 |
President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments |
1986-06-23 |
Tip O'Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House |
1986-06-24 |
In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence |
1986-07-03 |
President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty |
1986-08-15 |
President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger |
1986-08-28 |
Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege |
1986-10-01 |
President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta |
1986-11-03 |
Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique |
1986-11-06 |
President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill |
1986-11-13 |
US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran |
1986-11-20 |
Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees |
1986-11-25 |
Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal |
1986-12-11 |
A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League |
1987-01-02 |
Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis |
1987-01-17 |
US President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran |
1987-02-19 |
US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland |
1987-03-19 |
Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago |
1987-03-27 |
President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad |
1987-04-30 |
Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President |
1987-06-12 |
US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall |
1987-06-25 |
Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim |
1987-07-02 |
Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. |
1987-10-15 |
Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies |
1987-11-07 |
Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba |
1987-12-08 |
US President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles |
1987-12-16 |
Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea |
1987-12-30 |
Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe |
1988-01-17 |
Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti |
1988-02-14 |
Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
1988-03-09 |
President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp |
1988-05-08 |
Francois Mitterrand elected president of France |
1988-05-29 |
Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq dismisses government and disbands parliament |
1988-06-25 |
Iceland's President Vigdis Finnbogadóttir elected (90+%) |
1988-07-06 |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico |
1988-07-21 |
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president |
1988-07-29 |
Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989 |
1988-08-10 |
Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador |
1988-08-17 |
US Republicans nominate George W H Bush for President |
1988-08-17 |
Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. |
1988-08-19 |
Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as president of Burma |
1988-11-03 |
President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill |
1988-11-08 |
Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico |
1988-11-16 |
President Reagan and the First Lady participate in the official state arrival ceremony, meetings and a state dinner with Margaret Thatcher |
1988-11-16 |
President Reagan meets with Jerusalem's mayor Teddy Kollek |
1988-11-23 |
President Reagan announces that he is pocket-vetoing a bill designed to further restrict lobbying by former federal employees. |
1988-11-25 |
German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag. |
1988-12-06 |
Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela |
1989-01-04 |
VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president |
1989-01-19 |
President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon |
1989-01-20 |
George H W Bush inaugurated as 41st US President & Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President |
1989-02-02 |
NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president |
1989-02-03 |
Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head |
1989-03-09 |
US Senate rejects President Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary |
1989-05-11 |
President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama |
1989-05-16 |
Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing |
1989-05-25 |
Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union |
1989-07-05 |
South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela |
1989-07-08 |
Carlos Saul Menum becomes president of Argentina |
1989-07-11 |
President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game |
1989-08-06 |
Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia |
1989-08-14 |
President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns |
1989-08-15 |
Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa |
1989-08-19 |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland |
1989-09-20 |
FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa |
1989-10-15 |
South Africa President FW de Klerk frees ANC Founder Walter Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners |
1989-10-31 |
Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey |
1989-11-04 |
Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon |
1989-11-10 |
Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov resigns |
1989-11-16 |
South Africa president FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act |
1989-11-21 |
Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush |
1989-11-24 |
Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon |
1989-11-26 |
Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras |
1989-11-27 |
Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay |
1989-11-29 |
India president Rajiv Gandhi resigns |
1989-12-02 |
Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India |
1989-12-03 |
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over |
1989-12-10 |
President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns |
1989-12-17 |
Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello as president |
1989-12-24 |
Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe |
1989-12-29 |
Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
1990-02-10 |
South African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on Feb 11th |
1990-03-01 |
Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay |
1990-03-10 |
Lt Gen Avril resigns as president of Haiti |
1990-03-14 |
Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress |
1990-03-21 |
Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president |
1990-03-28 |
President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal |
1990-05-06 |
Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party |
1990-05-16 |
Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected |
1990-05-28 |
Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia |
1990-05-29 |
Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic |
1990-06-07 |
South Africa president F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency |
1990-06-25 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House |
1990-07-03 |
Liberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe offers to resign in response to rebel incursions in his country; he will later be kidnapped and executed |
1990-07-16 |
The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa |
1990-07-26 |
President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act |
1990-07-28 |
Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru |
1990-08-02 |
US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia |
1990-08-06 |
President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan |
1990-08-12 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories |
1990-08-16 |
South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto |
1990-08-22 |
President Bush calls up military reserves |
1990-09-05 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West |
1990-09-09 |
Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces |
1990-09-24 |
South African President F W de Klerk meets US President Bush in Washington DC |
1990-09-24 |
Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait; French President Mitterrand called the action a violation of international law; a U.S. warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah |
1990-09-29 |
"Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book |
1990-10-01 |
US President Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait |
1990-10-15 |
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1990-10-27 |
Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president. |
1990-11-07 |
Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland |
1990-11-15 |
US President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 |
1990-11-21 |
French President François Mitterrand voices support of a proposed UN resolution that would authorize the use of force in the Persian Gulf |
1990-11-30 |
US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein |
1990-12-13 |
South African President De Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid |
1990-12-16 |
Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti |
1990-12-22 |
Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president |
1991-01-06 |
Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala |
1991-01-14 |
Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala |
1991-01-27 |
Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU |
1991-02-01 |
President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws |
1991-02-07 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president |
1991-03-03 |
Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal |
1991-03-06 |
Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" |
1991-05-04 |
President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat |
1991-05-15 |
President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game |
1991-05-21 |
Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns |
1991-06-12 |
Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation |
1991-06-16 |
Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR |
1991-06-18 |
Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US |
1991-07-10 |
Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Federation |
1991-08-13 |
US Vice-President Dan Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers |
1991-08-16 |
President Bush declares recession is near an end |
1991-09-05 |
Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress |
1991-09-06 |
Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname |
1991-09-27 |
President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert |
1991-09-30 |
Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti |
1991-11-06 |
Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party |
1991-11-24 |
Rachmon Nabijev elected president of Tadzjikistan |
1991-12-01 |
Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan |
1991-12-25 |
Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech |
1992-01-01 |
Bush is 1st US president to address Australian Parliament |
1992-02-20 |
Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show |
1992-04-04 |
Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania |
1992-04-05 |
Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president |
1992-04-16 |
Afghan president Najibullah resigns |
1992-04-28 |
Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns |
1992-05-23 |
President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees |
1992-05-25 |
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy |
1992-06-08 |
Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria |
1992-06-28 |
Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan |
1992-06-30 |
Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines |
1992-06-30 |
South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar |
1992-07-01 |
Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria |
1992-07-05 |
Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador |
1992-07-08 |
Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria |
1992-07-20 |
Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. |
1992-07-27 |
Nelson Mandela says that a general strike will go ahead; the aim of the mass protest was the peaceful removal of President De Klerk from power, the immediate transfer of political power to the people and free and fair elections to a constituent assembly |
1992-09-29 |
Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor |
1992-11-03 |
Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R) |
1992-12-04 |
Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. |
1992-12-20 |
Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia |
1992-12-24 |
US President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair |
1993-01-07 |
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. |
1993-01-20 |
Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd US President |
1993-02-11 |
Janet Reno selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General |
1993-03-24 |
Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel |
1993-03-27 |
Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. |
1993-04-11 |
Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie |
1993-05-01 |
Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) |
1993-05-16 |
Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey |
1993-05-21 |
Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired |
1993-05-31 |
President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees |
1993-06-01 |
Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army |
1993-06-06 |
Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia |
1993-06-13 |
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran |
1993-06-26 |
The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait. |
1993-06-27 |
Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton |
1993-07-07 |
Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia |
1993-07-16 |
President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville |
1993-07-18 |
Afghan president Ishaq Khan & prime minister Nawaz Sharif resign |
1993-07-19 |
President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions |
1993-08-28 |
Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president |
1993-08-31 |
Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees |
1993-09-22 |
Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin |
1993-10-15 |
Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1993-10-16 |
General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president |
1993-11-13 |
Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president |
1993-11-16 |
Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum |
1993-11-30 |
President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill |
1993-12-05 |
Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela |
1993-12-07 |
Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast |
1993-12-11 |
Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
1994-01-03 |
Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, becomes effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994 |
1994-02-03 |
President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam |
1994-02-06 |
Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica |
1994-02-06 |
Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland |
1994-03-01 |
Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland |
1994-03-11 |
Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile |
1994-03-13 |
President Mangope of Bophuthatswana deposed |
1994-04-06 |
The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. |
1994-04-13 |
President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death |
1994-04-18 |
Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 4 days later |
1994-04-27 |
President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif |
1994-05-08 |
Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama |
1994-05-08 |
Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica |
1994-05-08 |
President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people |
1994-05-10 |
Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president |
1994-05-16 |
Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic |
1994-05-23 |
Roman Herzog elected president of Germany |
1994-06-19 |
Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia |
1994-07-01 |
Roman Herzog sworn in as German president |
1994-07-19 |
Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president |
1994-08-07 |
Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia |
1994-08-15 |
South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning |
1994-09-30 |
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi |
1994-10-01 |
South African President Nelson Mandela visits US |
1994-10-03 |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil |
1994-11-06 |
Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan |
1994-11-09 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka |
1994-11-27 |
Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay |
1994-12-01 |
Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico |
1995-01-01 |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil |
1995-01-14 |
Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico |
1995-01-31 |
President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. |
1995-03-01 |
Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay |
1995-03-08 |
Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece |
1995-03-09 |
President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns |
1995-04-23 |
President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City |
1995-07-09 |
Former South Africa President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation |
1995-11-29 |
US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973 |
1996-01-27 |
Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. |
1996-03-23 |
Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President. |
1996-04-30 |
US President Clinton approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years |
1996-05-06 |
Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of President Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war |
1996-05-28 |
U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. |
1996-06-11 |
Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president |
1996-07-07 |
Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa |
1996-08-06 |
US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya |
1996-08-26 |
President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy |
1996-09-24 |
U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. |
1996-09-27 |
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. |
1996-10-06 |
Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate |
1997-01-10 |
Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua |
1997-02-04 |
After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections. |
1997-03-04 |
President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research |
1997-03-14 |
President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery |
1997-04-30 |
President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College |
1997-05-20 |
US President Clinton signs an executive order barring new US investment in Burma (also known as Myanmar), effective May 21 and renewable annually |
1997-05-25 |
A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah. |
1997-05-30 |
Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs |
1997-07-25 |
K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office. |
1997-10-25 |
After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo. |
1997-12-16 |
President Clinton names his Labrador retriever "Buddy" |
1998-01-07 |
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton |
1998-01-17 |
President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones |
1998-01-26 |
President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" |
1998-05-22 |
Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton. |
1998-05-26 |
Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton |
1998-08-11 |
Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela |
1998-08-17 |
Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship. |
1998-09-11 |
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses. |
1998-11-12 |
Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. |
1998-11-16 |
Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton |
1998-11-19 |
Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. |
1998-12-06 |
Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela. |
1998-12-19 |
Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate. |
1999-01-07 |
Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate. |
1999-02-12 |
President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. |
1999-02-27 |
Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983. |
1999-03-23 |
Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. |
1999-04-09 |
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated. |
1999-04-12 |
US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. |
1999-05-02 |
Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. |
1999-05-07 |
In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup. |
1999-05-29 |
Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule. |
1999-06-16 |
Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa |
1999-06-25 |
In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998 |
1999-08-09 |
Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. |
1999-08-19 |
In Belgrade tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Slobodan Milošević as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
1999-12-28 |
Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan. |
1999-12-31 |
Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President. |
2000-01-13 |
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position |
2000-02-18 |
Stjepan Mesić becomes the second president of Croatia. |
2000-05-01 |
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion. |
2000-05-02 |
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. |
2000-06-13 |
President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
2000-07-02 |
Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. |
2000-08-09 |
South African President Thabo Mbeki unveils the Women's Monument commemorating the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle |
2000-10-06 |
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns. |
2000-10-26 |
Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires. |
2000-11-13 |
Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. |
2000-11-16 |
Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. |
2000-11-17 |
Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. |
2000-11-28 |
Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. |
2000-12-13 |
American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States. |
2001-01-16 |
Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. |
2001-01-16 |
US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War. |
2001-01-17 |
President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain. |
2001-01-20 |
President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in the EDSA II Revolution and succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. |
2001-01-29 |
Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. |
2001-04-01 |
Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. |
2001-04-30 |
US Vice-President Cheney calls fors increased domestic production of fossil fuels and increased usage of nuclear power to meet America's energy demand |
2001-05-17 |
President Bush calls for reduced regulations to encourage more oil, gas, and nuclear production |
2001-08-03 |
US President George Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001 |
2001-08-09 |
US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells. |
2001-09-20 |
In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror". |
2001-10-05 |
Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor. |
2001-10-08 |
U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. |
2001-11-13 |
War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. |
2001-11-13 |
US President Bush orders that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve be filled to capacity over the next few years |
2001-11-20 |
In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday. |
2001-12-20 |
Argentine economic crisis: President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa is forced out of office. |
2001-12-22 |
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. |
2002-01-02 |
Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly. |
2002-01-08 |
President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. |
2002-01-29 |
In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. |
2002-02-12 |
The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion. |
2002-04-11 |
An attempted coup d'état takes place in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez . |
2002-04-12 |
Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chávez. |
2002-04-13 |
Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office. |
2002-04-14 |
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military. |
2002-05-12 |
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. |
2002-05-26 |
Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia. |
2002-06-29 |
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure. |
2002-07-09 |
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. |
2002-07-14 |
French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations. |
2002-07-30 |
The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" is signed into law by President George W. Bush. |
2002-11-16 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people |
2003-05-01 |
2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California. |
2003-05-25 |
Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis. |
2003-10-18 |
Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. |
2003-11-22 |
In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation. |
2003-11-23 |
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections. |
2003-12-13 |
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn). |
2003-12-14 |
President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. |
2003-12-14 |
President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein. |
2003-12-22 |
The New York Knicks hire Isiah Thomas as President of Basketball Operations |
2004-01-01 |
In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. |
2004-01-06 |
Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece. |
2004-01-26 |
President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan. |
2004-02-26 |
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
2004-02-29 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as President of Haiti following popular rebel uprising. |
2004-03-01 |
Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq. |
2004-03-12 |
Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history. |
2004-03-19 |
Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. |
2004-04-06 |
Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment. |
2004-05-01 |
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin. |
2004-05-09 |
Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya. |
2004-05-14 |
The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. |
2004-06-06 |
Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. |
2004-07-17 |
Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against Aids |
2004-10-25 |
Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8. |
2005-02-23 |
Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are in attendance. |
2005-02-26 |
Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution. |
2005-04-06 |
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. |
2005-05-10 |
A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. |
2005-08-03 |
President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. |
2005-10-28 |
Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. |
2005-11-23 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country. |
2005-11-27 |
President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, was re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term. |
2005-12-15 |
Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF. |
2006-01-16 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. |
2006-01-22 |
Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. |
2006-02-24 |
President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue possible military coup. |
2006-03-01 |
Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time. |
2006-03-11 |
Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. |
2006-03-20 |
Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby. |
2006-04-11 |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium. |
2006-06-29 |
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. |
2006-11-05 |
Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982. |
2006-11-27 |
Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator. |
2006-12-15 |
B.B. King is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush |
2007-02-21 |
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. |
2007-04-04 |
15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President. |
2007-05-16 |
Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the 23rd President of France |
2007-06-12 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin |
2007-07-25 |
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president |
2007-09-12 |
Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder. |
2007-09-18 |
Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. |
2007-09-24 |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University. |
2007-10-02 |
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. |
2007-10-29 |
Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. |
2007-11-10 |
¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez. |
2007-11-25 |
The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania. |
2008-02-24 |
Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. |
2008-08-06 |
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'etat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi |
2008-08-18 |
President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned due to pressure from opposition. |
2008-08-27 |
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States |
2008-09-21 |
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa resigns from office, effective September 25. |
2008-10-03 |
The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush |
2008-11-04 |
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States |
2008-12-09 |
The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency |
2008-12-14 |
President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad. |
2009-01-20 |
Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president |
2009-01-20 |
Joe Biden assumes the office of the Vice President of the United States |
2009-03-04 |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. |
2009-04-07 |
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. |
2009-04-12 |
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue |
2009-08-04 |
Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally. |
2009-11-22 |
President Hugo Chavez states that Venezuela is in recession as the economy contracted 4.5% in the third quarter |
2010-01-28 |
Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh hanged: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed. |
2010-03-11 |
Sebastián Piñera become chilean president. |
2010-04-10 |
Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński. |
2010-06-16 |
Cam Neely is named President of his former team, the Boston Bruins |
2010-08-01 |
A 200x250 photo mosaic of President Corazon Aquino was unveiled near the Quirino Grandstand at the Luneta Park, Manila in commemoration of her first death anniversay and it has been submitted to the Guinness World Records to be certified as the largest photo mosaic in the world. |
2010-12-22 |
The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama. |
2011-01-14 |
Ben Ali, former Tunisian president, fled the country to Saudi Arabia after popular protests (dubbed as Jasmine Revolution) requesting his departure. |
2011-04-27 |
U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate |
2011-11-18 |
Former Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested and held at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City under charges of electoral sabotage |
2011-11-23 |
Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity. |
2012-01-14 |
Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote |
2012-02-12 |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote |
2012-02-17 |
The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal |
2012-02-21 |
Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi |
2012-03-06 |
Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75 |
2012-03-18 |
Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly |
2012-03-26 |
Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal |
2012-04-03 |
US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination |
2012-04-04 |
Boris Tadić, President of Serbia, resigns |
2012-04-07 |
Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi |
2012-04-12 |
Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president |
2012-05-06 |
Francois Hollande elected President of France |
2012-05-07 |
Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia |
2012-05-09 |
United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same sex marriage |
2012-05-20 |
Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia |
2012-06-24 |
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt |
2012-06-30 |
Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt |
2012-07-05 |
Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount following irregularities |
2012-07-22 |
Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India |
2012-07-24 |
John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills |
2012-09-06 |
Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President |
2012-09-25 |
Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands |
2012-10-08 |
Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term |
2012-11-06 |
Barack Obama re-elected as US President |
2012-11-24 |
Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone |
2012-12-01 |
Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico |
2012-12-02 |
Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia |
2012-12-09 |
Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud |
2012-12-19 |
Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation's first female president |
2013-01-21 |
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands' Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group |
2013-02-16 |
Anthony Carmona is elected President of Trinidad and Tobago |
2013-02-17 |
President Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian general election in a landslide victory |
2013-02-24 |
Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba |
2013-02-25 |
Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018 |
2013-03-05 |
Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chavez |
2013-03-14 |
Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China |
2013-04-08 |
Filip Vujanović's election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission |
2013-04-15 |
Nicolás Maduro is narrowly elected President of Venezuela |
2013-04-20 |
Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy |
2013-04-21 |
Horacio Cartes is elected President of Paraguay |
2013-04-23 |
A 1% flash crash hits the US stock market after a news agency was hacked and claimed injury to President Obama |
2013-05-10 |
Joe Sakic is hired by his former team, the Colorado Avalanche, as Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations |
2013-06-14 |
Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran |
2013-06-27 |
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia |
2013-07-01 |
Demonstrations occur across Egypt with 15 million people calling for the resignation of their President, Mohammed Morsi |
2013-07-02 |
16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi |
2013-07-03 |
Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, is deposed by the military with Adly Mansour appointed interim president |
2013-07-30 |
Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan |
2013-08-04 |
Hassan Rouhani is inaugurated as the President of Iran |
2013-08-12 |
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is elected President of Mali |
2013-10-07 |
Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia |
2013-11-17 |
Abdulla Yameen becomes the President of the Maldives |
2013-11-17 |
Giorgi Margvelashvili becomes the President of Georgia |
2013-12-15 |
Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile |
2014-02-21 |
US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama |
2014-02-22 |
Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from his position |
2014-03-18 |
Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks |
2014-03-29 |
Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia |
2014-04-03 |
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta |
2014-04-17 |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika wins a fourth term as President of Algeria |
2014-05-04 |
Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama |
2014-05-21 |
José Mário Vaz is elected President of Guinea-Bissau |
2014-05-25 |
Petro Poroshenk is elected President of the Ukraine |
2014-05-25 |
Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania |
2014-05-26 |
Narendra Modi becomes President of India |
2014-05-28 |
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt |
2014-06-15 |
Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia |
2014-06-23 |
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania |
2014-07-01 |
Martin Schulz is re-elected President of the European Parliament |
2014-07-02 |
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors |
2014-07-09 |
Joko Widodo is elected president of Indonesia |
2014-07-16 |
Bashar Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria |
2014-07-24 |
Fuad Masum is elected as the President of Iraq |
2014-07-24 |
Reuven Rivlin is sworn in as the President of Israel |
2014-09-29 |
Ashraf Ghani becomes President of Afghanistan |
2014-10-12 |
Evo Morales is re-elected President of Bolivia |
2014-10-20 |
Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia |
2014-10-26 |
Dilma Rousseff is re-elected President of Brazil |
2014-11-04 |
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities in case of a new rebel offensive in the regions |
2014-11-08 |
US President Obama authorises deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants |
2014-11-15 |
Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense |
2014-11-20 |
Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US will have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes |
2014-11-23 |
An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country |
2014-11-23 |
Republicans condemn US President Obama's use of executive powers to force through immigration reform |
2016-01-08 |
'Mission accomplished': Mexican President says 'El Chapo' caught |
2016-01-30 |
New York Times endorses Hillary Clinton for president |
2016-02-08 |
Haiti's President steps down, leaving no successor |
2016-02-21 |
Central African Republic elects former PM Touadera as president |
2016-03-09 |
Former WADA president rips Maria Sharapova: 'How stupid can you be?' |
2016-03-10 |
Brazil prosecutors request arrest of ex-President Lula |
2016-03-15 |
Former Brazil president Lula 'to become minister' |
2016-03-15 |
Myanmar parliament elects first civilian president in decades |
2016-04-12 |
Brazil Congressional committee recommends impeaching President Rousseff |
2016-04-15 |
NY Post endorses Donald Trump for president |
2016-04-25 |
President Obama defends controversial EU trade deal |
2016-05-04 |
Ted Cruz Ends His Campaign for President |
2016-05-09 |
Trump-like mayor favoured as Philippines votes for new president |
2016-05-18 |
Obama speaks to Philippines' president-elect, stresses human rights |
2016-05-20 |
New Taiwan President Omits One-China Policy in First Speech |
2016-05-20 |
Asia Pacific|Taiwan Installs 1st Woman President Amid Tension With China |
2016-05-20 |
New Taiwan president pledges peace, urges China to drop historical baggage |
2016-05-27 |
President Obama Visits Hiroshima |
2016-06-10 |
President Obama formally endorses Clinton for president |
2016-06-18 |
Putin Says Russia Will Work With Any US President |
2016-08-06 |
Brazil's interim president declares Olympic Games open |
2016-09-01 |
Mexico president says Trump policies pose threats to Mexico |
2016-09-05 |
Obama becomes first sitting president to visit Laos |
2016-09-17 |
Donald Trump admits President Obama was born in US |
2016-10-22 |
Philippine president says he won't sever ties with US |
2016-12-27 |
South Korean Ruling Party Splits Over Impeached President |
2017-01-26 |
Mexican president 'regrets and disapproves' Trump push for wall |
2017-01-26 |
President Donald Trump says he believes torture works |
2017-01-27 |
Mexican president cancels Trump summit |
2017-02-17 |
US Vice President Pence heads to Europe on reassurance tour |
2017-03-05 |
Helen M. Marshall, First Black Borough President of Queens, Dies at 87 |
2017-03-10 |
South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye |
2017-03-31 |
Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrested |
2017-04-08 |
President Trump launches military strike in Syria |
2017-04-17 |
Vice President Mike Pence makes surprise visit to Korean Demilitarized Zone |
2017-04-17 |
US Vice President Pence visits DMZ amid high tensions with North Korea |
2017-06-29 |
Celebration and protest as China president visits Hong Kong |
2018-02-10 |
North Korea's Kim invites South Korean president for summit: South Korea |
2018-02-15 |
South African President Zuma succumbs to pressure, resigns |
2018-03-09 |
Oil prices rise as US President Trump set to meet North Korea's Kim |
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President - Notable Birthdays
President - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1483-03-06 |
Francesco Guicciardini, Ital attorney/president of Romagna |
1592-11-05 |
Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672) |
1609-11-26 |
Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659) |
1630-01-11 |
John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684) |
1670-02-28 |
Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737) |
1673-05-29 |
Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council |
1723-02-05 |
John Witherspoon, Gifford Scotland, president of the College of New Jersey (signed Declaration of Independence) |
1732-02-22 |
George Washington, Westmoreland, Virginia, 1st American president (1789-97) |
1735-10-30 |
John Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Massachusetts, 2nd US President (1797-1801) |
1738-09-25 |
Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789) |
1743-04-13 |
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, (D-R) 3rd President of the United States (1801-09) (d. 1826) |
1751-03-16 |
James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17) |
1758-04-28 |
James Monroe, Monroe Hall Virginia, 5th US President (1817-25) |
1767-03-15 |
Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th US President (1829-37) |
1767-06-15 |
Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson (1828-37) (died 1828) |
1767-07-11 |
John Quincy Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Massachusetts, 6th President of the United States (D) (1825-1829) |
1773-02-09 |
William Henry Harrison, Charles City Virginia, 9th President of the United States (March 4-April 4, 1841) |
1774-06-21 |
Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25) |
1782-12-05 |
Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook New York, (D) 8th US president (1837-41) |
1784-11-24 |
Zachary Taylor, Barboursville Virginia, 12th President (Mar 5, 1849-July 9, 1850) |
1785-10-15 |
Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14) |
1786-09-29 |
Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843) |
1788-04-14 |
David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870) |
1790-06-13 |
Jose Antonio Peez, president of Venezuela |
1790-11-04 |
Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62) |
1790-11-12 |
Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler |
1791-04-23 |
James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61) |
1793-03-02 |
Sam[uel] Houston, 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) |
1794-02-21 |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36) |
1795-11-02 |
James Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1845-1849) |
1797-04-14 |
Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77) |
1797-04-18 |
Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France |
1798-01-20 |
Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858) |
1800-01-07 |
Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53) |
1800-07-19 |
Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864) |
1802-07-26 |
Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855) |
1802-09-19 |
Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary (1849) |
1804-07-10 |
Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879) |
1805-03-03 |
Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861) |
1806-03-21 |
Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72) |
1807-03-01 |
Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898) |
1808-06-03 |
Jefferson F Davis, Fairview Kentucky, President of Confederate States of America (1861-5) |
1809-02-12 |
Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th US President (1861-65) |
1809-03-15 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia |
1809-09-05 |
Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880) |
1811-02-15 |
Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74) |
1811-08-29 |
Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA |
1812-02-11 |
Alexander H. Stephens, US Confederate Vice President, died in 1883 |
1813-08-15 |
Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891) |
1814-04-03 |
Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1901) |
1819-09-17 |
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa) |
1822-04-27 |
Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio (R), 18th US president (1869-77) and Union general |
1822-10-04 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th US president (1877-81) |
1822-10-29 |
Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97) |
1822-12-05 |
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (d. 1907) |
1824-05-08 |
William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57) |
1826-07-24 |
Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70) |
1827-08-05 |
Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of Brazil (d.1892) |
1828-02-29 |
Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela |
1829-10-05 |
Chester A. Arthur, Fairfield Vermont, (Republican) 21st American President (1881-85) |
1830-09-15 |
Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico (1877-1911) |
1832-11-07 |
Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell |
1833-02-11 |
Melville W. Fuller, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1836-05-07 |
Joseph Garney Cannon, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1836-09-05 |
Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921) |
1837-03-18 |
Grover Cleveland, President Cleveland and President McKinley |
1837-03-28 |
Jacob Gallinger, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1837-9-24 |
Marcus Hanna, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1838-05-10 |
John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin (President Lincoln) |
1838-12-30 |
Emile Loubet, Arrival and Departure of President Loubet |
1838-12-31 |
Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906) |
1839-06-10 |
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912) |
1839-9-29 |
James K. Jones, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1841-01-30 |
Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899) |
1841-01-30 |
François Félix Faure, President Faure Shooting Pheasants |
1841-10-04 |
Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912) |
1841-11-06 |
Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931) |
1842-06-15 |
Daniel M. Ransdell, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1843-01-06 |
John C. Spooner, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1843-01-29 |
William McKinley, Niles Ohio, 25th US President (1897-1901), (d. 1901) |
1843-01-29 |
William McKinley, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1843-07-17 |
Conrad Diehl, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1844-06-03 |
Garret A. Hobart, President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff |
1844-10-05 |
Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934) |
1845-02-15 |
Elihu Root, President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy Game |
1845-04-19 |
John Dalzell, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1845-12-23 |
Gustave Ador, union president of Austria (1919) |
1846-03-10 |
Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln |
1847-06-08 |
Ida McKinley, President and Mrs. McKinley |
1847-10-02 |
Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president |
1847-10-23 |
Fanny Petersen, The President |
1847-11-25 |
George W. Anson, The President's Special |
1848-10-25 |
Karl Emil Franzos, The President |
1849-12-05 |
Samuel H. Ashbridge, President McKinley and Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia |
1850-04-15 |
John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president |
1850-05-01 |
Prince Arthur, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Decorating the Monument of Champlain and Receiving Addresses of Welcome from the Mayor of Quebec, the Governor General of Canada and Vice President Fairbanks, Representative of the United States |
1850-06-08 |
Axel Madsen, The President |
1850-10-05 |
Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910) |
1851-12-21 |
Thomas C. McRae, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1852-05-11 |
Charles W. Fairbanks, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Decorating the Monument of Champlain and Receiving Addresses of Welcome from the Mayor of Quebec, the Governor General of Canada and Vice President Fairbanks, Representative of the United States |
1852-07-12 |
Hipólito Yrigoyen, Buenos Aires, President of Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30) (d. 1933) |
1852-07-14 |
Presley M. Rixey, President McKinley |
1852-08-23 |
Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913) |
1853-04-04 |
Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln |
1854-01-14 |
Benjamin B. Odell Jr., Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1855-02-13 |
Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922) |
1855-04-18 |
Miles B. McSweeney, President Roosevelt Reviewing the Troops at Charleston Exposition |
1855-10-24 |
James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912) |
1856-12-28 |
[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, 28th (D) US President (1913-21), Nobel Peace Prize 1919 |
1857-01-02 |
Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) |
1858-08-01 |
Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937) |
1859-02-10 |
Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943) |
1859-09-20 |
Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator |
1860-01-17 |
Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949) |
1860-05-15 |
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of US President Woodrow Wilson |
1860-05-27 |
Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941) |
1860-08-20 |
Raymond Poincaré, France, president/PM (1912) |
1864-07-13 |
John Jacob Astor, President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff |
1865-01-28 |
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952) |
1865-03-01 |
Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java) |
1865-05-23 |
Epitácio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942) |
1865-11-02 |
Warren G. Harding, Blooming Grove Ohio, American President (1921-1923) |
1866-01-25 |
Emile Vandervelde, President (1900—1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister of 3 Belgian governments (d. 1938) |
1866-05-07 |
Cornelis J K van Aalst, president (Dutch Trading Company) |
1867-06-04 |
Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland (1944-46) |
1868-10-04 |
Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, president of Argentina (1922-28) |
1868-12-14 |
Louis L. Babcock, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1869-03-15 |
Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953) |
1869-03-22 |
Emilio Aguinaldo, 1st President of the Philippines (1899-1901) (d. 1964) |
1869-07-04 |
Karl Seitz, president of Austria |
1869-10-26 |
Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957) |
1869-11-24 |
António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951) |
1870-11-27 |
Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president Finland |
1870-12-14 |
Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50) |
1871-03-31 |
Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922) |
1872-07-04 |
Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Notch Vermont, (R) 30th US President (1923-29), (d. 1933) |
1872-10-15 |
Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president (d. 1956) |
1873-03-03 |
William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52) |
1873-04-24 |
Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president |
1873-05-23 |
Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism) |
1873-10-14 |
Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (d. 1954) |
1873-10-30 |
Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president (1911-13) |
1874-03-14 |
Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips |
1874-03-24 |
Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55) |
1874-08-10 |
Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st US President (1929-1933), (d. 1964) |
1874-11-27 |
Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President) |
1875-03-26 |
Syngman Rhee, P'yŏngsan Hwanghae Province, first President of South Korea (1948-60) |
1875-04-13 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, U.S. university president and politician (d. 1949) |
1875-05-23 |
Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966) |
1875-08-08 |
Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955) |
1876-03-01 |
Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (d. 1942) |
1876-06-14 |
Julius McVicker, The Phantom President |
1876-07-19 |
Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972) |
1876-08-29 |
Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949) |
1877-01-22 |
Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics |
1877-07-06 |
Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain (1931-36) |
1877-09-25 |
Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28) |
1877-11-03 |
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960) |
1877-11-17 |
Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943) |
1878-07-03 |
George M Cohan, Providence Rhode Island, American father of musical comedy (Phantom President, Give My Regards to Broadway) |
1878-08-19 |
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42) |
1878-09-09 |
Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961) |
1880-02-17 |
Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24) |
1880-06-06 |
William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state |
1880-10-22 |
Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39) |
1881-02-04 |
Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60) |
1881-02-27 |
Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild) |
1881-05-19 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938) |
1882-01-30 |
Franklin Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY, 32nd US President (1933-1945), (d. 1945) |
1882-03-04 |
Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941) |
1882-03-20 |
René Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58) |
1882-09-13 |
Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969) |
1882-10-14 |
Éamon de Valera, NY, Irish politician and patriot, President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59). Died 1975 |
1882-12-10 |
Betty Kirkeby, The President |
1883-04-19 |
Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer |
1883-05-31 |
Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942) |
1883-08-19 |
José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965) |
1884-01-31 |
Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963) |
1884-05-08 |
Harry Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953), (d. 1972) |
1884-05-28 |
Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48) |
1884-08-02 |
Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969) |
1884-08-27 |
Vincent Auriol, president of France (1947-53) |
1884-11-24 |
Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963) |
1884-12-03 |
Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963) |
1884-12-19 |
Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak president (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel) |
1885-01-16 |
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40) |
1885-02-26 |
Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969) |
1885-05-18 |
Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50) |
1887-04-13 |
Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995) |
1887-06-21 |
Olga Raphael-Linden, The President |
1887-09-10 |
Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy |
1887-09-15 |
Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955) |
1888-09-05 |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher |
1889-02-03 |
Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president |
1889-06-19 |
Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland) |
1890-05-19 |
Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vetnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69) |
1890-11-16 |
Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of Philippines (1949-53) Vigan Ilocos Sur (d.1956) |
1890-11-22 |
Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69), (d. 1970) |
1890-12-30 |
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973) |
1891-02-02 |
Antonio Segni, premier/president (Italy) |
1891-03-03 |
Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council |
1891-03-09 |
Jose Paciano Laurel y Garcia, Tanuan Batangas, 3rd Philippine president |
1891-08-29 |
Marquis James, Portrait of a President |
1891-10-24 |
Rafael L Trujillo Molina, president/dictator of Dom Rep (1930-61) |
1891-12-20 |
Margaret Suckley, Fala: The President's Dog |
1892-01-01 |
Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines |
1893-06-30 |
Walter Ulbricht, president German DR |
1894-04-12 |
Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general/president (1951-58) |
1894-05-13 |
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972) |
1894-08-10 |
Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980) |
1894-11-19 |
Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987) |
1894-12-05 |
Charles Robberts, Winburg district of the Orange Free State, The first State President of South Africa |
1895-10-03 |
Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP [OS] |
1895-11-29 |
William V S Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70) |
1896-05-28 |
Warren Giles, baseball's National League president |
1896-07-06 |
Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society) |
1896-09-25 |
Sandro Pertini, president Italy |
1896-11-04 |
Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971) |
1896-11-23 |
Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1946-53) |
1897-04-24 |
Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955) |
1897-08-26 |
Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990) |
1897-11-19 |
Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918) |
1898-04-12 |
Grantley H Adams, president of Barbados |
1898-09-19 |
Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71) |
1899-02-03 |
João Café Filho, Brazilian president (d.1970) |
1899-03-26 |
James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale) |
1899-07-01 |
Konstantinos Tsatsos Greek politician and president (1975-1980) |
1899-07-23 |
Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany |
1899-08-04 |
Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994) |
1899-11-15 |
Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969) |
1900-04-03 |
Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon |
1900-05-28 |
Owen Aisher, president (Marley) |
1900-09-03 |
Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland (1956-81) |
1900-09-29 |
Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983) |
1901-01-16 |
Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59) |
1901-02-20 |
Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54) |
1901-08-15 |
Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68) |
1901-11-08 |
Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president |
1902-06-07 |
Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000) |
1902-08-03 |
Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia (1957-87) |
1902-08-13 |
Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president (J Sansbury Pics) |
1902-09-05 |
Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president (20th Century Fox) |
1902-09-12 |
Juscelino Kubitschek, president Brazil (1955-60) |
1902-09-27 |
Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president (1946-52) |
1902-11-02 |
Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank) |
1903-03-19 |
Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party |
1903-05-21 |
Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina |
1903-06-26 |
Ashley Clarke, president (Venice in Peril Fund) |
1904-01-11 |
Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president (UN General Assembly) |
1904-05-30 |
Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60) |
1904-12-01 |
W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president |
1905-07-09 |
Clarence Campbell, Fleming Saskatchewan, Third NHL president (1946-77) |
1905-08-24 |
Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988) |
1905-12-04 |
Emilio Médici, president Brazil (1969-74) |
1906-04-22 |
Eric William Fenby, composer/president (Delius Society) |
1906-05-14 |
Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1964-94) |
1906-05-17 |
Eric Mensforth, president (Westland Aircraft) |
1906-09-17 |
Junius Richard Jayawardene, president (Sri Lanka, 1978-89) |
1907-03-08 |
Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician, President of Greece (d. 1998) |
1907-05-14 |
Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan) |
1907-05-14 |
Mohammad Ayub Khan, Britain Welcomes the President of Pakistan |
1907-08-31 |
Ramon Magsaysay, politician and 7th President of the Philippines (US Legion of Merit-1952) at Iba Philippines (d. 1957) |
1907-09-01 |
Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic |
1907-09-01 |
Walter Reuther, labor leader/president (UAW & CIO) |
1908-04-12 |
Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia |
1908-06-12 |
Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988) |
1908-07-26 |
Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73) |
1908-08-27 |
Lyndon B. Johnson, Stonewall Texas, (D) 36th US President (1963-1969), (d. 1973) |
1908-11-19 |
George Jenkins, All the President's Men |
1908-11-28 |
Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina (1958-62) |
1909-07-05 |
Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/18 NS] |
1909-07-05 |
Anna Rápolthy, Miss President |
1909-07-12 |
Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87) |
1909-07-18 |
Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS] |
1909-07-18 |
Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978) |
1909-08-10 |
Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire) |
1909-09-12 |
Donald MacDonald, O.C., LL.D. former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and politician (d.1986) |
1909-09-21 |
Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66) |
1910-03-04 |
Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist |
1910-04-11 |
Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal |
1910-04-20 |
Robert F. Wagner, President Kennedy's Birthday Salute |
1910-05-26 |
Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico |
1910-06-16 |
Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council) |
1910-08-12 |
Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970) |
1910-09-28 |
Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (1961-65) |
1910-10-11 |
Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President) |
1910-12-04 |
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India (1987-92) |
1911-01-06 |
Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70) |
1911-01-31 |
A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford) |
1911-02-06 |
Ronald Reagan, Tampico IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo) and 40th US President (R) (1981-89) |
1911-02-12 |
Sylvstre A Guzman Fernandez, president (Dominican Republic) |
1911-03-12 |
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico |
1911-05-11 |
Edgar Beck, president (John Mowlem) |
1911-05-23 |
Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society) |
1911-07-05 |
Georges Pompidou, Paris, President/Prime Minister of France (1962-74), (d. 1974) |
1911-07-14 |
J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church & Peace) |
1911-09-07 |
Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president |
1912-04-15 |
Kim II Sung, Eternal President ("The Great Leader") of North Korea (1945-94) |
1912-05-31 |
Henry Jackson, Bob Hope for President |
1912-06-03 |
Richard D'Aeth, president (Hughes Hall Cambridge) |
1912-07-01 |
Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier |
1912-07-01 |
David Brower, environmentalist/president (Sierra Club) |
1912-08-23 |
Lord Kissin, president (GPG) |
1912-10-07 |
Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002) |
1912-11-28 |
Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany) |
1913-01-09 |
Richard Nixon, Yorba Linda, California, 37th President (R) of the United States (1969-74) |
1913-01-10 |
Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89) |
1913-02-27 |
Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989) |
1913-03-30 |
Censu Tabone, President of Malta, (d. 2012) |
1913-05-13 |
Sanjiva Reddy, president (India) |
1913-05-13 |
William R Tolbert, president Liberia (1971-80) |
1913-05-19 |
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India |
1913-06-23 |
Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president (Antsa) |
1913-06-30 |
Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007) |
1913-07-14 |
Gerald R Ford, [Leslie King], Omaha Nebraska, 41st US VP (1973-74)/38th US President (R-1974-77), (d. 2006) |
1913-08-13 |
Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus |
1913-09-14 |
Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA |
1914-02-12 |
Nello Celio, Swiss president |
1914-04-25 |
Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela |
1914-06-30 |
Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001) |
1914-07-09 |
Willi Stoph, president German DR |
1914-07-30 |
Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999) |
1914-10-12 |
Walter Kohner, Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President |
1915-01-20 |
Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006) |
1915-01-31 |
John Profumo, president (Toynbee Hall) |
1915-03-20 |
Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000) |
1915-03-23 |
Louis Quinn, All the President's Men |
1915-05-06 |
Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President) |
1915-06-04 |
Modibo Keita, president of Mali (1960-68) |
1915-07-15 |
Alexander Durie, vice president (British AA) |
1915-10-07 |
Charles Templeton, The Kidnapping of the President |
1915-11-25 |
Augusto Pinochet, general/president (Chile) |
1916-01-12 |
A P[ieter] W Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa |
1916-03-16 |
Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers) |
1916-04-30 |
Robert Shaw, The American President |
1916-05-05 |
Zail Singh, President of India (d. 1994) |
1916-05-16 |
Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel) |
1916-08-15 |
Wilbert G. Nuttycombe, Kisses for My President |
1916-10-26 |
Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France (1981-95) |
1917-04-05 |
Isabel Halliburton, All the President's Men |
1917-04-13 |
Howard Keel, Ill, actor/singer and president of the Screen Actors Guild (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate) |
1917-05-03 |
Kiro Gligorov, Macedonia, President of the Republic of Macedonia 1991-1999 (d. 2012) |
1917-05-24 |
Theodore Hesburgh, Syracuse NY, president (Notre Dame) |
1917-07-23 |
Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man) |
1917-09-11 |
Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines President (1965-86) |
1917-12-13 |
Seymour Melman, President King |
1917-12-28 |
Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad & Tobago (1976-87) |
1918-01-10 |
Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008) |
1918-01-15 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971) |
1918-01-15 |
João Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999) |
1918-01-26 |
Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president (1967-90) |
1918-02-01 |
Maurice Laing, life president (John Laing) |
1918-03-28 |
Robert J. Serling, The President's Plane Is Missing |
1918-04-06 |
Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982) |
1918-04-18 |
Roger de Grey, president (Royal Academy) |
1918-06-15 |
N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad |
1918-06-17 |
Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party) |
1918-07-17 |
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003) |
1918-07-18 |
Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel (1993) |
1918-09-09 |
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Novara, Italy, politician (Italian President, 1992-1999), (d. 2012) |
1918-09-17 |
Chaim Herzog, Israeli president (1983-93), (d. 1997) |
1918-11-26 |
Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94) |
1918-12-25 |
Ahmed Ben Bella, Maghnia, Algeria, politician, first President of Algeria, (d. 2012) |
1919-05-15 |
Charles Palmer, cricketer (one Test 1955, later MCC president) |
1919-05-30 |
René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969) |
1919-06-17 |
Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale) |
1919-07-08 |
Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president |
1919-07-16 |
Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006) |
1920-01-08 |
Henry Calvert, All the President's Men |
1920-01-27 |
Joshua Shelley, All the President's Men |
1920-02-24 |
Don L. Cash, All the President's Men |
1920-04-15 |
Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94) |
1920-06-02 |
Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003) |
1920-06-16 |
José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004) |
1920-09-27 |
J K Gill, president (Saatchi & Saatchi) |
1920-10-20 |
Janet Jagan, Guyana's Woman President |
1920-10-27 |
K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India |
1920-12-09 |
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic |
1920-12-13 |
Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos (Pathet Lao) (1991-92) |
1921-03-09 |
Richard Kleiner, Linda Lovelace for President |
1921-04-13 |
Florence Pepper, All the President's Men |
1921-05-01 |
Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee) |
1921-06-08 |
Suharto, general/president Indonesia (1967- ) |
1921-07-01 |
Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana (Bechuanaland) |
1921-07-01 |
Sir Seretse Khama, Serowe, in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswanan statesman and president |
1921-08-12 |
Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion) |
1921-09-07 |
Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 - 2000) |
1921-09-17 |
Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia (1986-90) |
1922-01-09 |
Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984) |
1922-01-17 |
Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico |
1922-03-12 |
Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO) |
1922-03-20 |
Arnold Burgen, college president (Academia Europaea) |
1922-03-24 |
Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women) |
1922-04-01 |
William Manchester, Attleboro Mass, historian (Death of a President) |
1922-09-17 |
Agostinho Neto, poet/president Angola [or Dec 27] |
1922-09-25 |
Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992) |
1922-10-27 |
Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela (1974-79/89-94) |
1922-10-31 |
Norodom Sihanouk, King/President/Premier of Cambodia (My War with the CIA), (d. 2012) |
1922-11-18 |
Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63) |
1922-11-23 |
Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia |
1923-01-15 |
Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- ) |
1923-02-27 |
Philip Geyelin, All the President's Men |
1923-03-06 |
Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president (Wolfson at Oxford) |
1923-04-05 |
Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam President (1965-75) |
1923-05-10 |
Heydar Aliyev, Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic (d. 2003) |
1923-08-05 |
Devan Nair, President of Singapore |
1923-11-25 |
Mauno Koivisto, president of Finland (1982-94) |
1923-12-23 |
Lucas M Mangope, 1st president of Bophuthatswana (1977-94) |
1923-9-23 |
Wallace Westfeldt, President F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi |
1924-02-04 |
Karen Hale Wookey, All the President's Men |
1924-02-21 |
Robert Mugabe, president (Zimbabwe, 1988- ) |
1924-04-28 |
Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president (Zambia, 1964-91) |
1924-05-16 |
Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president (Gambia, 1970-94) |
1924-06-12 |
George H. W. Bush, Milton MA, 43 US Vice President (R, 1981-89) and 41st US President (R, 1989-93) |
1924-06-15 |
Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005) |
1924-06-17 |
Henk J Hoekstra, president (Dutch Communist Party) |
1924-06-24 |
Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka (1989-93) |
1924-07-03 |
S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore |
1924-08-15 |
Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president |
1924-08-23 |
Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia |
1924-09-02 |
Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya |
1924-10-01 |
Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia, 39th US President (D) (1977-81) |
1924-11-01 |
Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey |
1924-12-07 |
Mário Soares, President of Portugal |
1924-12-27 |
Mokta Ould Daddah, president Mauritania (1961-78) |
1924-12-28 |
Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005) |
1925-02-17 |
Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain) |
1925-05-05 |
Mykola Plaviuk, Rusiv, Poland, Ukranian president (1978-81), (d. 2012) |
1925-05-08 |
Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania (1985- ) |
1925-09-16 |
Charles Haughey, Irish president (1979-81, 82, 87-92) |
1925-11-21 |
Alan Shayne, All the President's Men |
1925-11-25 |
Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador |
1925-12-03 |
Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate |
1925-12-05 |
Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1967..79) |
1926-01-06 |
Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate |
1926-05-10 |
Duncan Watson, president (World Blind Union) |
1926-07-11 |
Ralph D Abernathy, US, president (SCLC) |
1926-07-26 |
Don Carter, bowling great (1st PBA president) |
1926-08-13 |
Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president (1959-2008) |
1926-09-01 |
Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh |
1926-11-03 |
Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania |
1927-01-26 |
Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras (1986-90) |
1927-03-12 |
Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina) |
1927-06-08 |
Dame Anne Warburton, President (Lucy Cavendish College-Cambridge_ |
1927-07-06 |
Pat Paulsen, Pat Paulsen for President |
1927-07-16 |
John Warr, England, cricket bowler (avg 281)/president (MCC) |
1927-08-21 |
Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
1927-08-23 |
Houari Boumedienne, president of Algeria (1965-78) |
1927-10-25 |
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay |
1927-12-14 |
Fritz Roland, The Making of a President: 1964 |
1927-12-20 |
Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea |
1927-12-30 |
M Lawrence Antouin, college president (Emeritis) |
1928-01-05 |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan |
1928-04-07 |
Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute) |
1928-05-04 |
Hosni Mubarak, Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt, Egyptian president (1981-2011) |
1928-05-10 |
Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president |
1928-05-13 |
Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua |
1928-07-05 |
Robert L. Wolfe, All the President's Men |
1928-09-03 |
Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission(d. 2007) |
1928-10-21 |
Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA (Angola) |
1929-02-13 |
Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama |
1929-03-09 |
Hugh Desmond Hoyte, president (Guyana, 1985-92) |
1929-04-05 |
Bryan Clark, All the President's Men |
1929-05-06 |
Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology) |
1929-05-12 |
Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia |
1929-06-26 |
Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy (1985- ) |
1929-08-13 |
Pat Harrington Jr., The President's Analyst |
1929-10-18 |
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua (1990- ) |
1929-11-09 |
Severn Darden, actor (Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th) |
1929-11-16 |
Alfred Wertheimer, The Making of the President 1960 |
1929-11-18 |
John McMartin, All the President's Men |
1929-12-28 |
Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president |
1930-01-01 |
Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier/president (Sudan) |
1930-01-24 |
Jacques Lowe, The Making of the President 1960 |
1930-02-01 |
Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh |
1930-03-03 |
Ion Iliescu, President of Romania |
1930-03-22 |
Derek Bok, college president (Harvard) |
1930-04-12 |
Uwe Kitzinger, President (Templeton College, Oxford) |
1930-04-15 |
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland |
1930-05-13 |
Vernon Shaw, former president of Dominica |
1930-06-28 |
Itamar Franco, President of Brazil |
1930-07-02 |
Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina (1989- ) |
1930-08-05 |
Michal Kováč, President of Slovakia |
1930-08-08 |
Joan Mondale, wife of US vice-president Walter Mondale (1977-81) |
1930-10-06 |
Hafez al Assad, president (Syria) |
1930-10-14 |
Joseph-Desire Kuku NWZA Mobutu Sese Seko, President Zaire (1965-97) |
1931-02-01 |
Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR |
1931-02-04 |
Isabel Peron, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina |
1931-02-28 |
Iajuddin Ahmed, Bikrampur, British Raj, President (Bangladesh, 2002-2009), (d. 2012) |
1931-03-07 |
Mady Mesplé, The American President |
1931-05-12 |
Johan Fleerackers, Flemish vice-president of Dutch One |
1931-05-21 |
George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-93) |
1931-06-03 |
Robert G. Kane, Kisses for My President |
1931-06-18 |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002 |
1931-06-21 |
Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV) |
1931-06-22 |
Hennadiy Udovenko, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, politician and diplomat (UN General Assembly President, 1997-8), (d. 2013) |
1931-07-08 |
Roone Arledge, New York City New York, American President of ABC Sports (Monday Night Football) |
1931-10-15 |
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India |
1931-11-15 |
Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya |
1931-9-09 |
Robert Krume, All the President's Men |
1932-02-08 |
Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA) |
1932-02-16 |
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone |
1932-03-18 |
F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk, president South Africa (1989-94) |
1932-04-10 |
Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts) |
1932-06-29 |
Nate Esformes, All the President's Men |
1932-08-23 |
Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978) |
1932-11-02 |
Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti (1986-88) |
1932-11-04 |
Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004) |
1932-12-04 |
Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea (1988-93) |
1932-12-12 |
Viktor Sukhodrev, JFK: A President Betrayed |
1933-01-25 |
Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (1986-92) |
1933-02-13 |
Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (1982- ) |
1933-03-22 |
Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran |
1933-06-06 |
George Gaines, All the President's Men |
1933-09-29 |
Samora Machel, president Mozambique (1975-86) |
1934-01-04 |
Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia |
1934-01-06 |
Tassos Papadopoulos, president of the Republic of Cyprus |
1934-02-07 |
Eddie Fenech Adami, President of Malta |
1934-02-24 |
Bingu wa Mutharika, Thyolo, Nyasaland (Malawi), Malawi President (2004-2012), (d. 2012) |
1934-03-22 |
Leslie Turnberg, president (Royal College of Physicians) |
1934-04-24 |
Ron Menchine, All the President's Men |
1934-07-15 |
Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer's Union) |
1934-10-19 |
Jakubu Gowon, army staff chief/president of Nigeria (1966-75) |
1934-12-12 |
Miguel de la Madrid, Colima Mexico, President of Mexico (1982-1988), (d. 2012) |
1934-12-24 |
Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia. |
1935-01-25 |
António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal |
1935-01-27 |
Gillian Beer, professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge) |
1935-03-03 |
Zhelyu Zhelev, Veselinovo, Shumen Province, Bulgarian President (1990-97) |
1935-03-10 |
Ivan Calin, Ribneta, Moldova, President and Prime Minister 1980-1990 (d. 2012) |
1935-03-26 |
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority |
1935-09-07 |
Abdou Diouf, president of Senegal (1981- ) |
1935-10-15 |
Barry McGuire, The President's Analyst |
1935-11-16 |
France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles (1977- ) |
1935-12-26 |
Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Pya Togo, General and President of Togo (1967 - 2005) |
1935-12-30 |
Omar [Albert B] Bongo, president of Gabon (1967- ) |
1936-01-06 |
Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, president of Uruguay (1985-90, 95- ) |
1936-01-22 |
Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002) |
1936-02-18 |
Kathryn Ish, The American President |
1936-03-05 |
Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003) |
1936-03-22 |
Philip Ely, president (British Law Society) |
1936-04-01 |
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, president of the Confederation in 1989 and 1996 (d. 1998) |
1936-05-12 |
Guillermo Endara, President of Panama |
1936-05-27 |
Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party |
1936-06-18 |
R Ronald Venetian, [Vene], president Suriname (1991- ) |
1936-06-25 |
Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia |
1936-09-03 |
Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia (1987- ) |
1936-09-17 |
Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president (Law Society) |
1936-10-19 |
Johnetta Betsch Cole, educator/president (Spellman College)/(Sen-D-KY) |
1936-10-22 |
Lauri Väärä, Goodbye, Mr. President |
1936-10-26 |
Gene Lindsey, All the President's Men |
1936-11-04 |
Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar |
1937-01-25 |
Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic |
1937-01-26 |
Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president (Sierra Leone) |
1937-02-23 |
David Ward, president (Law Society) |
1937-03-02 |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria |
1937-03-05 |
Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria |
1937-03-08 |
Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94) |
1937-03-19 |
Egon Krenz, President of East Germany |
1937-04-05 |
Colin Powell, Bronx NY, general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs) |
1937-04-19 |
Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines |
1937-04-28 |
Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, President of Iraq (1979-2003) |
1937-06-23 |
Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland |
1937-07-10 |
Sandy Stewart, Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President) |
1937-09-15 |
Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina |
1937-12-01 |
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia |
1938-01-30 |
Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan |
1938-02-24 |
Kathleen Richardson, president (Methodist Conference) |
1938-03-02 |
Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile |
1938-03-27 |
A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists) |
1938-07-28 |
Alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru (1990- ) |
1938-10-29 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia |
1939-03-31 |
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993) |
1939-06-06 |
Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president (Childrens Defense Fund) |
1939-06-22 |
Heikki Sarmanto, Goodbye, Mr. President |
1939-08-21 |
Festus Mogae, president of Botswana |
1939-09-18 |
Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal |
1939-09-25 |
Leon Britain, British politician, vice president (Commission of European Communities) |
1939-10-22 |
Joaquim Chissano, president of Mozambique (1986- ) |
1939-12-29 |
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives (1978- ) |
1940-02-19 |
Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006) |
1940-05-29 |
Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan |
1940-07-06 |
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan |
1940-07-21 |
Penny Fuller, All the President's Men |
1940-08-04 |
Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia |
1940-08-06 |
Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, President of Dagestan |
1940-11-06 |
Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service |
1941-01-30 |
Dick Cheney, Lincoln, Nebraska, 46th US Vice President |
1941-03-27 |
Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia |
1941-05-03 |
Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president |
1941-06-19 |
Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President |
1941-08-17 |
Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria (1985- ) |
1941-09-13 |
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey |
1941-10-05 |
Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina |
1941-9-30 |
Paul Bremer, Behind Bars/John Edwards, President?/The Fence |
1942-05-02 |
Jacques Rogge, Belgian International Olympic Committee president |
1942-06-18 |
Thabo Mbeki, Idutywa, Transkei, South Africa, former President of South Africa |
1942-06-18 |
Thabo M Mbeki, South African economist/1st vice-president (1994- ) |
1942-07-02 |
Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president |
1942-11-20 |
Joseph biden Jr, Scranton Pennsylvania, 47th US Vice President |
1942-12-09 |
Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of President 1968) |
1942-12-21 |
Hu Jintao, Chinese president |
1942-12-26 |
Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, Guatemalan president |
1942-9-25 |
Carol Marney, They've Killed President Lincoln! |
1943-01-17 |
René Préval, President of Haiti |
1943-02-03 |
Laila Räikkä, Goodbye, Mr. President |
1943-02-04 |
Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira |
1943-02-22 |
Horst Köhler, President of Germany |
1943-03-26 |
Bob Woodward, Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' |
1943-04-30 |
Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991-2001) |
1943-05-14 |
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland |
1943-07-22 |
Yoran Ben Ami, Israel, producer/president (Triumph Pictures) |
1943-08-11 |
Pervaiz Musharaf, Delhi India, General and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (2001-2008) |
1943-09-29 |
Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran |
1943-12-24 |
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland |
1943-12-24 |
Tarja Halonen, Madam President |
1943-9-25 |
Robert Walden, All the President's Men |
1944-01-29 |
Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda |
1944-02-16 |
António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde |
1944-04-03 |
Stephen C. Bradbury, Vote and Die: Liszt for President |
1944-04-15 |
Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), (d. 1996) |
1944-05-20 |
Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president) |
1944-06-16 |
Anthony Mannino, All the President's Men |
1944-07-21 |
John Atta Mills, Tarkwa, Gold Coast (Ghana), President of Ghana (2009-2012), (d. 2012) |
1944-10-15 |
Sali Berisha, President of Albania |
1944-11-01 |
Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia |
1944-12-02 |
Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006) |
1945-01-09 |
Frank J Biondi Jr, president (HBO) |
1945-03-09 |
Hannu Lauri, Goodbye, Mr. President |
1945-03-10 |
Elizabeth Brumfiel, [Elizabeth Stern], American feminist archaeologist, former president of the American Anthropological Association |
1945-03-31 |
Valerie Curtin, All the President's Men |
1945-04-13 |
Gary Haynes, The President's Plane Is Missing |
1945-04-22 |
Alan Dukes, Irish president (Fine Gael |
1945-05-14 |
Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa |
1945-06-29 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga, first female President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005) |
1945-08-25 |
John D. Arras, President Bioethical Commission |
1945-10-17 |
Graça Machel, Comrade President |
1945-10-19 |
Patricia Ireland, feminist/president (National Organization of Women) |
1945-10-27 |
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil |
1945-11-11 |
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984-90) |
1946-02-02 |
Alpha Oumar Konaré, ex-president of Mali |
1946-02-14 |
Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003) |
1946-03-28 |
Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru |
1946-04-03 |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president (Mexico, 1988-94) |
1946-06-20 |
Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor |
1946-07-06 |
George W. Bush Jr, New Haven, Connecticut, 43rd President of the United States (2001-09) and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX) |
1946-08-19 |
Bill Clinton [William Jefferson], Hope Arkansas, 42nd United States President (Democrat, 1993-01) |
1946-09-01 |
Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea |
1946-12-14 |
Michael Ovitz, president (Walt Disney Co) |
1947-01-23 |
Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia |
1947-02-04 |
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle, Indianapolis Indiana, USA (Sen-R-Ind, 44th Vice President 1989-93) |
1947-03-27 |
Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters) |
1947-03-31 |
Caesar Gaviria Trujillo, president (Colombia, 1990-94) |
1947-04-05 |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines (2001-2010) in San Juan Philippines |
1947-04-24 |
Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parliament |
1947-06-21 |
Meredith Baxter, All the President's Men |
1947-06-22 |
Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana |
1947-07-26 |
Alejandra Da Passano, Mr. President |
1947-11-22 |
Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador (1989-94) |
1948-01-28 |
Charles Taylor, President of Liberia |
1948-02-04 |
Frank Wills, All the President's Men |
1948-03-28 |
Jamie Smith-Jackson, All the President's Men |
1948-06-20 |
Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru |
1948-08-10 |
Tom Dyar, Vote and Die: Liszt for President |
1948-08-19 |
Tipper Gore, wife of vice president Al Gore (1993-01) |
1948-10-11 |
Molly-Ann Leikin, All the Vice President's Men |
1948-10-20 |
Jeff MacKay, All the President's Men |
1948-10-22 |
Lynette Fromme, American who attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford |
1948-11-12 |
Hassan Rouhani, President Rouhani/Pope Francis/The Smartest Dog in the World |
1948-12-01 |
Wendell Wright, All the President's Men |
1949-04-06 |
Mary Maples Dunn, college president (Smith College) |
1949-06-18 |
Lech Kaczyński, Polish president, 2005-2010 |
1949-07-29 |
Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93) |
1949-08-01 |
Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan |
1949-08-12 |
Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil (1990-92) |
1949-12-26 |
José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
1950-01-20 |
Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger |
1950-02-25 |
Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina |
1950-03-14 |
Michael Ford, son of US President Gerald & Betty Ford |
1950-03-18 |
Stanley Bennett Clay, All the President's Men |
1950-04-20 |
Itumeleng J Mosala, S Afr president (Azanian People's Org) |
1950-07-13 |
Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) |
1950-08-08 |
Mutulu Skakur, Letter to the President |
1951-02-09 |
Penny Peyser, All the President's Men |
1951-05-06 |
Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990) |
1951-05-29 |
Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation |
1951-06-27 |
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland |
1951-07-03 |
Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life |
1951-08-23 |
Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004) |
1951-09-29 |
Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile |
1951-10-23 |
Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo |
1951-11-04 |
Traian Băsescu, President of Romania |
1951-12-27 |
Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico |
1952-02-14 |
Nancy Keenan, current NARAL president |
1952-12-07 |
Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival |
1953-02-02 |
James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president (NACTU) |
1953-07-15 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti (1991, 1994- ) |
1953-12-26 |
Leonel Fernández, Dominican politician and current President of the Dominican Republic |
1954-02-23 |
Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine |
1954-04-27 |
Erkki Saarainen, Goodbye, Mr. President |
1954-07-28 |
Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, (d. 2013) |
1954-08-30 |
Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus |
1954-11-15 |
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Białogard Poland, politician and President of Poland (1995-2005) |
1955-01-28 |
Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, President of France (2007-) |
1955-03-22 |
Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia |
1955-05-29 |
John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded President Reagan (1981) |
1956-03-23 |
José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission |
1956-06-25 |
Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004) |
1956-10-11 |
Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay |
1956-10-28 |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Aradan, Iran, President of Iran (2005-) |
1957-06-28 |
Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria |
1957-07-06 |
Susan Ford, The President's Book of Secrets |
1957-07-25 |
Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother |
1957-12-24 |
Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan |
1958-01-07 |
Peter R Mokaba, president (South African Youth Congress) |
1958-01-15 |
Boris Tadić, President of Serbia |
1958-03-11 |
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq |
1958-06-05 |
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros |
1958-06-07 |
Markku Nieminen, Goodbye, Mr. President |
1959-01-01 |
Azali Assoumani, Comorian president |
1959-10-26 |
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia |
1959-12-06 |
Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo |
1961-03-23 |
Mikheil Gomiashvili, The President |
1961-07-14 |
Mary Margaret Patts, Soup for President |
1961-08-04 |
Barack Obama, Honolulu Hawaii,44th United States President (Democrat) and first African—American president |
1961-12-24 |
Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Republic |
1962-06-22 |
Ardalan Shoja-Kaveh, Mr. President |
1962-08-18 |
Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico |
1962-10-12 |
Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian President |
1962-12-15 |
Yeong-jin Jo, The President's Barber |
1962-9-13 |
Gia Ciambotti, Jefferson Davis: An American President |
1963-07-18 |
Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama |
1963-08-07 |
Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy (lives only 3 days) |
1965-09-11 |
Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria |
1965-09-14 |
Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia |
1966-12-04 |
Suzanne Malveaux, CNN Breaking News: Revolution in Egypt - President Mubarak Steps Down |
1967-02-25 |
Jonathan Freedland, President Hollywood |
1967-05-17 |
Mohamed Nasheed, The Island President |
1967-12-21 |
Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia |
1968-02-05 |
Roberto Alomar, President Jimmy |
1969-07-28 |
Dana White, UFC President |
1969-08-10 |
Pab Sungenis, America's Next President |
1971-06-16 |
Andre President, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles) |
1971-12-28 |
Sharmila Ariathurai, Letter to the President |
1971-9-23 |
Rob Klein, The American President |
1972-06-20 |
Saad Abedine, CNN Breaking News: Revolution in Egypt - President Mubarak Steps Down |
1972-12-11 |
Trinh T. Banh, Letter to the President |
1974-01-23 |
Norah O'Donnell, Vice President Biden/Inside the Air War/The New Burma |
1975-04-27 |
Andre Gower, actor (Baby Makes 5, Fathers & Sons, Mr President) |
1976-10-05 |
Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President |
1979-01-29 |
Kevin Jakubowski, Assassination of a High School President |
1980-02-27 |
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton and Hillary Clinton |
1980-07-21 |
Damir Geljo, Slaughter Nick for President |
1981-11-25 |
Barbara and Jenna Bush, twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush |
1982-01-25 |
Shawna Waldron, The American President |
1982-04-10 |
Carlos J. Ramsey, Vote and Die: Liszt for President |
1982-9-29 |
Diego Kontarovsky, The Day the President Moved Thanksgiving |
1984-08-26 |
Patrick Taylor, Assassination of a High School President |
1985-08-03 |
Tanya Fischer, Assassination of a High School President |
1985-11-21 |
Hyung-ok Noh, The President's Barber |
1985-12-19 |
Fabrizio Nucci, Goodbye Mr. President |
1987-11-15 |
Jeff Baustian, Class President |
1989-9-12 |
Ricky Baustian, Class President |
1992-10-16 |
Conchinha Sacchetti, The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States |
1998-07-04 |
Malia Obama, The 44th President |
President - Notable Weddings
President - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1759-01-06 |
US 1st President George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis at White House Plantation |
1764-10-25 |
2nd American President John Adams (28) weds Abigail Smith (19) in Weymouth, Massachusetts (marriage lasts 54 years) |
1794-09-15 |
4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia |
1795-11-25 |
US President William Henry Harrison (22) weds Anna Symmes (20) in North Bend, Ohio |
1797-06-26 |
US President John Quincy Adams (29) weds Louisa Johnson (22) at All Hallows Barking parish in London |
1807-02-21 |
US President Martin Van Buren (24) weds highschool sweetheart Hannah Hoes (23) in Catskill, New York |
1810-06-21 |
US President Zachary Taylor (25) weds Margaret Smith near Louisville, Kentucky |
1811-01-08 |
US Vice President John C. Calhoun (28) weds Floride Bonneau (19) |
1813-03-29 |
John Tyler (23) later 10th US President, marries 1st wife Letitia Christian Tyler (22) |
1820-03-08 |
5th US President James Monroe's daughter Maria 1st child of a President to marry in the White House |
1824-01-01 |
US President James Knox Polk (28) weds Sarah Childress (20) in Murfreesboro |
1826-02-05 |
US president Millard Fillmore (26) weds Abigail Powers (27) |
1827-05-17 |
US President Andrew Johnson (18) weds Eliza McCardle (16) in Warrenton, Tennessee |
1828-02-25 |
6th US President John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House |
1834-11-19 |
US President Franklin Pierce (30) weds Jane Pierce (28) in Amherst, New Hampshire |
1842-01-31 |
10th US President John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House |
1842-11-04 |
U.S. first lady Mary Todd Lincoln (23) weds US president Abraham Lincoln (33) in Springfield, Illinois |
1844-06-26 |
10th US President John Tyler marries 2nd wife Julia Gardiner in NYC, 1st president to marry while in office |
1848-08-22 |
Soldier and later US President Ulysses Grant (26) marries Julia Dent |
1852-12-30 |
Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21) |
1853-01-30 |
Emperor and French President Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo, Countess of Teba |
1853-10-20 |
23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21) |
1858-02-10 |
US president Millard Fillmore (58) weds Caroline Carmichael (43) in Albany, New York |
1858-11-11 |
20th US President James Garfield (26) weds Lucretia Rudolph (26) in Hiram, Ohio |
1859-10-25 |
US President Chester A Arthur (30) weds Ellen Herndon (22) at Calvary Episcopal Church in NYC, New York |
1871-01-25 |
US President William McKinley (27) weds Ida Saxton (23) at the First Presbyterian Church in Canton |
1880-10-27 |
Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday |
1885-06-24 |
28th US President Woodrow Wilson (28) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Ellen Louise Axson (25) in Savannah, Georgia |
1886-06-02 |
22nd and 24th US President Grover Cleveland (49) weds Frances Folsom (21) in the Blue Room at the White House |
1886-06-19 |
US President William Taft (28) weds Helen Herron (25) in Cincinnati, Ohio |
1886-12-02 |
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt (28) weds second wife Edith Kermit Carow (25) in London |
1891-07-08 |
Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio |
1891-07-08 |
US President Warren G. Harding (25) weds publisher Florence Kling DeWolfe (30) in Marion, Ohio |
1896-01-01 |
1st Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo (26) weds first wife Hilaria del Rosario |
1896-04-06 |
23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (63) weds Mary Scott (37) at St Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City |
1899-02-10 |
Future US President Herbert Hoover (24) marries college sweetheart Lou Henry (24) in Monterey California |
1905-03-17 |
Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New York, & given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt |
1905-10-04 |
30th US President Calvin Coolidge (33) weds Grace Anna Goodhue (26) in Burlington, Vermont |
1906-02-17 |
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House |
1913-11-25 |
28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in The White House |
1914-05-07 |
28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in The White House |
1915-12-10 |
28th US President Woodrow Wilson marries 2nd wife Edith Galt, a descendant of native American Pocahontas |
1915-12-18 |
US President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt |
1918-12-17 |
Philippine Senator (and later 2nd President) Manuel L. Quezon (40) weds first cousin Aurora Aragon (30) in Hong Kong |
1919-06-28 |
33rd US president Harry Truman (35) weds Elizabeth Truman (34) in Independence |
1921-04-07 |
French president Charles de Gaulle (30) weds Yvonne Vendroux (20) |
1926-07-10 |
Cuban president Fulgencio Batista (25) weds Elisa Godínez y Gómez (25) |
1930-07-14 |
1st Filippino President Emilio Aguinaldo (61) weds second wife Maria Agoncillo (51) at Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan |
1933-11-16 |
Ramon Magsaysay, latter President of the Philippines (26) weds Luz Banzon (18) at Lourdes church in Manila |
1934-10-08 |
South Korean President Syngman Rhee (59) weds Francesca Donner (34) |
1940-06-21 |
37th US President Richard Nixon (27) weds Pat Ryan (28) at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California |
1945-01-06 |
Future US President George H W Bush marries Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye NY |
1945-01-06 |
US First Lady Barbara Bush (19) weds 41st president George H. W. Bush (20) at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York |
1946-07-07 |
39th US President Jimmy Carter (21) weds Rosalynn Smith (18) in Plains, Georgia |
1948-10-15 |
38th US President Gerald Ford (35) weds department store fashion consultant Elizabeth (Betty) Bloomer Warren (30) at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Ford |
1952-03-08 |
Future US President Ronald Reagan (41) marries Nancy Davis (30) |
1954-05-01 |
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (36) weds Imelda Romualdez (24) in a Catholic church |
1954-10-11 |
Philippine president Corazon Aquino (21) weds Tarlac governor Benigno Aquino Jr (22) in Pasay City, Philippines |
1956-09-28 |
Russian president Boris Yeltsin (25) weds Naina Girina (24) |
1963-05-05 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (26) weds teacher Sajida Talfah (26) |
1964-08-29 |
46th US Vice President Dick Cheney (23) weds Lynne Ann Vincent (23) at the First Presbyterian Church of Casper in Wyoming |
1968-08-02 |
Later President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (21) weds lawyer Jose Miguel Arroyo (22) |
1969-04-11 |
South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse |
1975-10-11 |
Future US President Bill Clinton weds future Secretary of State Hillary Rodham |
1977-11-05 |
43rd US President George W. Bush (31) weds Laura Welch (31) at The First United Methodist Church in Midland, Texas |
1980-05-01 |
Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko (49) weds Bobi Ladawa |
1983-07-28 |
Russian president Vladimir Putin (30) weds flight attendant Lyudmila Shkrebneva (25) |
1992-06-28 |
US President Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch |
1992-10-03 |
Future US President Barack Obama (31) weds fellow lawyer Michelle Robinson (28) |
1993-11-26 |
Political strategist for President Clinton's campaign and political commentator James Carville (49) weds Republican political pundit Mary Matalin (40) in New Orleans, Louisiana |
1994-03-26 |
Half-brother of former President Bill Clinton and rodeo clown Roger Clinton (37) weds Molly Martin (25) in Dallas |
1994-05-21 |
ABC Sports President Roone Arledge (62) weds third wife Gigi Shaw |
1994-12-26 |
President Clinton's brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25) |
1995-10-14 |
"Sleep with Me" actress Meg Tilly (35) weds United Artists studio president John Calley (65) in Los Angeles |
1996-08-17 |
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (72) weds Grace Marufu (31) at Kutama College in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe |
1996-09-01 |
Presidential daughter Amy Carter (29), the only child of former U.S President Jimmy Carter weds computer consultant Jim Wentzel (28) in Plains, Georgia |
1996-09-21 |
Elder son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and magazine publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. (35) weds Caroline Bisset (30) at the wood-frame Brack Chapel of the First African Baptist Church in Cumberland Island, Georgia |
1997-01-04 |
Czech Republic's first president Vaclav Havel (60) weds Czech actress Dagmar Havlova (43) in Prague, Czech Republic |
2003-07-05 |
TV personality Debbie Matenopoulos (28) weds Lions Gate Entertainment president Jay Faires at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles, California |
2006-11-04 |
Radio and television journalist Alison Stewart (40) weds MSNBC vice-president of prime-time programming Bill Wolff (40) at the stylish New York restaurant Cipriani 23rd Street |
2008-02-02 |
23rd French Republic President Nicolas Sarkozy (53) weds supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France |
2008-05-10 |
President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna Bush (26) weds Henry Hager (30) at the Bush family ranch in Texas |
2010-07-31 |
Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton Chelsea Clinton (30) weds investment banker Marc Mezvinsky (32) at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, New York |
2012-06-02 |
Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley Biden (30) weds Dr. Howard David Krein at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware |
President - Notable Divorces
President - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2013-06-07 |
Russian President Vladimir Putin announces his divorce with his wife on national TV |
President - Notable Deaths
President - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1577-05-08 |
Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies |
1659-02-27 |
Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609) |
1672-02-19 |
Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592) |
1675-11-28 |
Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630) |
1681-07-25 |
Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631) |
1684-07-02 |
John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630) |
1724-05-03 |
John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662) |
1737-03-16 |
Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670) |
1767-01-07 |
Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703) |
1769-06-01 |
Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689) |
1775-10-21 |
Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721) |
1784-06-13 |
Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717) |
1789-02-19 |
Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738) |
1794-11-15 |
John Witherspoon, president of the College of New Jersey, dies at 71 |
1796-08-31 |
John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware, dies at 75 |
1797-11-29 |
Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723) |
1799-12-14 |
George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66 |
1804-07-12 |
Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken |
1821-10-24 |
Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740) |
1825-06-11 |
Daniel D Tompkins, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54 |
1826-07-04 |
John Adams, 2nd US President (1797-1801), dies at 90 |
1826-07-04 |
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President (1801-09), dies at 83 |
1828-12-22 |
Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US President Andrew Jackson, dies of heart failure |
1830-12-17 |
Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa Marta, Colombia |
1831-07-04 |
James Monroe, 5th US president (1817-25), dies of heart failure and tuberculosis at 73 |
1831-10-09 |
Ioannis Kapodistrias, President (1829-31) and founding father of modern Greece. |
1840-05-06 |
Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792) |
1841-04-04 |
William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States, becomes 1st president to die in office at 68 of pneumonia |
1842-09-10 |
Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51 |
1842-09-15 |
José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b. 1792) |
1843-03-21 |
Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786) |
1845-06-08 |
Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th US President (1828-37), dies at 78 |
1848-02-23 |
John Quincy Adams, 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80 |
1849-06-15 |
James Knox Polk, 11th US President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville Tenn at 53 |
1850-02-01 |
Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln |
1850-07-09 |
Zachary Taylor, 12th US president (1849-50), dies in White House at 65 |
1855-08-07 |
Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802) |
1858-01-09 |
Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798) |
1862-07-24 |
Martin Van Buren, 8th US president (1837-41), dies of heart failure at 79 |
1862-09-10 |
Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71 |
1865-04-15 |
Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56 |
1868-06-01 |
James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77 |
1869-10-08 |
Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64 |
1869-10-08 |
Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64 |
1870-05-01 |
Francisco Solano Lopez, fieldmarshal/president of Paraguay |
1871-07-16 |
Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln |
1874-03-08 |
Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies at 74 |
1875-05-17 |
John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821) |
1875-11-22 |
Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812) |
1876-02-24 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809) |
1876-09-05 |
Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790) |
1877-08-29 |
Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies of peritonitis at 76 |
1877-09-03 |
Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80 |
1881-09-19 |
James A Garfield, 20th President (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49 |
1882-06-30 |
Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged |
1883-03-04 |
Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President US Confederate States, dies at 71 |
1885-07-23 |
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President (1869-77) and Union general, dies of esophageal cancer in Mount McGregor NY at 63 |
1886-11-18 |
Chester A. Arthur, 21st US president (1881-85), dies at 56 |
1888-09-11 |
Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77 |
1891-07-04 |
Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809) |
1891-09-09 |
Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813) |
1892-08-23 |
Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827) |
1893-10-16 |
Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808) |
1893-11-22 |
James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826) |
1894-03-20 |
Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91 |
1894-06-24 |
M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56 |
1896-01-25 |
Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies |
1897-07-29 |
Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74 |
1898-09-02 |
Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807) |
1899-02-16 |
Francois Félix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57 |
1899-02-16 |
François Félix Faure, President Faure Shooting Pheasants |
1899-11-21 |
Garret A. Hobart, President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff |
1901-03-13 |
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (1889-93), dies in Indianapolis at 67 |
1901-09-14 |
William McKinley, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1901-10-10 |
Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814) |
1901-10-29 |
Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted |
1904-01-28 |
Karl Emil Franzos, The President |
1904-02-15 |
Marcus Hanna, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1904-07-14 |
President Paul Kruger, the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899—1902), heart failure at 78 |
1906-01-18 |
Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84 |
1907-05-26 |
Ida McKinley, President and Mrs. McKinley |
1907-06-09 |
Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered |
1908-06-01 |
James K. Jones, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1908-06-24 |
Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President (1885-89, 93-97), dies at 71 |
1908-06-24 |
Grover Cleveland, President Cleveland and President McKinley |
1908-07-20 |
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835) |
1908-11-04 |
Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies |
1909-06-28 |
Israel Durham, Phillies president dies |
1909-09-29 |
Miles B. McSweeney, President Roosevelt Reviewing the Troops at Charleston Exposition |
1910-07-04 |
Melville W. Fuller, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1910-10-04 |
Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850) |
1911-03-24 |
Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies |
1911-11-19 |
Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered |
1912-04-15 |
John Jacob Astor, President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff |
1912-10-30 |
James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855) |
1912-11-28 |
Daniel M. Ransdell, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1912-12-03 |
Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841) |
1913-06-28 |
Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841) |
1913-07-19 |
Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852) |
1915-07-02 |
Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies |
1915-07-28 |
Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched |
1916-06-06 |
Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 |
1918-02-20 |
Conrad Diehl, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1918-06-04 |
Charles W. Fairbanks, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Decorating the Monument of Champlain and Receiving Addresses of Welcome from the Mayor of Quebec, the Governor General of Canada and Vice President Fairbanks, Representative of the United States |
1918-08-17 |
Jacob Gallinger, Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1919-01-16 |
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848) |
1919-06-11 |
John C. Spooner, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1920-03-20 |
Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60 |
1920-05-16 |
Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824) |
1920-08-02 |
George W. Anson, The President's Special |
1922-08-12 |
Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies |
1924-02-03 |
Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67 |
1925-02-28 |
Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies |
1925-03-12 |
Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58 |
1925-09-24 |
Fanny Petersen, The President |
1926-01-26 |
John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University |
1926-05-09 |
Benjamin B. Odell Jr., Opening of the Pan-American Exposition Showing Vice President Roosevelt Leading the Procession |
1926-08-22 |
Charles William Eliot, American University president (Harvard, 1869-1909), dies at 92 |
1926-10-08 |
Axel Madsen, The President |
1926-11-12 |
Joseph Garney Cannon, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1927-10-02 |
John Dalzell, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1928-03-31 |
Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82 |
1928-06-17 |
Presley M. Rixey, President McKinley |
1929-06-02 |
Thomas C. McRae, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
1929-10-31 |
António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866) |
1929-12-20 |
Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 |
1929-12-20 |
Emile Loubet, Arrival and Departure of President Loubet |
1930-08-10 |
William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies |
1930-08-30 |
William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), dies |
1931-06-22 |
Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841) |
1933-01-05 |
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60 |
1933-07-03 |
Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30), dies at 80 |
1933-11-19 |
Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/vice-president, dies at 84 |
1934-03-27 |
Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844) |
1934-10-15 |
Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 |
1935-11-28 |
Betty Kirkeby, The President |
1936-02-20 |
John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 |
1937-02-07 |
Elihu Root, President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy Game |
1937-06-18 |
Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies |
1937-09-14 |
Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850) |
1937-12-17 |
Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 |
1938-11-10 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881) |
1938-12-27 |
Emile Vandervelde, President (1900—1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister of 3 Belgian governments dies at 72 |
1939-05-20 |
Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59 |
1939-10-25 |
Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73 |
1940-03-11 |
Julius McVicker, The Phantom President |
1940-10-11 |
Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882) |
1940-11-28 |
Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist |
1941-09-06 |
Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81 |
1941-10-18 |
Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860) |
1941-11-25 |
Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies |
1942-01-16 |
Prince Arthur, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Decorating the Monument of Champlain and Receiving Addresses of Welcome from the Mayor of Quebec, the Governor General of Canada and Vice President Fairbanks, Representative of the United States |
1942-02-13 |
Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (b. 1865) |
1942-07-11 |
Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau |
1943-02-04 |
Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies |
1943-04-07 |
Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859) |
1944-02-29 |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861) |
1944-04-29 |
Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851) |
1944-08-01 |
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65 |
1944-08-12 |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915) |
1945-04-06 |
Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42 |
1945-04-12 |
Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63 |
1945-05-14 |
Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856) |
1945-09-20 |
Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian president (b. 1869) |
1946-07-21 |
Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908) |
1947-06-09 |
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62 |
1947-07-02 |
Anna Rápolthy, Miss President |
1947-12-07 |
Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862) |
1948-04-15 |
Philippine president Manuel Roxas, dies of heart attack at 56 |
1948-09-03 |
Eduard Benesj, president Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48), dies |
1949-06-26 |
Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876) |
1949-07-12 |
Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860) |
1949-08-14 |
Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death |
1950-02-03 |
Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80 |
1950-03-06 |
Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871) |
1951-01-28 |
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867) |
1951-04-04 |
George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (b. 1870) |
1951-04-18 |
António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869) |
1951-04-23 |
Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865) |
1952-09-22 |
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865) |
1952-11-09 |
Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77 |
1952-11-09 |
Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886) |
1953-03-14 |
Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 |
1953-07-20 |
Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900) |
1954-08-24 |
Getulio D Vargas, President and dictator of Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71 |
1955-01-02 |
Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama (1952-55), assassinated |
1955-03-05 |
Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888) |
1955-03-23 |
Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875) |
1955-10-13 |
Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897) |
1955-11-19 |
Marquis James, Portrait of a President |
1956-02-29 |
Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65 |
1956-10-16 |
Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873) |
1956-10-25 |
Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67 |
1956-12-14 |
Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870) |
1957-03-17 |
Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines, dies in a plane crash at 49 |
1957-07-26 |
Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered |
1957-08-04 |
Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869) |
1958-01-07 |
Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74 |
1958-04-02 |
Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900) |
1959-03-29 |
Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies |
1959-03-30 |
Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875) |
1959-11-06 |
Jose P. Laurel, Philippine president, dies of heart attack at 68 |
1960-09-07 |
Wilhelm Pieck, president of German DR (1949-60), dies at 84 |
1961-10-30 |
Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies |
1962-01-01 |
Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 |
1963-02-28 |
Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884) |
1963-08-10 |
Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days |
1963-11-02 |
Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62 |
1963-11-22 |
John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas at 46 |
1964-01-01 |
Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890) |
1964-02-06 |
Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (1899-1901) (b. 1869) |
1964-10-20 |
Herbert Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90 |
1965-02-19 |
Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63 |
1965-02-28 |
Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74 |
1965-06-11 |
José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883) |
1965-07-19 |
Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90 |
1966-01-01 |
Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 |
1966-02-04 |
Gilbert H Grosvenor, president Natl Geographic Society, dies at 90 |
1966-04-12 |
Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed |
1966-11-23 |
Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882) |
1967-04-13 |
Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44 |
1967-07-21 |
Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies |
1967-11-28 |
Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies |
1967-12-09 |
Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898) |
1968-07-23 |
Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets) |
1969-02-03 |
Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered |
1969-03-24 |
Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55 |
1969-04-05 |
Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84 |
1969-04-27 |
René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919) |
1969-05-03 |
Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897) |
1969-07-28 |
Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882) |
1969-08-09 |
George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies at 72 |
1969-09-03 |
Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69), dies at 79 of heart failure |
1969-09-22 |
Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59 |
1969-10-15 |
Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered |
1969-11-21 |
Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924) |
1969-12-02 |
Kliment J Voroshilov, president USSR (1953-60), dies |
1969-12-17 |
Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 |
1970-01-18 |
David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96 |
1970-02-20 |
Café Filho, 18th Brazilian President (1954-1955) dies aged 71 |
1970-05-09 |
Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies |
1970-06-21 |
Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68 |
1970-11-09 |
Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79 |
1970-11-10 |
Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 |
1970-11-23 |
Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60 |
1971-01-27 |
Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913) |
1971-03-16 |
Thomas E. Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies of a heart attack at 68 |
1971-04-23 |
William Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76 |
1972-04-07 |
Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered |
1972-04-27 |
Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62 |
1972-12-21 |
Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 |
1972-12-26 |
Harry Truman, 33rd US President (1945-53), dies in KC Mo at 88 |
1973-01-22 |
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64 |
1973-09-11 |
Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65 |
1974-04-02 |
Georges Pompidou, French President (1969-1974) and Prime Minister (1962-1968), dies in Paris at 62 |
1974-04-20 |
Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies |
1974-06-11 |
Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883) |
1974-07-01 |
Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78 |
1974-08-15 |
Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered |
1975-04-13 |
N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies |
1975-08-29 |
Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92 |
1975-11-16 |
Ernst van Raalte, lawyer/minister-president, dies at 83 |
1976-06-02 |
Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor |
1976-07-07 |
Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76 |
1976-09-10 |
Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86 |
1976-12-06 |
João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918) |
1977-03-18 |
Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered |
1978-04-27 |
Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered |
1978-06-25 |
Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered |
1978-06-26 |
Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed |
1978-06-28 |
Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905) |
1978-08-31 |
John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913) |
1978-12-27 |
Houari Boumédienne, President of Algeria (b. 1932) |
1979-04-02 |
Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies at 72 |
1979-04-04 |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51 |
1979-07-15 |
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911) |
1979-09-16 |
Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed |
1979-10-26 |
Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated |
1979-12-27 |
Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered |
1980-04-12 |
William R Tolbert Jr, Liberian President & 27 others killed in coup |
1980-06-23 |
Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894) |
1980-07-13 |
Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies |
1980-07-13 |
Sir Seretse Khama, Botswanan statesman and president, 59 |
1981-02-26 |
Munabi, assistant to Uganda president Obote, murdered |
1981-05-12 |
Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies |
1981-08-30 |
Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb |
1981-09-28 |
Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908) |
1982-01-22 |
Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71 |
1982-01-24 |
Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918) |
1982-05-03 |
Eunice Murray, Say Goodbye to the President |
1982-07-16 |
Charles Robberts, The first State President of South Africa, dies at 88 |
1982-07-29 |
Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81 |
1982-09-14 |
Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, assassinated by a bomb |
1982-10-04 |
Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies |
1983-01-11 |
Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79 |
1983-05-19 |
Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission dies at 80 |
1983-09-01 |
Henry Jackson, Bob Hope for President |
1984-03-26 |
Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922) |
1984-06-24 |
Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president, dies at 78 |
1984-12-05 |
Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917) |
1985-04-21 |
Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75 |
1985-10-09 |
Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905) |
1986-05-13 |
George Gaines, All the President's Men |
1986-08-31 |
Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president of Finland, dies at 85 |
1986-10-20 |
Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53 |
1986-11-17 |
Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered |
1987-08-07 |
Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon, dies at 87 |
1987-09-29 |
Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70 |
1987-10-15 |
Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies |
1987-11-19 |
Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894) |
1988-01-02 |
Wilbert G. Nuttycombe, Kisses for My President |
1988-01-13 |
Chiang Ching-huo, president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69 |
1988-04-01 |
Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85 |
1988-04-01 |
Gene Lindsey, All the President's Men |
1988-06-11 |
Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89 |
1988-08-10 |
Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86 |
1988-08-15 |
Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash |
1988-09-14 |
Louis Quinn, All the President's Men |
1989-07-19 |
Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913) |
1989-09-28 |
Ferdinand Marcos, President of Philippines (1965-86), dies in Honolulu at 72 |
1989-11-22 |
Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon |
1989-11-26 |
Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies |
1990-01-04 |
Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies |
1990-02-16 |
Joshua Shelley, All the President's Men |
1990-02-23 |
Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62 |
1990-02-24 |
Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93 |
1990-06-08 |
Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies |
1990-06-08 |
Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies |
1990-07-18 |
Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897) |
1990-09-10 |
Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated |
1990-10-07 |
Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies |
1990-10-12 |
Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered |
1991-02-12 |
Robert F. Wagner, President Kennedy's Birthday Salute |
1991-04-24 |
J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies |
1991-06-29 |
Margaret Suckley, Fala: The President's Dog |
1991-10-13 |
Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies |
1991-11-10 |
Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies |
1991-11-18 |
Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78 |
1992-01-03 |
Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies |
1992-02-16 |
Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies |
1992-04-19 |
Henry Calvert, All the President's Men |
1992-05-12 |
Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies |
1992-05-29 |
Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies |
1992-05-30 |
Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77 |
1992-06-21 |
Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies |
1992-06-29 |
Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73 |
1992-07-11 |
Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73 |
1992-07-15 |
Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922) |
1992-07-22 |
Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies |
1992-08-03 |
Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies |
1992-08-05 |
Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies |
1992-11-19 |
Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91 |
1992-12-03 |
Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies |
1993-02-16 |
Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78 |
1993-03-15 |
Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies |
1993-03-20 |
Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 |
1993-03-31 |
Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies |
1993-04-11 |
Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63 |
1993-04-17 |
Turgut Özal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65 |
1993-10-16 |
John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76 |
1993-12-16 |
Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75 |
1993-12-31 |
Thomas J Watson Jr, president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79 |
1994-01-06 |
Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70 |
1994-04-06 |
Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated |
1994-04-08 |
Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash |
1994-04-22 |
Richard Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of a stroke at 81 |
1994-05-29 |
Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81 |
1994-07-08 |
Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82 |
1994-09-30 |
Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69 |
1994-10-01 |
Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86 |
1994-10-19 |
Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan, dies |
1994-12-25 |
Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78 |
1995-01-02 |
Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies |
1995-01-02 |
Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84 |
1995-01-09 |
Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85 |
1995-04-01 |
H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer (b. 1914) |
1995-04-18 |
Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies |
1995-10-24 |
Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82 |
1995-11-03 |
Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887) |
1995-12-29 |
Nello Celio, president of Switz (1972), dies at 81 |
1996-01-28 |
Or San Yu, president of Burma in (1981-88), dies |
1996-03-02 |
Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61 |
1996-03-05 |
Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies |
1996-04-21 |
Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), dies at 52 |
1996-04-30 |
Walter Kohner, Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President |
1996-05-31 |
Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies |
1996-06-01 |
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83 |
1996-06-04 |
Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies |
1996-06-20 |
Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies |
1996-08-27 |
Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies |
1996-09-12 |
Ernesto Geisel, milt president of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89 |
1997-01-16 |
Jim Kensil, NFL president (NY Jets), dies of heart failure at 66 |
1997-04-17 |
Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78 |
1997-04-21 |
Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies |
1997-04-21 |
Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (1961-65), dies aged 86 |
1997-04-24 |
Pat Paulsen, Pat Paulsen for President |
1997-05-08 |
Robert G. Kane, Kisses for My President |
1997-05-19 |
Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12 |
1997-05-20 |
Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies |
1997-07-24 |
Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies |
1997-08-01 |
Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies |
1997-09-07 |
Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66 |
1997-12-27 |
Ewart G Abner Jr, president (Motown Records), dies at 74 |
1998-01-23 |
Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies |
1998-06-08 |
Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943) |
1998-09-09 |
Karen Hale Wookey, All the President's Men |
1999-01-25 |
Robert Shaw, The American President |
1999-04-14 |
Florence Pepper, All the President's Men |
1999-04-25 |
Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914) |
1999-12-10 |
Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922) |
1999-12-24 |
João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918) |
1999-12-26 |
Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918) |
2000-06-10 |
Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930) |
2000-09-27 |
Frank Wills, All the President's Men |
2001-01-16 |
Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939) |
2001-03-19 |
Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924) |
2001-05-12 |
Jacques Lowe, The Making of the President 1960 |
2001-06-07 |
Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907) |
2001-06-07 |
Charles Templeton, The Kidnapping of the President |
2001-07-31 |
Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914) |
2001-09-29 |
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923) |
2001-12-20 |
Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906) |
2002-02-08 |
Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936) |
2002-02-13 |
Richard Kleiner, Linda Lovelace for President |
2002-05-19 |
Isabel Halliburton, All the President's Men |
2002-07-14 |
Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906) |
2002-10-31 |
Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903) |
2002-12-22 |
Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (b. 1929) |
2003-01-27 |
Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (b. 1909) |
2003-02-28 |
Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917) |
2003-03-09 |
Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946) |
2003-03-21 |
Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924) |
2003-07-15 |
Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920) |
2003-07-21 |
John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938) |
2003-08-19 |
Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926) |
2003-10-19 |
Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925) |
2003-10-23 |
Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897) |
2003-11-10 |
Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936) |
2003-11-20 |
David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930) |
2003-12-06 |
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918) |
2003-12-12 |
Heydər Əliyev, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923) |
2004-01-09 |
Philip Geyelin, All the President's Men |
2004-01-27 |
Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928) |
2004-02-17 |
José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920) |
2004-02-26 |
Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956) |
2004-04-18 |
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920) |
2004-05-09 |
Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951) |
2004-06-05 |
Ronald Reagan, 40th US President, Governor of California and radio and film actor, dies aged 93 |
2004-07-06 |
Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932) |
2004-08-09 |
Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908) |
2004-11-02 |
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, dies at 85 |
2004-12-16 |
Seymour Melman, President King |
2005-02-05 |
Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (b. 1937) |
2005-04-24 |
Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924) |
2005-05-02 |
Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915) |
2005-07-27 |
Robert Krume, All the President's Men |
2005-07-30 |
John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945) |
2005-10-10 |
Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925) |
2005-10-24 |
José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926) |
2005-11-09 |
K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921) |
2005-12-06 |
Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923) |
2006-01-21 |
Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944) |
2006-01-27 |
Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931) |
2006-03-11 |
Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941) |
2006-03-14 |
Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929) |
2006-08-16 |
Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912) |
2006-10-16 |
Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936) |
2006-10-31 |
Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916) |
2006-12-21 |
Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940) |
2006-12-26 |
Gerald R Ford, 38th President of the United States, dies at 93 |
2007-01-04 |
Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915) |
2007-02-03 |
George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993-2001) (b. 1928) |
2007-04-06 |
George Jenkins, All the President's Men |
2007-04-23 |
Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931) |
2007-07-11 |
Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913) |
2007-12-31 |
Kathryn Ish, The American President |
2008-01-07 |
Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917) |
2008-01-18 |
John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929) |
2008-01-27 |
Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910) |
2008-01-27 |
Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921) |
2008-01-27 |
Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints |
2008-02-23 |
Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950) |
2008-03-27 |
Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921) |
2008-04-12 |
Patrick 'Paddy' Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923) |
2008-05-01 |
Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909) |
2008-07-05 |
Hasan Doğan, 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956) |
2008-08-17 |
Franco Sensi, Italian oil tycoon and president of A.S. Roma |
2008-08-22 |
Jeff MacKay, All the President's Men |
2008-12-05 |
Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Romanian politician and president of the Association of Romanian Former Political Prisoners. (b. 1928) |
2008-12-12 |
Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot former president (b. 1934) |
2008-12-15 |
León Febres Cordero, Ecuador's former President (b. 1931) |
2009-01-27 |
R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910) |
2009-02-15 |
Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935) |
2009-03-02 |
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939) |
2009-03-08 |
Ali Bongo, President of the Magic Circle (b.1929) |
2009-03-28 |
Janet Jagan, Guyana's Woman President |
2009-03-31 |
Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinean ex president (b. 1927) |
2009-05-23 |
Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of the Republic of Korea (b. 1946) |
2009-06-08 |
Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935) |
2009-08-01 |
Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (1986-1992) (b. 1933) |
2009-08-18 |
Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925) |
2009-09-16 |
Myles Brand, NCAA President (b. 1942) |
2009-09-28 |
Guillermo Endara, former President of Panama (b. 1936) |
2009-12-24 |
Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (b. 1916) |
2009-12-30 |
Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (b.1940) |
2010-04-10 |
Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, then President of Poland is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 60 |
2010-04-21 |
Juan Antonio Samaranch, International Olympic Committee president (b. 1920) |
2010-05-06 |
Robert J. Serling, The President's Plane Is Missing |
2010-06-26 |
Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (b. 1932) |
2010-08-12 |
Guido de Marco, 6th president of Malta, 45th President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1931) |
2010-08-17 |
Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and eighth President of the Italian Republic (b. 1928) |
2010-09-10 |
Ron Menchine, All the President's Men |
2010-12-25 |
Carlos Andrés Pérez, former President of Venezuela (b. 1922) |
2011-05-29 |
Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1931) |
2011-05-29 |
Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian president (b. 1949) |
2011-09-20 |
Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. (b. 1940) |
2011-10-07 |
Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925) |
2012-01-01 |
Kiro Gligorov, President of the Republic of Macedonia 1991-1999 |
2012-01-02 |
Ivan Calin, Moldavian President and Prime Minister 1980-1990, dies at 76 |
2012-01-09 |
Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau, dies of diabetes at 64 |
2012-01-13 |
Fritz Roland, The Making of a President: 1964 |
2012-03-10 |
Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian president, dies at 86 |
2012-03-14 |
Censu Tabone, President of Malta, dies at 98 |
2012-03-23 |
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia, dies from liver failure at 77 |
2012-04-01 |
Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican President, dies from complications of pulmonary emphysema at 77 |
2012-04-06 |
Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, dies from heart attack at 78 |
2012-04-11 |
Ahmed Ben Bella, First president of Algeria, dies at 93 |
2012-07-24 |
John Atta Mills, Ghanaian President, dies at 68 |
2012-10-06 |
Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian president, dies from cancer at 83 |
2012-12-10 |
Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi President, dies from heart surgery complications at 81 |
2013-03-05 |
Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, dies from respiratory failure at 58 |
2013-06-19 |
Nate Esformes, All the President's Men |
2013-12-05 |
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-1990) and South African President (1994-99) dies of a lung infection at 95 |
2014-05-16 |
Viktor Sukhodrev, JFK: A President Betrayed |
2014-06-30 |
Alejandra Da Passano, Mr. President |
2014-10-19 |
Alfred Wertheimer, The Making of the President 1960 |
2015-01-11 |
Wallace Westfeldt, President F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi |
2015-03-09 |
John D. Arras, President Bioethical Commission |
2016-01-31 |
Former president of El Salvador Francisco Flores dead at 56 |
2016-03-07 |
Cornell president Elizabeth Garrett dies of cancer aged 52 |
2016-03-24 |
Ken Howard, actor and SAG-AFTRA president, dies aged 71 |
2016-04-20 |
Patricio Aylwin, president who guided Chile to democracy, dies aged 97 |
2016-05-10 |
Ex-England seamer and MCC president JJ Warr dies aged 88 |
2016-07-08 |
MEHWAR: President Ghani's Military Advisor Anwari Dies aged 60 |
2016-08-17 |
Former FIFA president Joao Havelange dies, aged 100 |
2016-08-23 |
Former Singapore President SR Nathan Dies Aged 92 |
2016-08-25 |
Former German President Walter Scheel dies aged 97 |
2016-09-03 |
Uzbek President Islam Karimov dies, aged of 78 |
2016-09-17 |
Former Italian President Ciampi dies aged 95 |
2016-09-28 |
Former Israeli president Shimon Peres dies aged 93 |