- 1732
| Feb 22 | George Washington, the first president of the United States, is born on his parents' plantation in the Virginia Colony. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 02 | Martha Washington (Dandridge Custis) first First Lady of the US, wife of first US President George Washington; is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1735
| Oct 30 | (Declaration of Independence) John Adams, Braintree, Mass (F) 2nd pres (1797-1801), signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1739
| Jul 26 | George Clinton NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1743
| Apr 12 | Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington, dies. (Andrist, RK, "The Founding Fathers: George Washington", 1972, ISBN 06-0101127-X) | |
| Apr 13 | (Declaration of Independence) Thomas Jefferson, (D-R) 3rd pres (1801-09), drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence, is born in Shadwell, VA. | Ref: 5 |
- 1744
| Jul 17 | (Declaration of Independence) Elbridge Gerry (DR) 5th VP, (Mass-Gov), US merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, invented gerrymandering, is born Marblehead, MA. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 11 | Abigail Smith Adams, wife of the 2nd US president and mother of the 6th US president, is born in Weymouth MA. | Ref: 68 |
- 1748
| Oct 19 | Martha Jefferson (Wayles), wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1751
| Mar 16 | James Madison, Port Conway VA, (D-R), 4th US President (1809-17), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1753
| Aug 04 | George Washington became a Master Mason on this day. | Ref: 4 |
- 1754
| May 28 | Lieutenant Colonel George Washington leads a party of Virginians and Mingos to attack a French party under Ensign Coulon de Jumonville, who is killed under circumstances called "assassination" by the French. | Ref: 92 |
| May 28 | George Washington and troops capture French east of Uniontown PA at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh). | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 03 | In the Seven Years War, George Washington surrenders encampment called Fort Necessity at Great Meadows after Tanaghrisson's Mingos desert in contempt of Washington's leadership, leaving the French in control of the Ohio Valley. Captain Robert Stobo is given as hostage. | Ref: 74 |
| Jul 13 | George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French, leaving them in control of the Ohio Valley. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 08 | News of Washington's surrender at Fort Necessity reaches London and stimulates Newcastle to appeal for help from Cumberland. | Ref: 92 |
- 1758
| Apr 28 | The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, is born in Westmoreland County, VA. | Ref:77 |
| Jul 24 | George Washington is admitted to Virginia House of Burgess. | Ref: 5 |
- 1759
| Jan 06 | Martha Dandridge, widow of Daniel Park Custis, marries George Washington. | Ref: 68 |
- 1760
| Mar 25 | Thomas Jefferson enteres the College of William and Mary. His mentor at the time was William Small, a Scot and professor of natural philosophy. | |
- 1762
| Apr 25 | Thomas Jefferson begins to study law with George Wythe. | |
- 1764
| Oct 25 | John Adams, the 2nd US President, marries Abigail Smith. The marriage will last 54 years. | Ref: 5 |
- 1767
| Mar 15 | Andrew Jackson, the 7th U.S. President (1829-37), is born in Waxhaw, SC. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 15 | Rachel Jackson (Donelson Robards), US First Lady, wife of 7th President Andrew Jackson is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 11 | John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President (D) (1825-1829), is born in Braintree MA. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1768
| May 20 | Dolley Madison (Payne) US First Lady, wife of 4th US President James Madison, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 30 | Elizabeth Kortright, later Elizabeth Monroe, first lady to U.S. President James Monroe, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1773
| Feb 09 | William Henry Harrison, (Whig) 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841), is born in Charles City County, Va. | Ref: 70 |
- 1774
| Jun 21 | Daniel D Tompkins (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1775
| Feb 12 | Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of the 6th US president, is born. | Ref: 15 |
| May 24 | John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress. | Ref: 62 |
| Jul 25 | Anna Harrison (Symmes) wife of 9th US President Benjamin Harrison; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 12 | General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks. | Ref: 5 |
- 1776
| Mar 25 | The Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Harvard College conferred the first honorary Doctor of Laws degree to George Washington. | Ref: 4 |
- 1777
| Apr 12 | Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser", American politician and statesman who ran unsuccessfully for president three times, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1780
| Oct 17 | Richard Johnson 9th U.S. Vice President [1837-1841: under President Martin Van Buren]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1781
| Nov 05 | John Hanson is elected the first 'President of the United States in Congress assembled' (8 years before Washington was elected). | Ref: 5 |
- 1782
| Mar 18 | John Caldwell Calhoun is born in Abbeville SC. He was the U.S. Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson [1825-1832] and the first VP to resign office. He became a U.S. Senator. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 19 | John Calhoun U.S. Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson [1825-1832]; the first VP to resign office: became a U.S. Senator; died Mar 31, 1850 | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 06 | Martha Jefferson (Wayles), wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson; dies at age 33. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 05 | Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook NY, (D) 8th President (1837-41), is born. He is the first president actually born in the United States. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1783
| Mar 08 | Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the U.S. is born. She passed away Feb 5, 1819 -- before he was elected president. | Ref: 4 |
- 1784
| Nov 24 | Zachary Taylor (Whig) 12th President (Mar 5,1849-July 9,1850), is born in Orange County, Va. | Ref: 5 |
- 1785
| Mar 10 | Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 26 | The first Spanish jacks imported to the United States arrive in Boston. They were a gift from King Charles III of Spain. George Washington bred them resulting in the first donkeys to be born in America. | Ref: 4 |
- 1786
| Apr 07 | William Rufus DeVane King (D) 13th U.S. Vice President: first VP to have served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; took the only presidential or vice presidential oath ever administered outside of the United States [Havana, Cuba]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1787
| Nov 21 | Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar. | Ref: 5 |
- 1788
| Dec 09 | George Washington sold his race horse, Magnolia, to Colonel Henry Lee. Washington reportedly got 5,000 acres of Kentucky farmland. | Ref: 4 |
- 1789
| Jan 07 | The first US presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first president. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 04 | George Washington, the American revolutionary leader, is unanimously elected the first president of the United States by all sixty-nine presidential electors. | Ref: 3 |
| Apr 14 | George Washington notified by the Commerce Secretary that he had been voted President. | Ref: 10 |
| Apr 16 | President-elect Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States, 9 days before George Washington. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 23 | President-elect George Washington and his wife move into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in NY. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | George Washington is sworn in as the first President of the United States in New York City, at Federal Hall, Wall and Broad Street. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | The first Presidential Inaugural Ball was held in NY City. Each lady in attendance received as a gift a portrait of George Washington. Actually, the ball was the first such event held for the incoming President of the United States. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 25 | Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 15 | First presidental tour-George Washington in New England. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 26 | A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. | Ref: 70 |
- 1790
| Jan 08 | George Washington delivers first "State of the Union" address. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 21 | Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 29 | The tenth president of the United States, John Tyler, was born in Charles City County VA. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 12 | Letitia Christian Tyler first wife of President Tyler, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1791
| Apr 23 | James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Federalist/Democrat), 15th US President (1857-61), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1792
| Feb 21 | Congress passes Presidential Succession Act. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 10 | George Mifflin Dallas (D) 11th VP (1845-49), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 13 | The cornerstone of what was termed the President’s House was laid by George Washington in Washington, DC. The name, White House, was not adopted until 1818. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 05 | George Washington was re-elected president; John Adams was re-elected vice president. | Ref: 5 |
- 1793
| Mar 04 | President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 22 | President George Washington attends opening of Rickett's, first circus in US, in Philadelphia. | Ref: 5 |
- 1794
| Sep 15 | James Madison marries Dolly Payne Todd | Ref: 22 |
- 1795
| Nov 02 | James Knox, Polk NC, 11th President (D) (1845-1849), is born in Mecklenburg County, N.C. | Ref: 5 |
- 1796
| Sep 17 | President George Washington delivers his "Farewell Address" to Congress before concluding his second term in office. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 07 | Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States. | Ref: 70 |
- 1797
| Mar 04 | Vice-President John Adams, elected President on December 7, to replace George Washington, is sworn in. | Ref: 2 |
- 1798
| Mar 13 | Abigail Fillmore (Powers) U.S. First Lady, wife of 13th President Millard Fillmore; instituted the White House library; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1799
| Dec 14 | George Washington, American general and first president of U.S, dies at his Mount Vernon home at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 18 | George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | The late George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." | Ref: 70 |
- 1800
| Jan 07 | Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States (Whig, 1850-53), is born in Summerhill, New York. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 02 | John Adams moved to Washington DC. He was the first President to live in what became the capital of the United States. It would be November before he would move into the People’s House, or the Executive Mansion, later known as The White House. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 01 | First President to live in the white house (John Adams). | Ref: 5 |
- 1801
| Mar 04 | Thomas Jefferson becomes the first President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. | Ref: 2 |
- 1802
| May 22 | Martha Washington (Dandridge Custis) first First Lady of the US, wife of first US President George Washington; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
- 1803
| Sep 04 | Sarah Childress Polk, 1st Lady: wife of 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1804
| Feb 25 | Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 23 | Franklin Pierce, hero of the American war with Mexico and 14th president of the United States, is born in Hillsboro, NH. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 05 | Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President, George Clinton Vice-President. | Ref: 5 |
- 1806
| Jan 17 | James Madison Randolph, grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, was the first child born in the White House. The blessed event took place on this day in Washington, DC. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 12 | Jane (Means) Pierce (Appleton), wife of Franklin Pierce [1853-1857], 14th President of the U.S., is born. | Ref: 4 |
| May 30 | Andrew Jackson, "Old Hickory,"wounded in duel in which he killed Charlie Dickinson in Kentucky. | Ref: 10 |
| Jun 12 | Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham Lincoln, marries Nancy Hanks. (Ref) | |
- 1807
| Feb 10 | Sarah Lincoln, sister of Abraham Lincoln, is born. (Ref) | |
| Aug 18 | Charles F. Adams, U.S. diplomat and public official whose father was John Quincy Adams is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1808
| Jun 03 | Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, is born in Christian County, Kentucky. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 07 | James Madison is elected president, George Clinton Vice-President, in succession of Thomas Jefferson. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 29 | Andrew Johnson, American vice president who succeeded Lincoln after the April 15, 1865, assassination and the first American president to be impeached, is born in Raleigh, North Carolina. | Ref: 68 |
- 1809
| Feb 12 | Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a one room log cabin on Nolin Creek in present-day Larue County, Kentucky. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 04 | Madison becomes first President inaugurated in American-made clothes. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 27 | Hannibal Hamlin 15th U.S. Vice President [under Abraham Lincoln: 1861-1865], is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1811
| Nov 07 | Rebellious Indians in a conspiracy organized in defiance of the United States government by Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, are defeated during his absence in the Battle of the Wabash (or Tippecanoe), near Indianapolis, by William Henry Harrison, governor of IN Territory, giving Harrison a presidential slogan. | Ref: 2 |
- 1812
| Feb 16 | Henry Wilson (R) 18th Vice-President (1873-75), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 20 | George Clinton died in Washington at age 73, becoming the first vice president to die while in office. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | James Madison re-elected President of US, Elbridge Gerry Vice-President. | Ref: 5 |
- 1813
| Apr 23 | Stephen Arnold Douglas [Little Giant] US Senator (Lincoln debates), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1814
| Nov 23 | (Declaration of Independence) Elbridge Gerry (DR) 5th VP (1813-14), (Mass-Gov), US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), invented gerrymandering, dies at age 70. | Ref: 68 |
- 1816
| Dec 04 | James Monroe (VA), elected 5th President, defeating Federalist Rufus King. | Ref: 5 |
- 1817
| Sep 22 | John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State. | Ref: 5 |
- 1818
| Jan 01 | Official reopening of the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | Former president Thomas Jefferson set forth in a letter to a Jewish journalist his opinion of religious intolerance: 'Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.'. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's monther, dies of "milk sickness," an illness contracted by drinking milk from a cow that had consumed the poisonous white snakeroot. Abraham refered to her as "Angel Mother". (Ref) | |
| Oct 28 | Abigail Smith Adams, wife of the 2nd US president and mother of the 6th US president, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 13 | Mary Todd Lincoln First Lady: wife of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1819
| Feb 05 | Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the U.S. dies, before her husband is elected president. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 30 | William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 02 | Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas, marries a widow, Sarah Bush Johnston, and becomes stepfather to her three children. Abraham develops much affection for his stepmother. (Ref) | |
| Dec 09 | Ann C Coleman fiancee of President Buchanan, commits suicide. | Ref: 5 |
- 1820
| Mar 09 | James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | Julia Tyler (Gardiner) 2nd wife of 10th US President John Tyler (1841-45), is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 07 | James Monroe, the 5th President of U.S., was reelected. Monroe was unopposed for the Democratic-Republican party nomination and ran unopposed in the general election. Only one elector did not vote for him. The reason (according to legend) was so that George Washington would be the only president unanimously chosen by the electoral college. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 06 | US President James Monroe re-elected, Daniel D Tompkins Vice-President. | Ref: 5 |
- 1821
| Jan 21 | John Cabell Breckinridge (D) 14th US Vice Pressident (1857-61)/Major-General (Confederacy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 05 | James Monroe becomes the first president to be inaugurated on March 5, only because the 4th was a Sunday. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 17 | Andrew Jackson becomes the governor of Florida. | Ref: 2 |
- 1822
| Apr 27 | [Hiram] Ulysses S[impson] Grant, Union general during the American Civil War, 18th President of the United States (1869-1877), is born in Point Pleasant OH. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 04 | Rutherford B. Hayes (R), 19th president of the U.S. (1877-1881), is born in Delaware, Ohio. | Ref: 2 |
- 1823
| Mar 23 | Schuyler Colfax, 17th U.S. Vice President [1869-1873) under Ulysses S. Grant, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1824
| May 16 | Levi Parsons Morton (R) 22nd US Vice President (1889-93), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 24 | Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of first public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 02 | Popular presidential vote first recorded; Jackson beats J.Q. Adams. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 01 | The presidential election goes to the House of Representatives since no candidate had an electoral majority. Jackson had 99 votes, Adams 84 votes and Secretary of State William H. Crawford had 41 votes. The House chose Adams in a deal that made Henry Clay the Secretary of State. | Ref: 3 |
- 1825
| Feb 09 | The House of Representatives selects John Qunicy Adams as the next president over Andrew Jackson in a deal that makes Henry Clay the Secretary of State. The House selected the president because no candidate had a clear majority in the November election. | Ref: 3 |
| Mar 04 | John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 06 | President John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory. | Ref: 5 |
- 1826
| Jan 26 | Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady of U.S., wife of 18th President Ulysses S. Grant, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| May 07 | Varina Howell Davis, first lady (Confederacy), died in 1905, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 04 | (Declaration of Independence) 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former president and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson dies at age 83. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 04 | (Declaration of Independence) 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former president and signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams dies at age 90. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 03 | George B. McClellen, Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1827
| May 17 | Andrew Johnson, 17, (later the 17th US president) marries Eliza McCardle, 16, in Greeneville TN. (Ref: Klapthor, Margaret Brown, "The First Ladies", ©1995, ISBN 0-912308-59-1) | |
| Aug 30 | Ellen Arthur (Ellen Lewis Herndon) (First Lady: married to U.S. 21st President Chester A. Arthur) is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1828
| Feb 25 | John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 03 | Andrew Jackson is elected 7th President of US, John C Calhoun Vice-President. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | Rachel Jackson (Donelson Robards), wife of President Andrew Jackson, dies just a few weeks before her husband's inauguration as President. | Ref: 2 |
- 1829
| Mar 04 | The ‘spoils system’ was introduced by President Andrew Jackson when he appoints Simon Cameron as a reward for political assistance. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | An unruly crowd mobbed the White House during the inaugural reception for President Jackson. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | George Washington Adams son of John Q Adams, dies on City Island New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
- 1830
| Sep 23 | Elizabeth Monroe (Kortright) First Lady: wife of 5th U.S. President James Monroe; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 05 | Chester A. (Alan) Arthur, ® 21st U.S. President [1881-1885]; married to Ellen Lewis Herndon [two sons, one daughter]; nickname: The Gentleman Boss; is born in Fairfield VT. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 24 | Belva Ann Lockwood women’s rights advocate, attorney, first woman formally nominated to run for president of the U.S; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1831
| Jul 04 | The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe (1817-25), dies in NY City at age 73. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 28 | 1st lady: wife of 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 19 | James A Garfield, 20th President (March 4-Sept 19, 1881), first left-handed president, is born in Orange, Ohio. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 05 | Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | James Hoban, the architect who designed the White House, dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1832
| Feb 26 | John George Nicolay, private secretary and biographer to Abraham Lincoln, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 09 | Abraham Lincoln of New Salem, IL announced that he would run for political office for the first time. He sought a seat in the Illinois state legislature. He lost. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 19 | Lucretia Rudolph, President Garfield's first lady, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| May 21 | First Democratic convention in Baltimore nominates Andrew Jackson/Martin van Buren. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 01 | Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison first wife of Benjamin Harrison, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 05 | Andrew Jackson re-elected President of US, Martin Van Buren Vice-President. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | John C. Calhoun, citing political differences with President Andrew Jackson and a desire to fill a vacant senate seat in South Carolina, becomes the first vice president in U.S. history to resign from his office. | Ref: 3 |
- 1833
| Jun 06 | The first US President to ride in a railroad car was Andrew Jackson. President Jackson boarded a B&O (Baltimore & Ohio) passenger train in Baltimore, MD. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 20 | Benjamin Harrison (R), the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 20 | Dr Samuel A Mudd convicted of giving medical aid to John Wilkes Booth, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1834
| Mar 28 | Andrew Jackson, 7th US President, is censured by the [Whig] Senate. President Jackson sent the Senate a message denying its power to pass a resolution of censure. The Senate refused to receive his message. The censure was later expunged by the [Democratic] Senate on January 16, 1837. | Ref: 3 |
- 1835
| Jan 30 | Richard Lawrence misfires two pistols misfires at President Andrew Jackson at the White House. He survives the 1st presidential assasination attempt. | Ref: 39 |
| Aug 25 | Ann Rutledge, erroneously said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Illinois at 22 of "brain fever". | Ref: 93 |
| Oct 23 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson 23rd Vice President of the U.S. [1893-1897]; grandfather of U.S. presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson [1952], is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1836
| Jun 28 | The fourth president of the United States (1809-17), James Madison, dies in Montpelier VA at age 85 | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 09 | Abraham Lincoln receives his license to practice law. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 07 | Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States. | Ref: 70 |
- 1837
| Jan 16 | Andrew Jackson, 7th US President, censure of March 28, 1834 was withdrawn by a Democratic Senate. | |
| Feb 08 | The Senate selected Richard Mentor Johnson as U.S. vice president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 04 | Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Grover (Stephen) Cleveland 22nd [1885-1889] & 24th [1893-1897] U.S. President; only one to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms; only president to be married in White House [to Frances Folsom (2 sons, 3 daughters)]; the first to have a child born there; is born in Caldwell NJ. | Ref: 68 |
- 1838
| May 10 | John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 23 | Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, the first woman presidential candidate (1872) in the United States is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1839
| Dec 04 | The Whig Party opened a national convention in Harrisburg, Pa., during which delegates nominated William Henry Harrison for president. | Ref: 64 |
- 1840
| Dec 02 | William H Harrison elected President of US, John Tyler Vice-President. | Ref: 5 |
- 1841
| Mar 04 | Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | John Tyler is first vice-president to become President automatically on death of Harrison. | Ref: 10 |
| Apr 04 | President William Henry Harrison (9th President of the United States), at age 68, succumbs to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office. | Ref: 70 |
- 1842
| Jan 31 | John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 10 | Letitia Tyler Pres Tyler's wife, dies at age 51. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 04 | Abe Lincoln, 33, marries Mary Todd, 23, in Springfield, IL. | Ref: 4 |
- 1843
| Jan 29 | The 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, is born in Niles, Ohio. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 01 | Robert Todd Lincoln, first child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, is born in a boarding house called the Globe Tavern in Springfield. He is named after Mary's father, Robert Smith Todd. | Ref: 68 |
- 1844
| May 01 | Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | The first dark horse candidate was born at the Democratic Convention in Baltimore, Maryland. With the political rush of support for James K. Polk, after just seven ballots, Mr. Polk’s name appeared to break the deadlock. Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot and, eventually, the US Presidency. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 03 | Vice President Garret A. Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99), served under President McKinley, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 26 | John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride in a ceremony in New York City, thus becoming the first US President to marry while in office. (American First Ladies, ISBN 0-89356-070-7, © 2002) | |
| Dec 04 | James K Polk elected 11th President of US, George M Dallas Vice President. | Ref: 5 |
- 1845
| Mar 04 | James K Polk inaugrated as 11th President. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President (1829-37), dies at the Hermitage in Nashville, TN at age 78. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1846
| Mar 10 | Edward Baker "Eddie" Lincoln, second child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln in the family home in Springfield, Illinois. He is named after a friend, Edward Baker. (Ref) | |
- 1847
| Jun 08 | Ida McKinley (Saxton) First Lady: wife of 25th US President, William McKinley; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 10 | John Roy Lynch, first African American to deliver the keynote address at a Republican National Convention, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 25 | Vinnie Ream, who sculpted President Abraham Lincoln from life shortly before he was assassinated, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1848
| Feb 23 | John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States (D) (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 22 | Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 09 | Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president at its convention in Buffalo, N.Y. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 07 | General Zachary Taylor emerged as a hero of the Mexican War (1846-1948) and was nominated as the presidential candidate at the Whig convention in June 1848. He defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, and was elected the 12th President of the United Stated this day. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 29 | President James Polk turns on the first gas light at the White House. | Ref: 4 |
- 1849
| Mar 03 | David Atchison, president pro tempore of the senate, was president for one day since Taylor won't take office on a Sunday. | Ref: 62 |
| Mar 04 | US had no President, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended March 3rd. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 05 | Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders. Lincoln received the patent in May 1849. Lincoln is the only US president to own a patent. | Ref: 4 |
| May 22 | Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock, the only president ever granted a patent. | Ref: 4 |
| May 29 | Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 15 | James Knox Polk the 11th US President [1845-1849], dies in Nashville, Tenn at age 53. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 12 | Dolley Madison (Payne) U.S. First Lady, wife of 4th U.S. President James Madison; dies at age 81. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 10 | Actor Edwin Booth, brother of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth, makes first professional theatre appearance in Richard III at Boston Museum. | Ref: 10 |
- 1850
| Feb 01 | Edward Baker "Eddie" Lincoln, second child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, dies in his family home in Springfield, Illinois, at age 3 years, 10 months, after a long illness. (Ref) | |
| Feb 12 | Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | John Calhoun dies at age 68. He was the U.S. Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson [1825-1832]and the first VP to resign office. He became a U.S. Senator. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 09 | Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States [1849-1850], dies in office at the age of 55 after serving only 16 months in office. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 10 | Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th president of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 19 | Richard Johnson 9th U.S. Vice President [1837-1841: under President Martin Van Buren]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 21 | William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, third child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, is born in the family home in Springfield, Illinois. He is named after an uncle, William Wallace. (Ref) | |
- 1851
| Jan 17 | -Thomas Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's father, dies. | |
- 1852
| May 11 | Charles Warren Fairbanks (R) 26th US Vice President under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-09), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | Alton Parker, American politician; opposed Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| May 15 | Louisa Adams (Johnson) wife of 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 29 | Henry Clay ‘The Great Pacificator’: U.S. Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams; three time unsuccessful candidate for president of U.S.: “I would rather be right than president.”; dies at age 75. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 15 | Louisa Adams (Johnson) wife of 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 30 | Future President Rutherford B Hayes marries Lucy Ware Webb in Cincinnati OH. (XDG, p 4A, 12/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 31 | Future President & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry. | Ref: 5 |
- 1853
| Jan 06 | Benny Pierce, son of President and Mrs Franklin Pierce, dies in front of his parents eyes in a railroad accident. (The date is after Pierce's election, but before his inauguration.) (Ref: Klapthor, Margaret Brown, "The First Ladies", ©1995, ISBN 0-912308-59-1) | |
| Mar 04 | William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US Vice President. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, D.C. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 30 | Abigail Fillmore (Powers) U.S. First Lady, wife of 13th President Millard Fillmore; instituted the White House library; dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, fourth child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, is born in the family home in Springfield, Illinois. He is named after Lincoln's father, but he is called "Tad", short for tadpole. (Ref) | |
| Apr 18 | William Rufus DeVane King (D) 13th U.S. Vice President: first VP to have served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; took the only presidential or vice presidential oath ever administered outside of the United States [Havana, Cuba]; dies [a month after taking that oath]. | Ref: 4 |
- 1854
| Mar 14 | Thomas Riley Marshall (D) 28th Vice President (1913-21), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 04 | Honest Abe Lincoln made his first great political speech while attending the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. | Ref: 5 |
- 1855
| Oct 24 | James Sherman, 27th U.S. Vice President [1909-1912], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 05 | Eugene (Victor) Debs politician: founded Social Democratic Party of America; Socialist Party nominee for U.S. President [1904, 1908, 1912, 1920]; is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1856
| Dec 28 | [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Staunton VA, (28th US President-D-1913-21, Nobel 1919), is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1857
| Sep 15 | William Howard Taft, ® 27th U.S. President [1909-1913]; married to Helen Herron [two sons, one daughter]; Yale University law professor; Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1921-30]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1858
| Apr 30 | Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, First Lady to President Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893), is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 16 | In a speech in Springfield IL, Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring "A house divided against itself cannot stand." (XDG, p 4A, 6/16/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 21 | The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was held in Ottawa, Ill. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 08 | Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 27 | Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President [1901-1909]; married to A. Lee, E. Carow [four sons, two daughters]; nickname: TR, Trust Buster; first president to ride in a car, submerge in a submarine and fly in a plane; initiated the National Monument System; died Jan 6, 1919 | Ref: 4 |
- 1860
| Jan 25 | Charles Curtis, American Indian, 31st U.S. Vice President under Herbert Hoover from 1929-1933, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 19 | William Jennings Bryan, politician: member of U.S. Congress, Democratic U.S. presidential nominee in 1896, the ‘silver-tongued orator’at the Scopes trial, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| May 15 | Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| May 16 | Republican convention (Chicago) selects Abraham Lincoln candidate. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL was nominated for the US Presidency by Republican party leaders at a meeting in Chicago. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 15 | Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding first lady, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 15 | Grace Bedell, age 11, of Westfield NY, wrote Abe Lincoln with a suggestion. She urged Lincoln to grow a beard. If he did, she’d try to get her four brothers to vote for him for president. Lincoln won the election in November -- then he grew a beard. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 06 | Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..." is elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 12 | Abraham Lincoln becomes the first republican to be elected President of the United States. Ref | |
| Nov 26 | A newspaper print of newly elected President Abraham Lincoln clearly showed the beginnings of a beard. | Ref: 4 |
- 1861
| Jan 02 | Helen Herron Taft, First Lady to President Robert Taft (1908-1912), is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 31 | (and the 1st) Nancy Hanks Lincoln sees her stepson (Abraham) for the last time when he came to bid her farewell before going to the White House. (Ref) | |
| Feb 11 | President-elect Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln take the train from Spingfield IL to Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | Abraham Lincoln declared President. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | President-elect Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, an assassination plot having been foiled in Baltimore. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 04 | Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; first time US has 5 former Presidents living. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 03 | Lincoln's political rival Stephen A. Douglas dies unexpectedly of acute rheumatism at age 48. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 17 | President Abraham Lincoln witnesses Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 29 | Alice Roosevelt first wife of 26th President of the US Theodore Roosevelt; is born. [She dies 17 years before her husband became President] | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 06 | Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1862
| Jan 18 | The tenth president of the United States, John Tyler, dies in Richmond, Virginia, at age 71. | Ref: 68 |
| Feb 20 | William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, third child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, dies in the White House, possibly from drinking foul water. (Ref) | |
| Jul 24 | The eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, died in Kinderhook, NY at the age of 79. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 14 | Lincoln receives first group of blacks to confer with a US president. | Ref: 5 |
- 1863
| Jan 01 | President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 13 | First midgets enter White House; Mary Todd Lincoln serves tea to General & Mrs. Tom Thumb. | Ref: 10 |
| Dec 02 | Jane (Means Appleton) Pierce First Lady [1853-1857]: wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the U.S.; died Dec 2, 1863 | Ref: 4 |
- 1864
| Feb 09 | Lincoln poses for the photograph which appears on $5 bill. | Ref: 62 |
| Feb 25 | Anna Harrison (Symmes) wife of 9th US President Benjamin Harrison; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 07 | Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president at the Republican convention in Baltimore. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 21 | Frances Cleveland (Folsom) wife of 22nd US President Grover Cleveland; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 29 | Democrats nominate George B. McClellan for president to run against Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln. | |
| Aug 31 | At the Democratic convention in Chicago, General George B. McClellan is nominated for president. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 29 | Sojourner Truth and President Lincoln meet at 8:00 AM in Washington DC and exchange warm greetings. (Claflin, Edward, "Sojourner Truth and the Struggle For Freedom", 1987, ISBN 0-8120-3919-X) | |
| Nov 08 | Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was reelected this day. He defeated Democrat George B. McClellan and carried all but three states, getting 212 of 233 electoral votes with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 233 electoral votes. “I earnestly believe that the consequences of this day’s work will be to the lasting advantage, if not the very salvation, of the country,” Lincoln told supporters. | Ref: 4 |
- 1865
| Mar 04 | Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address. Lincoln says, "With malice toward none; with charity for all…let us strive on to finish the work we are in…to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations". Some of the assassination conspirators, including Booth, are present in Washington for the innaugeration. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 06 | President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Booth and other conspirators meet at Gautier's Restaurant at 252 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to plan the kidnapping of President Lincoln. The plan calls for Lincoln to be taken to Richmond, where he would be held until exchanged for Confederate prisoners-of-war. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 17 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Booth's plan to kidnap Lincoln as he returns from a play at Campbell Hospital on the outskirts of Washington fails when Lincoln changes his plans. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 20 | A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Abraham Lincoln was foiled when Lincoln changed plans and failed to appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, DC. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 06 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) John Surratt and Sarah Slater, a confederate agent, reach Montreal with a ciphered dispatch from Richmond--most likely one approving a plan to kill Lincoln by blowing up the Executive Mansion. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 08 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Booth returns to Washington from New York, where he had met with his Confederate control, and told a friend "What a splendid chance I had to kill the President on the fourth of March [at the innaugeration]." | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 10 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) The Union's capture of Thomas Harney, the Confederate explosives expert assigned the task of mining the Executive Mansion, dooms that Confederate plot. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 11 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Lincoln speaks to a large crowd of ex-slaves and others celebrating the news of the Union victory; urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction. Booth, listening to the speech with Louis Weichmann, resolves that it will be "the last speech" the President ever gives. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 14 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Meanwhile, Lewis Powell (alias Lewis Payne), claiming to have medicine for Secretary of State William H. Seward, enters the Secretary's home. Powell assaults the Secretary's son and tries to stab Secretary Seward in his bed. Three people fight Powell off and he flees into the night. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 14 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Word of a Confederate conspiracy to assassinate government officials reaches Secretary of War Edwin Stanton as he waits anxiously near Lincoln's deathbed. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 14 | John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor, was permitted upstairs at Ford’s Theatre. Thus, he gained access to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s private theatre box as Lincoln watched the performance of Our American Cousin. It was just after 10 p.m. when Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincoln in the head. After shooting the President, Booth leaped to the stage below, shouting, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (“Thus always to tyrants!”, the state motto of Virginia.) He broke his leg in the fall but managed to escape the theatre (which was in Washington, D.C.), mount a horse, and flee to Virginia. Booth was hunted down and shot as he hid in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia. Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. the next day. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 15 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Booth and Powell leave the farm of Dr. Samuel Mudd, where Booth had his broken leg treated and shaved off his mustache. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 15 | President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 17 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) While soldiers question inhabitants of the home of Mary Surratt, a man carrying a pickax knocks on the door. The man turns out to be Lewis Powell. The man claims to be a hired laborer, but Mary Surratt denies hiring him and Powell---along with Surratt and her boarders--is arrested. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 17 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) The same day, authorities tracking down the source of a letter from "Sam" found in Booth's hotel room, arrest Samuel Arnold. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 17 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Michael O'Laughlin, a boyhood friend of Booth, is also arrested. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 19 | Lincoln's funeral is conducted in the East Room of the White House. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 20 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) George Atzerodt, who had taken a room in a hotel occupied by Vice Prsident Johnson on the 14th (and whose room was found to contain weapons and property of Booth), is captured in his bed. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 20 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Secretary of War Stanton offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of Booth, David Herold, and John Surratt. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 21 | Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Authorities arrest Dr. Samuel A. Mudd based on his contact with Booth (treating his broken leg after the assassination and allowing him to stay the night at his farm) and his unsatisfactory answers when questioned. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 25 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Secretary of War Edwin Stanton orders that the heads of the alleged conspirators be kept covered by canvas hoods. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 26 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, is surrounded by federal troops at Garrett's farm near Bowling Green, VA, and killed, at age 27. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 26 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) A man found in Booth's company, David E. Herold, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in the conspiracy. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 27 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Alexander Gardner photographs alleged conspirators as they are imprisoned on the vessels Montauk and Saugus. (Dr. Samuel Mudd and Mary Surratt, held at the Old Capitol Prison, are not photographed.) | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 27 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Lewis Powell attempts to commit suicide by banging his head against a cell wall. His canvas hood is replaced with a padded hood to thwart future similar suicide attempts. | Ref: 87 |
| May 01 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) President Andrew Johnson orders that the Lincoln assassination conspirators be tried by a military commission. | Ref: 87 |
| May 03 | President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield IL. | Ref: 2 |
| May 04 | Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfield, Illinois. | |
| May 09 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) The Military Commission convenes for the first time. | Ref: 87 |
| May 10 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) The conspirators are arraigned before the Military Commission. The Commission also adopts rules that will govern the trial. | Ref: 87 |
| May 12 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Testimony begins in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy trial at the Old Arsenal Building in Washington. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 01 | The country observes a national day of mourning for Lincoln. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 06 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Major General John Hartranft, concluding that the prisoners are suffering too much from their hoods, orders them removed. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 29 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) In secret session, the Commission begins its review of the trial evidence. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 30 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) The Military Commission determines its verdicts and sentences. Four Lincoln assassination conspirators (Herold, Mary Surratt, Powell, and Atzerodt) are sentenced to die, three (O' Laughlin, Arnold, and Mudd) to life terms, and one (Spangler) to a prison term of six years. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 05 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) President Johnson approves the verdicts and sentences of the Military Commission. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 06 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Major General Hartranft tells four prisoners that they will be hanged the next day. Lawyers for Mary Surratt prepare a petition for habeas corpus. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 07 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Judge Wylie of the Supreme Court of the the District of Columbia issues the writ of habeas corpus requested by Surratt's lawyers. Attorney General Speed and President Johnson are informed of the writ's issuance. The President signs an order: "I hereby declare that the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in cases such as this." | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 07 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Shortly before 1:30 in the afternoon in the courtyard of the Old Arsenal Building, with George Atzerodt's last words, "May we meet in another world," the trap of the gallows is sprung and Atzerodt, Mary Surratt, Herold, and Powell are hanged. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 11 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Louis Weichmann signs an affidavit strongly implicating John Surratt, who fled the country, in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 27 | Charles Dawes, 30th US Vice President [under Calvin Collidge: 1925-1929]; awarded Nobel Peace Prize [1925]; songwriter: Melody in A Major aka It’s All in the Game; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 02 | Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th president of the United States (1921-23), is born near Corsica, Ohio. | Ref: 2 |
- 1866
| Feb 22 | Johnson makes a speech denouncing two of the leading radical republicans, Senator Charles Sumner and Representative Thaddeus Stevens. In the speech he refers to the Republicans as "disunionists." | Ref: 87 |
- 1867
| Feb 10 | (day unspecified) Congress passes the Tenure of Office Act prohibiting the President from dismissing any officer confirmed by the Senate without Senate approval. The Act is intended primarily to keep Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, in his post. Stanton, a holdover from the Lincoln cabinet is sympathetic to the causes of the Radical Republicans. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 10 | (day unspecified) The Radical Republicans effect their own plan of reconstruction, again placing the southern states under military rule. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 10 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) (thru Aug 11th) John Surratt, after having been captured in Europe, is tried in a civilian court. The jury is unable to reach a verdict in his case and in late August Surratt is released. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 12 | With the Congress not is session, President Johnson temporarily suspends Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and replaces him with war hero Ulysses S. Grant. (XDG, p. 4A, 8/12/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 23 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Convicted Lincoln assassination conpirator Michael O'Laughlin dies in prison. | Ref: 87 |
- 1868
| Jan 13 | The Senate refuses to concur in the suspension of Edwin Stanton by a vote of 35 to 16. Grant returns his office to Stanton. The President then formally dismisses Stanton as Secretary of War and replaces him with Lorenzo Thomas. | Ref: 87 |
| Feb 24 | Accusing Johnson of violating the tenure of Office Act (prohibiting the President from dismissing any officer confirmed by the Senate without Senate approval), the House approves an impeachment resolution by a vote of 126-47. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 02 | Eleven articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson, 17th US President, were adopted by the House. Trial by the Senate started three days later. | |
| Mar 05 | The Senate trial of Andrew Johnson, 17th US President, begins. The impeachment fell short of the required two-thirds majority by one vote on three of the articles of impeachment May 26, 1868, and no further action was ever taken on the remaining eight. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 13 | The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins in the United States Senate. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 30 | The impeachment trial of President Johnson begins in the Senate. | Ref: 87 |
| May 16 | The Senate votes on the 11th Article of Impeachment against President Johnson and is one vote short (cast by Edmund G. Ross) of the 2/3 majority needed to impeach the President. | Ref: 3 |
| May 20 | Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Another vote is taken in the Senate on the 2nd and 3rd Articles of Impeachment and President Johnson is again acquitted by one vote. The trial is over. | Ref: 3 |
| Jun 01 | James Buchanan, 15th U.S. President [1857-1861]; never married; nickname: Old Buck, dies near Lancaster, PA at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 03 | Hiram S. Grant is elected the 18th president of the United States over Democrat Horatio Seymour, winning the electoral votes of 26 of 34 states and an electoral college majority of 214-80 over his Democratic opponent, Horatio Seymour. But the popular majority was only 306,000 in a total vote of 5,715,000. The newly enfranchised Negroes of the South cast 700,000 votes generally at the bidding of their Republican protectors. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 22 | John Nance Garner "Cactus Jack", Texas, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41, under FDR), is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1869
| Mar 04 | Johnson leaves office after finishing the remainder of his term as President. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 04 | Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 08 | The 14th president of the United States (1853-57), Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, New Hampshire. | Ref: 68 |
- 1870
| Mar 31 | Sojourner Truth and President Grant meet in Washington DC. The exact content of the meeting is unknown, but Sojourner's agenda included thanks and appreciation for the passage of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution the previous day. (Claflin, Edward, "Sojourner Truth and the Struggle For Freedom", 1987, ISBN 0-8120-3919-X) | |
| Apr 02 | Victoria Woodhull is first woman to be nominated for US President. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 06 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) John Surratt begins a public lecture tour in which he provides his account of the assassination conspiracy. | Ref: 87 |
- 1871
| Jul 15 | Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, fourth child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, dies at age 18. (Ref) | |
| Sep 19 | President Lincoln's body was removed to go to its permanent resting place in Springfield, Illinois | Ref: 62 |
- 1872
| May 10 | The first woman nominated to be President of the United States was Victoria Claflin Woodhull. She was chosen for the ballot by the National Woman Suffrage Association in NY City. Ms. Woodhull was not elected; nor has any woman ever been elected to the office of US President. The closest any woman has come to the top seat of the nation since Victoria Woodhull was Geraldine A. Ferraro who was on the Democratic party slate as the Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 04 | Calvin Coolidge, ® 30th US President [1923-1929]; married to Grace Goodhue [two sons]; nickname: Silent Cal; is born in Plymouth, VT. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 03 | Louisville, Kentucky was the meeting place of US Democrats. Their national convention convened and nominated Charles O’Connor for President of the United States. He was the first Catholic to be nominated by his party for the office of President. O’Connor declined the nomination. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 15 | Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, American first lady (1911-1919), is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1873
| Mar 03 | A president's salary was raised from $25,000 to $50,000 per year. | Ref: 62 |
| Dec 30 | Al Smith former governor of NY, 1928 Democratic Party presidential nominee; is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1874
| Mar 08 | Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States (1850-53), dies at age 74, in Buffalo, NY. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 21 | US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 10 | Herbert Hoover ®, 31st US President (1929-1933), is born in West Branch IA. Hoover is the first U.S. President born west of the Mississippi River; first to have a telephone at his desk, is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1875
| Feb 07 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Four years after his release from prison, Edman Spangler dies. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 29 | Lou Henry Hoover, first lady of President Herbert Hoover (1929-33), is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 31 | Andrew Johnson, 17th US President, dies at his daughter's house in Carter Station TN, after suffering a stroke at age 66. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 22 | Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (1873-75), dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
- 1876
| Feb 07 | President Grant's private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 07 | The outcome of the election of 1876 was not known until the week before the inauguration itself. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the greater number of popular votes and lacked only one electoral vote to claim a majority in the electoral college. Twenty disputed electoral votes, however, kept hopes alive for Republican Governor Rutherford B. (Birchard) Hayes of Ohio. When all was said and done, the Electoral college selected Hayes as the 19th President of the United States. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 06 | US Electorial College picks Representative Hayes as President (although Tilden won). | Ref: 5 |
- 1877
| Jan 25 | Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 02 | Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared the 19th President despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 03 | Rutherford B. Hayes, the republican governor of Ohio is elected president, his election confirmed by an electoral commission after disputed election the previous November. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 05 | Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | First easter egg roll at the Capitol grounds, Washington, D.C. President Rutherford B. Hayes rolls. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 24 | Alben W Barkley, Graves County KY, (35th Vice President-D-1949-53), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | President Rutherford B. Hayes became the first U.S. President to celebrate his silver wedding anniversary in the White House. The President and his wife reenacted their marriage ceremony on this, their 25th anniversary (technically, a day late). | Ref: 4 |
- 1878
| Apr 09 | First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 01 | The first telephone is installed in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
- 1879
| Jan 03 | Grace Coolidge (Goodhue) (First Lady: wife of 30th U.S. President, Calvin Coolidge [1923-29]), is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1880
| Jan 12 | Ellen Arthur (Ellen Lewis Herndon) wife of Chester A. Arthur [21st US President]; dies prior to Arthur taking office. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 27 | Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 02 | James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States. During the Civil War, Garfield was a commander at the bloody fight at Chickamauga. | Ref: 2 |
- 1881
| Feb 25 | William Foster Massachusetts, Communist Presidential candidate (1924,28,32), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Eliza Ballou Garfield became the first mother of a U.S. President to live in the executive mansion. She moved into the White House with her son James, the President. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 04 | James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 02 | At 9AM James Garfield, 20th US President, is shot in a Washington DC railroad station by Charles J. Guiteau. He dies 3 months later. (XDG, p 4A, 7/2/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 19 | The 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, dies of wounds inflicted by an assassin at age 49. Chester A. Arthur becomes President. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 20 | Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 14 | Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of President Garfield; he was convicted and hanged the next year | Ref: 70 |
- 1882
| Jan 30 | The 32nd president of the United States (D) (1933-1945), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, NY. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 16 | Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln, dies of a stroke. | Ref: 2 |
- 1883
| Jan 10 | Dr Samuel Mudd, the physician who help John Wilkes Booth, dies. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 10 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Convicted conspirator Dr. Samuel A. Mudd dies. | Ref: 87 |
- 1884
| Feb 12 | Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American politically influential daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 14 | Alice Roosevelt first wife of 26th President of the US Theodore Roosevelt; dies [17 years before her husband became President]. | Ref: 3 |
| May 08 | The 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953), Harry S. Truman, is born near Lamar, Missouri. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 06 | Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 20 | The Equal Rights Party was formed during a convention of suffragists in San Francisco. The convention nominated Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood for president. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 11 | Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and fifth cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt and neice of President Theodore Roosevelt, is born in New York City. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 04 | Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected to his first term as president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 20 | Norman Thomas Marion Ohio, socialist (presidential candidate 1928-48), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1885
| Jan 13 | Schuyler Colfax, 17th U.S. Vice President [1869-1873) under Ulysses S. Grant, dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 13 | Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman first lady (1945-53), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Grover Cleveland inaugrated as first Democratic President since Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 24 | Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President, marries Ellen Louise Axson in Rome GA. (Braeman, John, "Wilson", 1972, ISBN 0-13-960260-7) | |
| Jul 23 | Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies of throat cancer in Mount McGregor, New York, at age 63. (also TWA, 1958) | Ref:77 |
| Oct 29 | George Brinton McClellan, American general and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president in 1864, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 25 | Thomas A Hendricks 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office. | Ref: 5 |
- 1886
| Jun 02 | Grover Cleveland became the first US President to get married in the White House. He exchanged vows with his bride, Florence Folsom. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 19 | William Howard Taft (later the 27th US president) marries Helen Herron. (Ref: Klapthor, Margaret Brown, "The First Ladies", ©1995, ISBN 0-912308-59-1) | |
| Nov 18 | Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, died in NY at age 56. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 21 | Charles F. Adams, U.S. diplomat and public official whose father was John Quincy Adams, dies. | Ref: 68 |
- 1887
| Apr 10 | President Abraham Lincoln is re-buried with his wife in Springfield IL. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 04 | William A Wheeler, (R) 19th U.S. vice-president (1877-81), dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 09 | Alfred M. Landon, Republican governor of Kansas who carried only two states in his overwhelming defeat for the presidency by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1888
| Jun 25 | Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 06 | Joseph P Kennedy financier/diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 07 | Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd American vice president (1941-5); Progressive Party candidate for president (1948), is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 06 | Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-IN) beats incumbant President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more popular votes. | Ref: 5 |
- 1889
| Mar 04 | Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 25 | 1st lady: wife of 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 10 | Julia Tyler (Gardiner) 2nd wife of 10th US President John Tyler (1841-45), dies at age 69. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 06 | Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America [1861-1865]; US Senator and Secretary of War; dies in New Orleans at age 81. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 09 | President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium. | Ref: 5 |
- 1890
| Jul 22 | Rose Kennedy, mother of the 35th President, John Kennedy, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 14 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-1961), is born in Denison, TX. | Ref: 2 |
- 1891
| May 06 | Electrician Irwin H. Hoover began installing the first electrical wiring in the White House. | Ref: 6 |
| Jul 04 | Hannibal Hamlin, 15th U.S. Vice President [under Abraham Lincoln: 1861-1865]; dies at age 81. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 08 | Warren G. Harding marries Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion, OH. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 14 | Sarah Childress Polk first Lady: wife of 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk; dies. | Ref: 68 |
- 1892
| Feb 12 | President Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 18 | Wendell L. (Lewis) Willkie, politician, 1940 Republican presidential candiate, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 23 | The Democratic convention in Chicago nominates former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 25 | Caroline Harrison, wife of the 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 08 | In a rerun of the 1888 U.S. election, it was Harrison against Cleveland. This time, however, former President Grover Cleveland defeated incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, becoming the first -- and only -- chief executive to win non-consecutive terms in the White House. And, Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th Presidents of the United States. | Ref: 4 |
- 1893
| Jan 11 | Benjamin F Butler US General /presidential candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 17 | The 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, dies in Fremont, Ohio, at age 70. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 04 | Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term). | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 09 | Esther Cleveland, daughter of U.S. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1896
| Jul 08 | William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago | Ref: 17 |
| Nov 03 | Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan for the presidency. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 14 | Mamie Doud Eisenhower, First Lady: wife of 34th U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1897
| Mar 04 | William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | First reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) is dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
- 1898
| Aug 15 | Lillian Carter Pres Carter's mom, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1899
| Sep 15 | Milton S Eisenhower Dwight's brother/Pennsylvania State president | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 21 | Vice President Garret A. Hobart, served under President McKinley, dies in Paterson, N.J., at age 55. | Ref: 68 |
| Dec 04 | Webb Hayes, son of President Rutherford Hayes, receives the medal of honor. | Ref: 5 |
- 1900
| Feb 05 | Adlai Stevenson II, Democratic party candidate for US president [1952, 1956]; governor of Illinois, UN representative from U.S. [1961-1965]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 06 | President William McKinley ® is re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 25 | Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's first opponent, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1901
| Mar 04 | William McKinley is inaugurated president for the second time. Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as vice president. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 13 | The 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, dies in Indianapolis at age 67. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 04 | William H. Taft becomes the American governor of the Philippines. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 02 | V.P. Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 06 | President William McKinley is shot while attending a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY, by 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley dies eight days later, the third American president assassinated. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 14 | William McKinley dies of a gunshot wound received on Sep 6th. Theodore Roosevelt moves into the presidency. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 26 | Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 16 | President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 29 | Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of President McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo. | Ref: 2 |
- 1902
| Mar 24 | Thomas E Dewey Ohio, first Catholic Presidential candidate 1944, 1948 (R), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 16 | A cartoon appears in the Washington Star, prompting the Teddy Bear Craze, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip to MS. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 14 | Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady of U.S., wife of 18th President Ulysses S. Grant, dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1904
| Nov 08 | President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President William McKinley. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 29 | President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to his distant cousin Franklin, saying that he approved of Franklin’s engagement to the President’s niece, Eleanor. | Ref: 4 |
- 1905
| Mar 04 | Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in for his second term as president. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 17 | Eleanor Roosevelt, neice of President Theodore Roosevelt, marries her fifth cousin Franklin Roosevelt. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 15 | President Grover Cleveland wrote an article for Ladies Home Journal, joining others in the U.S. who opposed women voters. The president said, “We all know how much further women go than men in their social rivalries and jealousies... sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.” | Ref: 4 |
- 1906
| Feb 17 | Alice Lee Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's eldest daughter, marries Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio in an elaborate White House ceremony. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 21 | John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist, vice-president, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 21 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) The last of the convicted conspirators, Samuel Arnold, dies. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 09 | President Theodore Roosevelt leaves Washington, D.C., for a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official visit outside of the United States. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 14 | Roosevelt becomes first US President to visit a foreign country (Panama). | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. | Ref: 70 |
- 1907
| Jan 01 | President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | Harold Stassen West St Paul MN, (Governor-Republican-MN) perennial presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Ida McKinley (Saxton) First Lady: wife of 25th US President, William McKinley; dies. | Ref: 5 |
- 1908
| Jun 24 | The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 71. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 08 | Nelson (Aldrich) Rockefeller, oil magnate, 41st US Vice President under Gerald Ford [1974-77], Governor of NY [1958-73]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 27 | Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, TX. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 26 | An ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. The phonograph offered buyers free records by both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 03 | William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan. | Ref: 5 |
- 1909
| Jan 01 | Barry Goldwater (Senator-R-AZ, 1953-65, 69- )/Presidential candidate (R) 1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Theodore Roosevelt begins an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. | Ref: 2 |
- 1910
| Feb 11 | Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announce their wedding date--June 20, 1910. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 21 | The U.S. Senate grants ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a pension of $10,000 yearly. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 14 | The Philadelphia Athletics, under manager Connie Mack, played the Washington Senators in what became a most historic game. This game was not only the season opener; but also, the first time a United States President had thrown out the first ball to the Washington Senator's opening day pitcher, Walter Johnson. The president was William Howard Taft. The game was held in Washington, DC and appropriately, the Senators won 3-0. And so began a baseball tradition. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 29 | Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 23 | Elliot Roosevelt son of FDR, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 11 | Theodore Roosevelt becomes first President to fly in airplane for four minutes over St. Louis. | Ref: 10 |
- 1911
| Feb 06 | Ronald Reagan Illinois, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th President (R) (1981-89), is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| May 27 | Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN) 38th Vice President (1965-69), 1969 Presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 12 | Jane Wyatt, Emmy Award-winning actress: Father Knows Best [1957, 1958-59, 1959-60]; Gentleman’s Agreement, Lost Horizon, Amityville 4, is born in Campgaw NJ. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 10 | President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour. | Ref: 2 |
- 1912
| Jan 09 | Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announces that he will run for president if asked. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 16 | Mrs William Howard Taft plants first cherry tree in Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Pat Nixon (Ryan), former U.S. First Lady married to 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon (1969-74), is born in Ely NV. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 27 | First Lady Helen (Nellie) Taft, wife of U.S. President William Howard Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, planted the first two cherry trees in Washington DC. The trees are Yoshino cherries, and are still standing several hundred yards west of the John Paul Jones statue at the south end of 17th Street. | Ref: 4 |
| May 17 | Former Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 07 | Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 14 | Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 30 | James Schoolcraft Sherman, 27th U.S. Vice President [1909-1912], dies at age 57. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 05 | Woodrow Wilson (D) is elected president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 22 | Wife of 36th U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird (Claudia Alta) Johnson is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1913
| Jan 09 | Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, was born in Yorba Linda, CA. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 04 | Woodrow Wilson was sworn as the 28th president of the United States. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 15 | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference just 11 days after his inauguration. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 14 | Gerald R Ford [Leslie King Jr (changed name to Gerald Ford after his adoptive father)], 41st VP (1973-74), 38th pres (R-1974-77), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 25 | Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
- 1914
| Jan 04 | Jane Wyman (Sarah Fulks), St Joseph MO, first Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 14 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the U.S. [1893-1897]; grandfather of U.S. presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson [1952, 1956], dies. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 06 | Ellen Louise Wilson, the first wife of the 28th US president, Woodrow Wilson, dies of Barite's disease at age 54. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 17 | Franklin D Roosevelt Jr son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1915
| Jun 08 | Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over US handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. | Ref: 17 |
| Oct 09 | Woodrow Wilson becomes, who becomes the first president to attend a World Series game, sees Red Sox hurler Rube Foster limits the Phillies to just three hits en route to a 2-1 victory in Game 2 of the Fall Classic. | Ref: 1 |
| Nov 09 | Sargent Shriver Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 18 | President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt at her Washington home. (Braeman, John, "Wilson", 1972, ISBN 0-13-960260-7) | |
- 1916
| Mar 29 | Eugene J McCarthy Watkins MN, (Senator-Democrat-MN, Presidential candidate 1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Suspected conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, John Surratt dies. | Ref: 87 |
| May 29 | The US President’s flag was adopted by executive order. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 01 | Dwight David Eisenhower married Mamie Geneva Doud in Denver CO. It was the same day that Ike was promoted to first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Quite a day for the future U.S. President and his new bride. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 07 | President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, but the race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined, so the results are not known until November 11. | Ref: 2 |
- 1917
| May 19 | Belva Ann Lockwood women’s rights advocate, attorney, first woman formally nominated to run for president of the U.S; dies at age 86. | Ref: 4 |
| May 29 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Brookline MA, (Senator-D-MA), 35th President (1961-1963), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 12 | Secret Service extends protection of president to his family. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | Rosemary Woods Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1918
| Mar 14 | Lucretia Garfield, American first lady (1881), dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 27 | Henry Adams, U.S. historian, son and grandson of the presidents, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 08 | Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Ford (Bloomer) First Lady: wife of 38th U.S. President Gerald R. Ford; founder of the Betty Ford Clinic for substance abuse rehabilitation, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 04 | Charles Warren Fairbanks ®, American politician; 26th vice-president under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-09), dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 27 | Woodrow Wilson receives first passport issued to a U.S. President in office. | Ref: 10 |
| Dec 04 | President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | President Wilson aboard the liner George Washington arrives at Brest, France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office. | Ref: 5 |
- 1919
| Jan 06 | The 26th president of the United States (1901-9), Theodore Roosevelt, dies in Oyster Bay, NY at age 60. | Ref: 94 |
| Apr 03 | President Wilson becomes sick with influenza. | |
| Jun 28 | Elizabeth ‘Bess’ Wallace became Bess Truman when she married the future US President, Harry S Truman in Independence, MO. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 25 | George Wallace, 4-time D-Governor of Alabama; candidate for U.S. President: paralyzed by gunshot wounds as subject of assassination attempt [1972]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 03 | President Wilson sets off on a cross-country tour to appeal directly to the American public regarding US inclusion in the League of Nations. (Braeman, John, "Wilson", 1972, ISBN 0-13-960260-7) | |
| Sep 22 | President Woodrow Wilson abandons his national tour to support the League of Nations when he suffers a case of nervous exhaustion. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 25 | President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo CO, during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 02 | President Wilson suffers a stroke in the White House. He recovers but for five weeks his wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and his doctor keep him isolated and effectively run the country. | Ref: 2 |
- 1920
| Jun 12 | Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. | Ref: 2 |
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| Nov 02 | Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast returns from the Harding-Cox presidential election.Warren G Harding is elected President. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize. | Ref: 5 |
- 1921
| May 17 | President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show in Anaheim. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 06 | (actual date) Nancy Reagan (Anne Robbins-Davis) actress: Hellcats of the Navy, East Side, West Side; former First Lady: married to 40th US President Ronald Reagan, is born. (Also ref: 68) | Ref: 34 |
| Aug 10 | Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 11 | President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. | Ref: 70 |
- 1922
| Feb 08 | President Warren G. Harding had a radio installed in the White House. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 14 | Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 19 | Former Senator (D-SD) and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 08 | Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate (1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1923
| Mar 14 | U.S. President Warren G. Harding became the first Chief Executive to pay taxes and account for his income. Harding’s tax bill amounted to nearly $18,000. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 06 | (artificial date) Nancy Davis Reagan, NY, first Lady (1981-89), is born. | Ref: 34 |
| Jul 08 | Harding becomes first sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla). | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 22 | Robert Dole (Sen R-KS) and 1996 presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 02 | The 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 03 | Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th President by this father at 2AM after the death of Warren G. Harding late the previous day. (XDG, p 4A, 8/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 06 | The first presidential address to be carried on radio was broadcast from Washington, DC. President Calvin Coolidge addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress. | Ref: 3 |
| Dec 23 | James Stockdale admiral (Vietnam)/Ross Perot's 1992 running mate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | In Washington, D.C., during Calvin Coolidge's first Christmas as president, the first electrically_lit Christmas tree appeared in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
- 1924
| Feb 03 | Woodrow Wilson 28th U.S. President [1913-1921]: asked Congress to declare war on Germany [Apr 2, 1917]; president of Princeton University [1902-1910]; Governor of New Jersey [1911-1913]; married to Ellen Axson [three daughters], Edith Galt; nickname: Schoolmaster in Politics, dies at his home in Washington at age 67. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 12 | Calvin Coolidge, known by many as the ‘Silent President’, made the first presidential political speech on radio. The speech originated from New York City and was broadcast on five radio stations. Some five million people tuned in to hear the President speak. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 17 | (Mary) Margaret Truman (Daniel) daughter of 33rd U.S. President Harry S Truman; author: Souvenier, Margaret Truman’s Own Story, Women of Courage, Bess W. Truman, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 22 | President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first president to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. | Ref: 3 |
| Jun 12 | George Herbert Walker Bush ® 43rd VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (1989-1993), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 27 | Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 11 | The first newsreel pictures of US presidential candidates were taken -- in Washington, DC. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 01 | Jimmy Carter 39th U.S. President [1977-1981]; married to Rosalynn Smith [three sons, one daughter]; full name: James Earl Carter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 04 | At Griffith Stadium,Calvin Coolidge becomes the first U.S. President to attend a World Series opener. The Giants edge the hometown Senators in 12 innings, 4-3. | Ref: 1 |
| Nov 04 | Calvin Coolidge is elected 30th president of the United States. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 21 | Florence Kling Harding, wife of the 29th President, Warren G Harding, dies in Marion OH. (Ref: Klapthor, Margaret Brown, "The First Ladies", ©1995, ISBN 0-912308-59-1) | |
- 1925
| Mar 04 | Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Washington DC. The presidential inauguration is broadcast live on 21 radio stations for the very first time. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 08 | Barbara Bush (Pierce) First Lady: wife of 41st President of the US, George Bush, is born in Rye, NY. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 26 | William Jennings Bryan, politician: member of U.S. Congress, Democratic U.S. presidential nominee in 1896, the ‘silver-tongued orator’at the Scopes trial, dies at age 65. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 20 | Robert F. (Francis) Kennedy U.S. Attorney General under brother President John F. Kennedy; U.S. Senator [from New York]; is born in Brookline MA. | Ref: 4 |
- 1926
| May 10 | Alton Parker, American politician; opposed Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 26 | Robert Todd Lincoln, first child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, dies at his summer home - "Hildene" - in Vermont, a few days before his eighty-third birthday. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 20 | Eugene (Victor) Debs politician: founded Social Democratic Party of America; Socialist Party nominee for U.S. President [1904, 1908, 1912, 1920]; dies at age 70. | Ref: 68 |
- 1927
| Feb 24 | Mark Lane attorney, author: Rush to Judgment, Eyewitness Chicago; conspiracy theorist: the Kennedy assassination, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 10 | Victoria Clafin Woodhull Martin, first American woman to run for US President, American women's rights advocate, dies. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 18 | Rosalynn Carter (Smith) First Lady: wife of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1928
| Jan 05 | Walter ‘Fritz’ Mondale, (Sen-D-MN)/Vice President [1977-81); Democratic presidential nominee [1984], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 11 | Ethel [Skakel] Kennedy Chicago IL, wife of Bobby, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 14 | Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 15 | Republicans, convening in Kansas City, name Herbert Hoover their candidate for President. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 28 | NY Governor Alfred E. Smith was nominated for president at the Democratic national convention in Houston. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 22 | Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 06 | In a first, the results of Herbert Hoover's election victory over Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric sign outside the New York Times building. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 29 | Paul Simon (Sen-D-Ill), presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 11 | Police in Buenos Aires thwart an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover. | Ref: 70 |
- 1929
| Mar 04 | Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes first native American Vice President. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | First telephone installed in White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 28 | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis First Lady: wife of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy; wife of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; editor: Doubleday Publishing; is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 07 | Ruth Carter-Stapleton Plains Ga, first sister/evangelist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 04 | Thomas Eagleton (Sen-D-Mo, Dem VP candidate 1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1930
| Feb 03 | (US Supreme Court Justice) U.S. President Herbert Hoover appointed Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, replacing former US President William Howard Taft, who resigned for health reasons. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 08 | The 27th president of the United States and Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, dies in Washington at age 72. (TWA, 2002) | Ref: 95 |
| Mar 11 | Former President and US Chief Justice William Taft becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 27 | H. Ross Perot billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, U.S. presidential hopeful [1992, 1996] | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 08 | Joan Mondale (Adams) wife of 42nd US Vice-President Walter ‘Fritz’ Mondale | Ref: 4 |
- 1932
| Jan 23 | New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 22 | Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (Senator-D-MA, 1962- ), brother of John F. Kennedy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 16 | President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis were renominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 01 | NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 02 | Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 08 | NY Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated incumbent President Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt captured 22,821,857 votes to incumbent President Hoover’s 15,761,841 and 472 Electoral College votes to 59. | Ref: 4 |
- 1933
| Jan 05 | The 30th president of the United States [1923-1929], Calvin Coolidge, dies in Northampton, Massachusetts, at age 60. | Ref: 94 |
| Feb 15 | In Miami, Joseph Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin Roosevelt instead killing Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. | Ref: 52 |
| Feb 15 | Anton J Cermak (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami during an attempt on FDR's life. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 03 | Princess Radziwill (Caroline Lee Bouvier), sister of U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy [Onassis], is born in New York, NY. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 04 | FDR inaugrated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | Eight days after he was inaugurated, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation. It was the first of what were called Roosevelt’s famous Fireside Chats. The name, incidentally, was coined by newsman, Robert Trout. He thought that the President sounded as if he was sitting with us in living rooms all over the nation next to a roaring fire, just telling it like it was. These frequent, soothing, down-to-earth talks helped bolster President Roosevelt’s enormous popularity for four terms in office, making him, many say, the greatest President of the century, if not of all time. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 03 | First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt informed newspaper reporters that beer would be served at the White House. This followed the March 22 legislation legalizing ‘3.2’ beer. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 02 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House. Roosevelt got plenty of use out of the pool, considering that he was the only President to be elected four times. He won election over Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon, Wendell Wilkie and Thomas E. Dewey. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 03 | Michael Dukakis politician: Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Presidential nominee [1988], is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1934
| Jul 10 | First sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 11 | President Franklin Roosevelt becomes the first US President to sail through the Panama Canal. (XDG, p 4A, 7/11/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 17 | Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird." | Ref: 70 |
- 1935
| Feb 22 | All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Franklin Roosevelt's sleep. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 26 | Geraldine Ferraro, 1st woman to be nominated for vice president of the U.S. by a major political party (the Democratics in 1984), is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
- 1936
| Feb 07 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 08 | Charles Curtis, American Indian, 31st U.S. Vice President under Herbert Hoover from 1929-1933, dies at age 76. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 05 | Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted Kennedy, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Sep 29 | Radio used for the 1st time for a presidential campaign. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 03 | President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R). | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 28 | Gary Hart (Gary Warren Hartpence) former U.S. Senator from Colorado, U.S. presidential candidate [1984], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 26 | Kitty Dukakis first lady of Massachusetts/wife of Michael (Governor-MA, Presidential Candidate), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1937
| Jan 20 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to be inaugurated on January 20th. The 20th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution set the date, officially, for the swearing in of the President and Vice President. The amendment was ratified by Congress in 1933. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 29 | Billy Carter, brother of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, is born in Plains GA. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 02 | Ronald Reagan, just 26 years old, made his acting debut with the Warner Brothers release of "Love is in the Air". | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 02 | I’d Rather Be Right opened in NY City. The humorous play about the U.S. presidency satirized the high office as it related to Franklin Roosevelt. | Ref: 4 |
- 1938
| Dec 04 | Andre Marrou Libertarian presidential candidate (1992), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1939
| Apr 30 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers the opening address for the 1939 World's Fair and becomes the first American president to appear on TV. NBC televises the event to some 200 TV sets within a 40-mile radius; NBC began regular broadcasting. | Ref: 25 |
| Jun 26 | Charles Robb (Sen-D-Va)/husband of Lynda Bird Johnson, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 18 | Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1940
| Jun 21 | Richard M. Nixon married Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan this day. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 24 | TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 18 | The Democratic national convention in Chicago nominated President Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office. (XDG, p 4A, 7/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 26 | Mary Jo Kopechne Ted Kennedy's d(r)iving buddy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 01 | The first book written by 23-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy was published. It was titled, Why England Slept. Later, Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage would become a best-seller for the man who would become the United States’ 35th President. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 05 | President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office, beating Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 06 | Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected President of the United States, defeating Republican Wendell L. Willkie (by nearly 5 million votes). | Ref: 4 |
- 1941
| Jan 04 | Maureen Reagan, first daughter (of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 06 | Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Four Freedoms" speech in which he spoke of freedom of speech, worship, from want and from fear. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | Dick Cheney (Representative-R-WY/George Bush's secretary of defense 1989-93/Vice President 2001- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 08 | Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, founder: Rainbow Coalition; U.S. presidential candidate, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1942
| Jan 15 | In his famous 'Green Light letter', President Franklin D. Roosevelt responds to Commissioner Landis's query of playing baseball in the wake of second World War. FDR states he believes playing the sport would be good for Americans and encourages the owners to have more games at night to give war workers an opportunity to attend games. | Ref: 1 |
| Feb 24 | Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), and the first Jewish politician to run an a national ticket (vice-president in 2000), is born. (USA Today, p 10A, 1/14/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Nov 07 | First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French. | Ref: 5 |
- 1943
| Jan 10 | 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. He flew from Miami, Florida to French Morocco. | Ref: 4 |
| May 22 | Helen Taft first Lady: wife of 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft (1908-1912); dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 10 | FDR becomes first US president to visit a foreign country during wartime. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 02 | A group of 15 U.S. PT-boats attempt to block Japanese convoys south of Kolombangra Island in the Solomon Islands. PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, is rammed and sunk by the Japanese Cruiser AMAGIRI, killing two and badly injuring others. The crew survives as Kennedy aids one badly injured man by towing him to a nearby atoll. | Ref: 70 |
- 1944
| Jan 07 | Lou (Henry) Hoover, wife of 31st U.S. President Herbert Hoover; dies in New York City NY. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 12 | Wendell Wilkie (R) enters the American presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 19 | Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 06 | Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 23 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt's last fireside chat | Ref: 62 |
| Jul 20 | President Roosevelt is nominated for a fourth term by Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 21 | Harry S Truman accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for vice president of the U.S. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected for a fourth term that year -- with Truman as his VP. On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt died and Truman became president. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 12 | Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 02 | During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 04 | Al Smith former governor of NY, 1928 Democratic Party presidential nominee; dies. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 08 | Wendell L. (Lewis) Willkie, politician, 1940 Republican presidential candiate, dies at age 52. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 07 | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey. F.D.R. was the only President to be elected for more than two terms; he was elected four times with three different Vice Presidents. He died in office on April 12, 1945, after serving 53 days of his fourth term. Vice President Harry Truman filled the remainder of the term and was elected President in 1948. | Ref: 4 |
- 1945
| Jan 06 | Future president George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 20 | FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd US President. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 63 in Warm Springs, Ga; Harry S. Truman assumes the office. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 15 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt is buried on the grounds of his Hyde Park home. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 16 | In his first speech to Congress, President Harry S. Truman pledged to carry out the war and peace policies of his late predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. | Ref: 70 |
- 1946
| Jan 30 | First issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | Tricia Nixon (Cox) daughter of 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 18 | Michael Reagan talk show host, Ronald's son, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 06 | George W. (Walker) Bush 43rd President of the United States [2000- ]; married to Laura Welch Bush [twin daughters: Barbara and Jenna]; governor of Texas [1995-2000]; managing partner of Texas Rangers baseball club; son of 41st U.S. President [1989-1993] George [Herbert Walker] Bush, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 19 | William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd US President, is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 05 | John F. Kennedy, age 29, began his political career by getting elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (D-MA). | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 21 | Harry Truman becomes first US President to travel in a submerged sub. | Ref: 5 |
- 1947
| Feb 04 | J Danforth Quayle (Senator-R-IN)/(44th Vice-President-R 1989-93 under President George Bush), is born in Indianapolis IN. (TWA, 1994) | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 01 | David Eisenhower grandson of Pres Dwight, married Julie Nixon, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 02 | Lucy Baines Johnson daughter of 36th US President Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 23 | Margaret Truman, daughter of U.S. President Harry S Truman, presented her first public concert. Margaret sang before 15,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 05 | The first U.S. president to make use of television addressed the nation from the White House. ‘Give ’Em Hell’ Harry Truman accomplished the feat. In this speech, Truman requested that the American people not eat meat on Tuesdays, nor poultry on Thursdays, to save on feed grains to help the starving in Europe. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 26 | Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1st Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 29 | Former first lady Frances Cleveland Preston died in Baltimore at age 83. | Ref: 68 |
- 1948
| Mar 31 | Albert Gore Jr Washington DC, (Senator-Democrat-TN, 1985-92)/45th US Vice President to President William J. Clinton (1993-2001), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Mar 31 | Dwight David Eisenhower II, lawyer, author: Eisenhower at War; grandson of 34th U.S. President [Dwight D. Eisenhower]; married Julie Nixon, daughter of 37th U.S. President [Richard Nixon], is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 10 | General Dwight D. Eisenhower stood by an earlier newspaper report in which he said that a professional soldier should not seek high political office. It was only four years later that Ike would find himself in the highest political office in the land -- that of President of the United States. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 24 | Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 05 | Julie Nixon Eisenhower Wash DC, daughter of Richard Milhaus Nixon, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 15 | President Harry Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia; his running mate, Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, was nominated by acclamation. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 17 | Southern Democrats opposed to the nomination of President Harry S. Truman met in Birmingham, Ala., to endorse South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 23 | Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 31 | President Harry S. Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 19 | Tipper (Mary) Gore (Aitcheson) author: Raising PG Kids in an X-rated Society; wife of US Vice President Al Gore, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 14 | Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 30 | (Long Island) Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, wife of the 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt, dies in Oyster Bay, NY at age 87.(Ref: Klapthor, Margaret Brown, "The First Ladies", ©1995, ISBN 0-912308-59-1) | |
| Nov 02 | The Chicago Daily Tribune prints on the front-page "Dewey Defeats Truman" articles before the final results were in. In fact, Truman defeated Dewey by 2.2 million popular votes and 114 electoral votes. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 18 | Alben W. Barkley married Elizabeth J. Rucker in St. Louis. It was the first time a U.S. Vice President married while in office. | Ref: 4 |
- 1949
| Jan 05 | In his State of the Union address, President Truman labeled his administration the "Fair Deal." | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance added for each year in office. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 21 | First inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman). | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 28 | Marilyn Quayle wife of vice president Dan Quayle, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | Marilyn Quayle (Tucker), wife of 44th Vice-President of the US Dan Quayle, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 02 | Alben W. Barkley, the Vice President of the United States under President Harry S Truman, wrote a letter that made reference to his office as the Veep. The name stuck. Alben W. Barkley was forevermore referred to as the Veep. And ever since, it has been used as the common expression for vice presidents, whether in government or business. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 18 | Alben W. Barkley married Jane Rucker Hadley in St. Louis. It was the first time a U.S. Vice President married while in office. | Ref: 4 |
- 1950
| Mar 14 | Michael Ford son of President Gerald & Betty Ford, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | ‘Chip’ James Earl Carter III son of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Roslyn Carter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 01 | The White House is fired upon by Oscar Collazo & Griselo Torresola, two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement attempting to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. Truman was unhurt. Torresola was killed, as was Pvt Leslie Coffilt. Collazo was convicted of the murder of Torresola on March 7, 1951. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 19 | US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe. | Ref: 26 |
- 1951
| Apr 23 | Charles Dawes 30th US Vice President [under Calvin Collidge: 1925-1929]; awarded Nobel Peace Prize [1925]; songwriter: Melody in A Major aka It’s All in the Game; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1952
| Feb 08 | Nancy Lord Libertarian Vice-President candidate (1992), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | President Harry Truman dedicated the Courier, the first seagoing radio broadcasting station, in ceremonies in Washington, DC. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 04 | Actors Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in North Hollywood CA. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 29 | President Harry Truman removes himself from the presidential race. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 08 | President Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize the nation's steel mills to avert a strike. The act was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court on 2 June. (XDG, p 6A, 4/08/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 11 | The Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 26 | Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; John J. Sparkman was nominated for vice president. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 23 | Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the "Checkers" speech as he refuted allegations of improper campaign financing. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 22 | Patti Davis aka Patricia Ann Reagan, first daughter (House of Secrets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 24 | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in Detroit, delivered his famous speech about Korea. He promised to go to Korea and seek “an early settlement to the war” if elected President. He was -- and he did. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 04 | The Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard M. Nixon ticket won a sweeping (55%-44%) victory over Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson and running-mate John J. Sparkman. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the U.S. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 29 | President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | Keeping his campaign promise, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in Korea to promote a settlement to end hostilities in that war-ravaged country. | Ref: 4 |
- 1953
| Jan 15 | President Harry S Truman becomes the first U.S. President to use radio and television to say farewell as he left office. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 20 | President Eisenhower and Vice-President Nixon take their oaths of office. This is the first live coast-to-coast inaguration address and the first television program transmitted from the US into Canada. (XDG, p 4A, 1/20/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 11 | Presidential son and brother, Jeb Bush (Gov-R-FL) is born in Houston TX. (TWA, 1994) | Ref: 95 |
| Feb 13 | Lyndon Johnson becomes the youngest Democratic Leader in the history of the US Senate. (XDG, p 4A, 2/13/2001) | Ref: 83 |
| Apr 05 | In Washington, D.C., President Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated the Presidential Prayer Breakfast. (Its name was later changed to the Annual National Prayer Breakfast.). | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 24 | John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce their engagement. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 12 | The opening scene of Camelot is staged. 24-year-old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier wed the 36-year-old U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, future U.S. President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Newport, RI. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 16 | First White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower & 161 reporters) | Ref: 5 |
- 1954
| Jan 17 | Robert F Kennedy Jr attorney (Natural Resources Defense Council), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press". | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | Ronald Reagan makes hit Las Vegas debut singing, dancing and pratfalls too. | Ref: 10 |
| Nov 24 | Air Force One, the 1st US Presidential airplane, christened. | Ref: 5 |
- 1955
| Jan 19 | A presidential news conference was filmed for television for the first time, with permission from President Dwight D. Eisenhower. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 02 | First Presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded President Reagan in 1981, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 07 | First President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower). | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 22 | U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C. It was the first time that a Vice President had carried out this task. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 24 | President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack while on vacation in Denver. | Ref: 5 |
- 1956
| Feb 29 | In a nationally broadcast speech, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced he would seek a second term. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | Alben W Barkley Graves County KY, (35th Vice President-D-1949-53), dies at age 78. | Ref: 4 |
| May 16 | Kraft Theatre presents an act from John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage". | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Steven (Meigs) Ford, actor: When Harry Met Sally, Body Count, Eraser, Contact, Armageddon; son of former U.S. President Gerald R. and Betty Ford, is born in Grand Rapids MI. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 16 | Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 22 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 06 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his VP, Richard M. Nixon, were reelected, as they defeated Democrats Adlai E. Stevenson and his running mate, Estes Kefauver (by some 9.5 million votes). The campaign theme had been expanded from “I Like Ike” (used in 1952) to “I Like Ike, Peace & Prosperity”. | Ref: 4 |
- 1957
| Jan 08 | Grace Coolidge (Goodhue) First Lady: wife of 30th U.S. President Calvin Coolidge [1923-29]; dies. | Ref: 68 |
| May 06 | Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 06 | Harry S Truman Library established in Independence, Missouri. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 08 | Grace Coolidge (Goodhue) First Lady: wife of 30th U.S. President Calvin Coolidge [1923-29]; dies at age 78. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 12 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes first president to fly in a helicopter. | Ref: 10 |
| Nov 25 | President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 26 | President Eisenhower suffers a minor stroke. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 27 | Caroline (Bouvier) Kennedy former First Daughter: daughter of 35th President of U.S. John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy | Ref: 4 |
- 1958
| Apr 28 | Vice President Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a goodwill tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Vice President Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru. | Ref: 70 |
| May 13 | Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. | Ref: 70 |
| May 20 | Ronald Prescott Reagan dancer; talk show host; son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 25 | Pensions to former U.S. Presidents go into effect. | |
| Nov 23 | Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared together in the GE Theatre production of A Turkey for the President. | Ref: 4 |
- 1959
| Jul 24 | During a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon engaged in a "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a US exhibition. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 04 | William Kennedy Smith Kennedy accused of rape in Florida (1991), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 31 | Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 21 | Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet | Ref: 5 |
- 1960
| Jan 02 | Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 29 | JFK makes "missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 13 | John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Los Angeles. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 15 | John F. Kennedy accepts the Democratic nomination for president. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 27 | Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 28 | Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 12 | Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed the issue of his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Protestant group in Houston, "I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me." | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 26 | The first of the presidential debates between hopefuls Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place. The debate, moderated by Howard K. Smith, reached more than 69 million people via TV and another 17 million on radio. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 07 | Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and his Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon hold the second of their broadcast debates. (XDG, p 4A, 10/7/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 13 | Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, CA., and Kennedy in NY. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 21 | The fourth -- and last -- debate preceding the presidential election between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon is televised from New York City. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 08 | John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 25 | John F. Kennedy Jr. ‘John-John’; attorney; cofounder/editor: George magazine; son of U.S. President John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy; killed in plane crash [w/wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette], is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1961
| Jan 17 | Eisenhower allegedly orders the assassination of Congo's Lumumba. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 17 | In his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex." | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 20 | Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States; "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do…”. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 25 | John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news conference from Washington, DC. Kennedy’s quick wit made him “an immediate sensation,” according to reporters gathered at the scene. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 26 | President John F. Kennedy appointed Dr. Janet G. Travell (Mrs. John Powell) to the post of personal physician to the President. Dr. Travell was the first woman to hold that post. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 24 | President John Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 30 | Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 12 | The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made. CBS presented a three-hour discussion with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Reportedly, 11 hours of film were used and later, edited to the final print. The interviewer was Walter Cronkite. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 15 | JFK visits Puerto Rico. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, American first lady (1911-1919), dies at age 89. | Ref: 70 |
- 1962
| Jan 21 | JFK arrives in Uruguay. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts the first White House tour on TV. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 24 | Joseph Kennedy II (Rep-D-Mass), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 06 | Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA). | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 06 | Richard M. Nixon lost the CA election for governor to Edmund Brown. Nixon blamed the news media for his loss and promised, “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 07 | Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of CA, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 07 | Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and fifth cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt and neice of President Theodore Roosevelt, dies at 78 in NYC. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 10 | Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 19 | For the first time, a jazz concert was presented at the White House. Jazz had previously been served as background music only. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 15 | The first record album to poke fun at a U.S. President became the #1 LP in the country. Vaughn Meader’s The First Family made the humorist a household word. The album stayed at #1 for three months. | Ref: 4 |
- 1963
| Jan 08 | President John F. Kennedy attends the unveiling of the Mona Lisa in America's National Gallery of Art. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 02 | US President John F Kennedy meets with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. It is the first meeting between a US president and a pope. (XDG, p 4A, 7/2/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 07 | Jackie Kennedy becomes first, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 06 | Laura Welch, (later Laura Bush, wife of President George W. Bush) was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. when she ran a stop sign and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Douglas was killed. Welch and a passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a hospitaland treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland [TX] Reporter-Telegram. (Ref: JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press) | |
| Nov 22 | John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, TX ( by Lee Harvey Oswald ?? ). (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 22 | President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the FBI to investigate the assassination of JFK. At that time the FBI had no statutory authority to investigate presidential assassinations. Jurisdictional conflict between federal, state and local authorities created confusion in the investigation of the case. | Ref: 14 |
| Nov 23 | President Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President Kennedy. | Ref: 64 |
| Nov 23 | JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 24 | Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused gunman in the assassination of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 25 | The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 29 | President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 12 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Memorial Album became the fastest-selling record of all time when 4 million copies of the disk, each selling for 99 cents, were sold in six days -- between December 7-12. The memorial tribute was recorded November 22, the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 22 | An official 30-day mourning period following the assassination of President Kennedy came to an end. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | New York's Idlewild Airport is renamed JFK Airport in honor of the murdered President Kennedy. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 30 | Congress authorizes the Kennedy half dollar. | Ref: 5 |
- 1964
| Jan 03 | Barry Goldwater announced that he was a candidate for the U.S. Presidency. Later that year he lost ... big time! Lyndon B. Johnson: 43,126,506; Goldwater: 27,176,799. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 08 | President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 14 | Jacqueline Kennedy's first public appearance (TV) since assassination. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | A hootenanny was held for the first time at the White House, as the New Christy Minstrels entertained President and Lady Bird Johnson, as well as Italy’s President. | Ref: 4 |
| Jan 27 | Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-ME) tries for Republican Presidential bid. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, the previous November. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 15 | Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 16 | In accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 26 | President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 27 | The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 01 | FCC (Federal Communications Commission) rules that all presidential candidates must get equal time. | Ref: 10 |
| Oct 20 | Herbert (Clark) Hoover, 31st US President, dies in New York at age 90. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 03 | Robert Kennedy, brother of the slain president, is elected as a senator from New York. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 03 | For the first time, residents of the District of Columbia were permitted to vote in a presidential election. The ratification of the 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (in 1961) gave Washington, D.C. citizens the right to vote for President and Vice President of the United States (not for members of Congress, however). Before that (since 1936), D.C. residents had voted only for party officials and delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 03 | President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeated Republican challenger Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 22 | Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 27 | Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-ME) tries for Republican Presidential bid. | Ref: 5 |
- 1965
| Jan 04 | President Johnson outlined the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 10 | A quote, often used later by others, was first stated by Hubert H. Humphrey. He said, “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.” Humphrey was a noted and beloved U.S. Senator from Minnesota and a Vice-President in the Lyndon Johnson administration. He ran for the Presidency but lost to Richard M. Nixon. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 14 | Adlai Stevenson II, Democratic party candidate for US president [1952, 1956]; governor of Illinois, UN representative from U.S. [1961-1965]; dies in London at age 65. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 18 | Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd American vice president (1941-5); Progressive Party candidate for president (1948), dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
- 1966
| Jan 07 | Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, model/wife of John Kennedy Jr, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 19 | Robert F. Kennedy suggests the United States offer the Vietcong a role in governing South Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 08 | Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of CA. | Ref: 5 |
- 1967
| Jan 03 | Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, dies in a hospital of apparently natural causes. | Ref: 3 |
| Mar 14 | John F. Kennedy's body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one in Arlington Cemetery. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 19 | Amy Carter, First Daughter: daughter of 39th U.S. President Jimmy and Roselyn Carter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 07 | John Nance Garner "Cactus Jack", Texas, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41, under FDR), dies at age 98. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 30 | Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 09 | Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Lyndon B Johnson meets Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. | Ref: 5 |
- 1968
| Jan 18 | Singer Eartha Kitt made headlines, as she got into a now-famous confrontation with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson -- wife of the President of the United States -- at a White House luncheon to discuss urban crime. Ms. Kitt told Lady Bird (the First Lady) that American youth were rebelling against the war in Vietnam, linking the crime rate with the war escalation. She had a lot to say and it definitely was not, C’est Si Bon. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 01 | Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars) | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | President Johnson stuns the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 05 | Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated after claiming victory in CA's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested. Kennedy dies the next day. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jun 06 | Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 07 | Sirhan Sirhan is indicted for the Bobby Kennedy assassination. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 08 | Richard Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. Later that day, Nixon chose Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to be his running mate. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 26 | "Police Riots" incited by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley underscore the Democratic National Convention. | |
| Aug 28 | Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 16 | Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in". | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 20 | Former first lady Jaqueline Kennedy, 39, marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, 68, on Greek island of Skorpios. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 05 | Richard Nixon narrowly defeats Hubert Humphrey in the presidential election. Many blame Humphrey's defeat on the rioting and division at the Democratic Convention. | Ref: 87 |
| Dec 19 | Norman Thomas, American social reformer; frequent Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 22 | Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower. | Ref: 5 |
- 1969
| Jan 06 | Standing outside a hall prior to a Lions Club meeting in Leary GA, future President Jimmy Carter spots a UFO at about 7:30PM. About 10 other members witnessed the sighting which was later attributed to "the planet Venus". | Ref: 34 |
| Jan 07 | US Congress doubles presidential salary. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | A Los Angeles court refuses Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan's request to be executed. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 03 | Sirhan Sirhan testifies in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 20 | Senator Edward Kennedy calls on the United States to close all bases in Taiwan. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 28 | Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th President/General (WWII), dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington DC at age 78. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | A jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment. | Ref: 70 |
| May 21 | Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 29 | First Jewish worship service at White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 18 | Around midnight, Senator Edward M. Kennedy crashes his car off the Chappaquidick Island Bridge, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. Also | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 19 | Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 18 | Joseph P. Kennedy US Ambassador to Great Britain; father of US President John F. Kennedy, Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and US Attorney General Robert Kennedy; dies at age 81. | Ref: 68 |
- 1970
| Dec 31 | Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin. | Ref: 5 |
- 1971
| Jan 25 | Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar, | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Thomas E Dewey, Governor of New York (1943-55), US Presidential candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 12 | Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden. | Ref: 5 |
- 1972
| Feb 21 | Richard Nixon arrives in Beijing, China, becoming the first U.S. president to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 15 | Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Ref: 5 |
| May 22 | The first U.S. president to visit Moscow did so on this day. President Richard Nixon met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 10 | Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern). | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 14 | George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Miami Beach. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 30 | Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, withdrew from the ticket with presidential candidate George McGovern following disclosure that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment for depression. Eagleton was replaced by Sargent Shriver, who, incidentally, was the only Democratic vice-presidential nominee who did not serve in Congress at any point in his or her career. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 31 | Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, withdrew from the ticket with presidential candidate George McGovern following disclosure that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment for depression. Eagleton was replaced by Sargent Shriver, who, incidentally, was the only Democratic vice-presidential nominee who did not serve in Congress at any point in his or her career. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 22 | The Republican party renominated Richard M. Nixon (President of US) and Spiro T. Agnew (Vice President) in Miami, FL. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 23 | Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) nominates Vice President Spiro T Agnew for a second term, but not unanimously; one vote goes to NBC newsman David Brinkley). | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 07 | U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew were reelected in a landslide victory (60.7% to 37.5%) over Democrats George McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver). | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 26 | The 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, MO at age 88. | Ref: 68 |
- 1973
| Jan 22 | Lyndon B Johnson, 36th US President (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at age 64. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Feb 07 | Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 08 | Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland and vowed not to resign. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 26 | David Eisenhower wrote his final sports column for the Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper. The article was about the Philadelphia Phillies. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 10 | Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President. Agnew was forced to resign after a Justice Dept. investigation uncovered evidence of corruption during his years in Maryland politics; his alleged acceptance of bribes overlapped with his tenure as Vice President. He pleaded no contest to the charge of federal income tax evasion. He was sentenced to three years' probation and fined $10,000; and he was disbarred in 1974 by the Maryland court of appeals. (XDG, p 4A, 10/10/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 10 | President Richard Nixon names Gerald Ford as the new vice president. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 27 | The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 06 | Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected Vice-President, succeeds Spiro T Agnew. | Ref: 5 |
- 1974
| Jan 30 | In his State of the Union Address, President Nixon says, "Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States willnot be dependent on any other country for the energy we need…". (Time, p 38, 7/21/2003) | |
| Sep 28 | First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 19 | Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States. | Ref: 70 |
- 1975
| Jan 15 | President Ford announces a plan that includes 20 major, new synthetic fuel plants "… that make us invulnerable to cutoffs of foreign oil… by the end of the century". (Time, p 38, 7/21/2003) | |
| Jul 08 | President Ford announces he would seek the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1976. (XDG, p 4A, 7/8/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 05 | President Ford escapes an assassination attempt by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, CA. (XDG, p 4A, 9//5/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 22 | Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 11 | William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham tied the knot in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Bill was 29 and Hillary was 27 years old. Later, they became well known -- as U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 14 | President Ford escaped injury when his limousine was hit broadside by a car in Hartford, Conn | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 26 | A federal jury in Sacramento CA finds Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford. Fromme is now serving a life prison sentence. (Xenia Daily Gazette, p 4A, 11/26/2000) | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | US President Gerald Ford visits China People's Republic. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | Sara Jane Moore pleaded guilty to a charge of trying to kill President Ford in San Francisco the previous September. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 17 | A federal jury in Sacramento, California, sentences Lynette Alice Fromme, also known as "Squeaky" Fromme, to life in prison for her attempted shooting of President Gerald R. Ford. | Ref: 3 |
- 1976
| Jan 15 | Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald Ford in San Francisco. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 30 | George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977). | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 08 | New York Bar Association expels Richard Nixon. | Ref: 10 |
| Jul 14 | Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 19 | President Gerald R Ford wins the Republican presidential nomination at the Kansas City convention. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 20 | Playboy magazine released an interview in which Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter admitted he'd "looked on a lot of women with lust." | Ref: 5 |
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| Oct 06 | In his second debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded that he had misspoken. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 15 | In the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 02 | Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War. | Ref: 70 |
- 1977
| Jan 20 | President Jimmy Carter is sworn in and then surprises the nation as he walks from the U.S. Capitol to the White House. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 05 | President Jimmy Carter joined CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite for the first ever “Dial-a-President” radio talk show. It was carried on 260 CBS stations, with the President answering a variety of questions from folks across the United States. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 12 | Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 24 | IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 25 | LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | Carter holds first news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw). | Ref: 5 |
- 1978
| Jan 13 | Hubert H. Humphrey, American politician; (Sen D-MN) and 38th vice-president of the US, dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66 of bladder cancer. | Ref: 68 |
| Jul 01 | Former Pres Nixon makes first public speech since resigning in 1974. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 18 | First daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance. | Ref: 5 |
- 1979
| Jan 10 | First brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Nelson (Aldrich) Rockefeller, oil magnate, US Vice President under Gerald Ford [1974-77], Governor of NY [1958-73]; dies at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 15 | President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech in which he lamented what he called a "crisis of confidence" in America. Though he didn't use the word, it became known as the "malaise" speech. "I am setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never." | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 30 | Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 20 | The John F Kennedy Library is dedicated in Boston. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 01 | Mamie Doud Eisenhower, First Lady: wife of 34th U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, dies in Washington DC at age 82. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 13 | Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President. | Ref: 5 |
- 1980
| Feb 20 | Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American politically influential daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, dies at age 96. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Chelsea Victoria Clinton, daughter of 42nd U.S. President William Clinton and first Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, is born. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 03 | Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 12 | President Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 25 | Esther Cleveland, daughter of U.S. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House, dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 16 | Former CA Governor Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 17 | Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 23 | Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 14 | President Carter and Vice President Mondale are nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York. (XDG p 4A, 8/14/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 14 | Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promised that, if elected, he would name a woman to the US Supreme Court. (He later nominated Judge Sandra Day O'Connor of Arizona.) | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 28 | President Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan faced off in a nationally broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland. | Ref: 6 |
| Nov 04 | Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th president of the United States over President Jimmy Carter by a wide margin. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 24 | Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri. | Ref: 5 |
- 1981
| Jan 20 | Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president at the same time 52 American hostages are released from their captors in Tehran, Iran after 444 days. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 23 | First Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente CA). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | President Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington D.C. hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a police officer. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 01 | CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | President Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 25 | Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28). | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 15 | Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in the much publicized seduction scene of The Young and the Restless on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy, the macho maverick. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 05 | The federal government began firing air traffic controllers who had gone out on strike. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 10 | The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 28 | John W. Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan; he was later acquitted by reason of insanity. (XDG, p 4A, 8/28/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 08 | Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 15 | President Reagan submits a waiver of law to Congress that would clear the way for construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska through Canada. (As of August, 2003, the pipeline has not been built. Natural gas discovered on the Alaskan North Slope has been reinjected into the ground.) (Time, p 39, 7/21/2003) | |
- 1982
| Jan 02 | "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater NY City NY after 48 performances. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., accused of shooting President Reagan, began in Washington. Hinckley was acquitted by reason of insanity. | Ref: 70 |
| May 03 | President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | In the first speech by an American president to a joint session of the British Parliament, President Reagan predicted that Marxism-Leninism would wind up "on the ash heap of history." | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 17 | Former US President Richard M. Nixon, rarely heard since resigning the presidency, is interviewed by Diane Sawyer on The CBS Morning News. The interview marked the 10th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 21 | A jury in Washington DC found John Hinckley Junior innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and three other men. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 18 | Bess Truman (Wallace) wife of 33rd U.S. President Harry S Truman dies in Independence MO at age 97. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 06 | Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce. | Ref: 5 |
- 1983
| Jun 22 | Pat Nixon (Ryan) former U.S. First Lady: Married to 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon; dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 11 | President Reagan became first US President to address Japan's legislature. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 03 | Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 11 | President Reagan became first US President to address Japan's legislature. | Ref: 5 |
- 1984
| Jan 29 | President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 12 | Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he'd chosen US Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 14 | Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he had chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket. (Go to article.) | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 18 | Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 19 | US Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (Democrat, New York) wins the Democratic nomination for vice president by acclamation at the party's convention in San Francisco. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 14 | Patricia (Patty) Ann Reagan married Paul Grilley on a movie set in California. The proud poppa, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, gave his daughter away in the private ceremony. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 22 | Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 30 | President Ronald Reagan, along with Red Barber, Bill Stern, Graham McNamee, Don Dunphy and Ted Husing were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame, in ceremonies at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 11 | VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R). | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 06 | President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D). | Ref: 5 |
- 1985
| Feb 27 | Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was seen in a TV commercial this day. She was seen in an ad for a diet soft drink. Her constituents were not ‘bubbling over’ with enthusiasm about the crass commercialism. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 12 | Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced that he planned to drop Secret Service protection and hire his own bodyguards. The plan would save taxpayers about $3 million a year. Nixon said that he was taking the action, “to do his part to help cut the federal deficit.” | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 22 | Washington and Lee University researchers reported this day that Martha Washington had 29,650 pounds when she and George were married. Now, before you smart alecks start making cracks about the ‘Father of Our Country’ liking cuddly women, we’d like you to know that 29,650 pounds was worth $5.9 million on their wedding day. | Ref: 4 |
| May 27 | Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | Vanity Fair magazine, with a picture of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy smooching on the cover, went on sale. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 12 | Doctors discovered what turned out to be a cancerous growth in President Reagan's large intestine, prompting surgery the following day. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 13 | Before undergoing surgery for colon cancer, President Reagan transferred power temporarily to Vice President Bush. It was the first time the Constitution's presidential disability clause was invoked. | Ref: 70 |
- 1986
| Apr 02 | George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 20 | Doctors at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from President Reagan's colon | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 19 | Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, Massachusetts. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 01 | Former President Jimmy Carter's presidential library and museum were dedicated in Atlanta. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 06 | The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration. | Ref: 2 |
- 1987
| Jan 07 | President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 06 | President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day, adding another year to the record of being the oldest U.S. President in history. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had been the previous recordholder, by serving the country from the Oval Office at age 70. | Ref: 4 |
| May 03 | Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with presidential candidate Gary Hart. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Gary Hart, dogged by questions about his personal life, withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 12 | President Ronald Reagan delivered a now-famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Destruction began November 9, 1989 on the Berlin Wall that had divided the city for some 28 years. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 08 | Kitty Dukakis, wife of Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, revealed she had been addicted to amphetamines but had sought help and was drug-free. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 09 | Presidential candidate Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on "Nightline". | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 10 | Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami where he is welcomed by President and Mrs. Reagan as he begins his 10-day tour of the US. (XDG, p 4A, 9/10/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 12 | Alfred M. Landon, Republican governor of Kansas who carried only two states in his overwhelming defeat for the presidency by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, dies at age 100. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 17 | First lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 23 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured. | Ref: 5 |
- 1988
| Apr 05 | Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 20 | Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 21 | Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 16 | Vice President George Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 17 | Franklin D Roosevelt Jr (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday. | Ref: 68 |
| Aug 18 | Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H.W. Bush's running mate during the Republican convention in New Orleans. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 25 | Billy Carter Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51 | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 26 | Billy Carter, brother of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter, dies. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 05 | Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 08 | Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush and running-mate IN Senator Dan Quayle were elected President and Vice-President of the United States. They defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and his running-mate, TX Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Bush was inaugurated the 41st president of the United States on January 20, 1989. He was the first incumbent vice president to win election since Martin Van Buren won in 1836. | Ref: 4 |
- 1989
| Jan 04 | Vice President Bush is first since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Bush inaugurated as 41st President & Quayle becomes 44th Vice President. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Reagan becomes first President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | President George H.W. Bush called Ayatollah Khomeini's death warrant against "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie "deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior." | Ref: 70 |
| May 09 | Vice President Dan Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste". | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 15 | Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 21 | Former president Ronald Reagan was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in recognition of his role as George Armstrong Custer in The Santa Fe Trail (1940) and as host of TV’s Death Valley Days (1965-1966). | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 26 | President George H.W. Bush signs a law that removes price controls on natural gas. (Even so, the market failed to produce enough natural gas to meet demand.) | |
| Dec 21 | Vice-President Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon. | Ref: 5 |
- 1990
| Mar 05 | Gloria Carter Spann President Carter's sister, dies at 63 from cancer. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg NY NY, daughter of Caroline, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 09 | Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 26 | President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 19 | President Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 27 | Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, dies at age 80. | Ref: 5 |
- 1991
| Mar 30 | Patricia Bowman, a resident of Jupiter, Fla., told authorities she'd been raped hours earlier by William Kennedy Smith, the nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy,at the family's Palm Beach estate. Smith was later acquitted at trial. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | President Bush suffered shortness of breath while jogging at Camp David; he was rushed to Bethesda Naval Hospital, where doctors found he was experiencing an irregular heartbeat. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | President Bush continued to experience an irregular heartbeat, one day after he was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital because of fatigue and shortness of breath. | Ref: 6 |
| May 06 | President Bush returned to work after spending two nights at Bethesda Naval Hospital because of an irregular heartbeat; he met at the White House with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. | Ref: 6 |
| May 09 | William Kennedy Smith was charged with rape, nearly six weeks after Patricia Bowman accused him of attacking her at the Kennedy family estate in West Palm Beach, Florida (he was acquitted at trial). | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 18 | Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 21 | Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ). | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 26 | A Kentucky medical examiner announced that test results showed President Zachary Taylor had died in 1850 of natural causes -- and not arsenic poisoning, as speculated by a writer. (Taylor's remains were exhumed so that tissue samples could be taken.) | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 29 | John F Kennedy Jr wins his first law case | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 03 | Arkansas Governor William Clinton enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. (XDG, p 4A, 10/3/2001) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 04 | The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum was dedicated by five American presidents (the first gathering of five U.S. presidents). Reagan, President George Bush, and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon attended the ceremonies in Simi Valley, CA. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 04 | Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 06 | Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., testifying at the trial of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, denied hearing screams the night Patricia Bowman said she was raped by Smith at the Kennedy estate in West Palm Beach, Fla. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 10 | William Kennedy Smith, accused of raping Patricia Bowman, proclaimed his innocence during his trial in West Palm Beach, Fla. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 11 | A jury in West Palm Beach, Fla., acquitted William Kennedy Smith of sexual assault and battery, rejecting the allegations of Patricia Bowman. European Community leaders meeting in the Dutch city of Maastricht hammered out a compromise for a loose federation of their countries. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 19 | Patricia Bowman, who had accused William Kennedy Smith of raping her, told ABC's "Prime Time Live" she was shocked by his acquittal. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 20 | NY Gov. Mario Cuomo announced he would not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying his first responsibility was to deal with his state's budget problems. Robert Bardo, the obsessed fan who had stalked actress Rebecca Schaeffer before killing her, was sentenced in Los Angeles to life in prison without parole. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 26 | Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction. | Ref: 5 |
- 1992
| Jan 01 | Bush is first US President to address Australian Parliament. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 08 | U.S. President George Bush falls suddenly ill at a state dinner in Tokyo, Japan. The Prez became pale, slumped in his chair and promptly vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 20 | Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot told CNN's "Larry King Live" that he would run for president if his name was placed on the ballot in all 50 states. (XDG, p 4A, 2/20/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 15 | President Clinton spends a second day at Bethesda Naval Hospital recuperating from surgery for a partially torn knee tendon. (XDG, p 4A, 3/15/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 28 | Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown argue over the flat tax. Clinton charges the plan would burden the poor. Brown accuses Clinton of "another big lie". (XDG, p.4a, 3/28/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 29 | Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with marijuana "a time or two" while attending Oxford University, adding, "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again." | Ref: 70 |
| May 16 | Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | The season finale of Murphy Brown aired on CBS with Murphy Brown, played by Candice Bergen, giving birth to an illegitimate son (Avery Brown). The following day, U.S. V.P. Dan Quayle publicly lambasted the comedy, saying that the program ‘glorified’ single-parenthood. Quayle also complained that the TV situation made a mockery of families with fathers. | Ref: 4 |
| May 19 | Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" because the title character chose to have a child out of wedlock. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 15 | Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously instructed a Trenton, N.J., elementary school student to spell potato as "potatoe" during a spelling bee. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 09 | Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton tapped Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 11 | Undeclared presidential hopeful Ross Perot, addressing the NAACP convention in Nashville, TN, startled and offended his listeners by referring to the predominantly black audience as "you people". | |
| Jul 13 | The 41st Democratic national convention opens in New York City. (XDG, p. 1A, 7/13/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 15 | Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 20 | The Republican national convention in Houston renominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 23 | Plans for a presidential debate fall apart as President H.W. Bush continues to object to a single-moderator format proposed by a bipartisan commission. It was the second such cancellation. (XDG, p. 4A, 9/23/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 03 | Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (and running-mate Al Gore) easily defeated President George Bush and VP Dan Quayle to win the U.S. presidential election. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 27 | Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair. | Ref: 5 |
- 1993
| Jan 11 | Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg son of Caroline Kennedy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | William Jefferson Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States; Al Gore is sworn in as his Vice President. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 25 | President Clinton appointed his wife, Hillary, to head a committee on health-care reform. | Ref: 70 |
| May 19 | The White House set off a political storm by abruptly firing the entire staff of its travel office; five of the seven staffers were later reinstated and assigned to other duties. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 22 | Pat Nixon (Ryan), former U.S. First Lady married to 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, dies in Park Ridge, N.J., at age 81. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 10 | Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at what she called "standpat, negative, nay-saying" openents of health care reform in an address to state legislators at George Washington University. (XDG, p 4A, 9/10/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 04 | The White House challenged Ross Perot to a debate on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with Vice-President Al Gore. Perot, calling it "a desparte move", quickly accepted. (XDG, p 4A, 11/04/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 24 | President Clinton meets with Salman Rushdie, the British author condemned to death by Iran for writing "The Satanic Verses". (XDG, p 4A, 1124/2003) | Ref: 83 |
- 1994
| Jan 06 | Virginia Kelley Clinton Mother of President Clinton, dies dies in Hot Springs AR at 70. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Robert B Fiske Jr is appointed to investigate President and Mrs Clinton's Arkansas land deals. (XDG, p 4A, 1/20/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 14 | Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a longtime friend of President and Mrs. Clinton, resigned because of controversy over billings he'd charged while in private law practice. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 22 | Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 24 | Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | Former President Nixon suffers a stroke at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey; he will die four days later in a New York hospital. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 22 | Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at a New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81. | Ref: 68 |
| Apr 27 | President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a suit against President Clinton alleging sexual harassment. (XDG, p 4A, 5/6/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| May 07 | Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42). | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Former President George H.W. Bush's office released his letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association, in which Bush expressed outrage over its reference to federal agents as "jackbooted government thugs." | Ref: 70 |
| May 16 | Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady: wife of 35th US President John F. Kennedy; wife of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; editor: Doubleday Publishing, dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 64. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 15 | Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea on a private mission to try to reduce tensions with the Communist nation. (XDG, p 4A, 6/15/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 16 | Former President Jimmy Carter, on a private visit to North Korea, reports that the Communist nation's leaders were eager to resume talks with the US on resolving disputes about Pyongyang's nuclear program and improving relations. (XDG, p 4A, 6/16/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 10 | President Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 29 | Francisco Martin Duran of Colorado Springs, Colorado fired more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania Avenue; Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President Clinton and sentenced to 40 years in prison. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 03 | President Clinton recounds the tough fight "to approve the promotion of ethanol… We did it to make ourselves more independent of foreign oil." (Ethanol's contribution to energy independence is negligible. It's cost is not.) (Time, p 39, 7/21/2003) | |
| Nov 05 | Former President Ronald Reagan discloses he has Alzheimer's disease. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 17 | Francisco Martin Duran, the Colorado man accused of an assault-rifle attack on the White House, is indicted on a new charge of trying to assassinate President Clinton. | Ref: 6 |
| Dec 26 | President's ½ brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-month pregnant Molly Nartin (25). | Ref: 5 |
- 1995
| Jan 22 | Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy, mother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, dies at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at age 104. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 17 | Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 17 | James B. McDougal, McDougal's ex-wife, Susan H. McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were indicted by the Whitewater grand jury. (James McDougal was convicted on 18 of 19 counts of fraud and conspiracy; Tucker was found guilty on one count of fraud and one count of conspiracy; Susan McDougal was convicted on four fraud-related charges.) | Ref: 6 |
| Nov 30 | President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland, where he implored Roman Catholics and Protestants alike not to surrender to the impulses of "old habits and hard grudges." | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 20 | "Nixon" opened in U.S. theatres. The film starred Anthony Hopkins as Richard M., Joan Allen as the president’s wife, Pat, Powers Boothe as Alexander Haig, Ed Harris as E. Howard Hunt, Bob Hoskins as J. Edgar Hoover, E.G. Marshall as John Mitchell, David Paymer as Ronald Ziegler, David Hyde Pierce as John Dean, Paul Sorvino as Henry Kissinger, Mary Steenburgen as Hannah Nixon, J.T. Walsh as John Ehrlichman, and James Woods played H.R. Haldeman. | Ref: 4 |
- 1996
| Feb 27 | Bob Dole won the North Dakota and South Dakota primaries, while Steve Forbes captured Arizona's winner-take-all primary. | Ref: 6 |
| Apr 23 | A three-night auction of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' possessions began at Sotheby's in NY with a bidding frenzy. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 26 | Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | Bob Dole handily won the New York Republican primary. | Ref: 6 |
| May 09 | In dramatic video testimony to a hushed courtroom in Little Rock, Arkansas, President Clinton insisted he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan at the heart of the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners. | Ref: 6 |
| May 15 | Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole announced he was leaving the Senate after 27 years to challenge President Clinton full-time. | Ref: 70 |
| May 24 | President Clinton underwent his annual physical at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, where he had a precancerous lesion removed from his nose. On the plus side, his weight was the same as the year before -- 216 -- and his cholesterol count had improved from 203 to 191. | Ref: 6 |
| May 28 | President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud. | Ref: 70 |
| May 30 | The House called off a contempt-of-Congress vote after President Clinton's aides turned over one-thousand pages of papers and a long-sought list of documents in the travel office firings. | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 11 | Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) ended his Senate career (to make a run for the US Presidency) with an emotional farewell speech before a packed Senate chamber. He had spent some 27 years as a US Senator. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 22 | Flamboyant lawyer, defender of Jack Ruby, Melvin Belli dies at age 88. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jul 09 | Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm began a drive for the presidential nomination of Ross Perot's fledgling Reform Party. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 09 | Bob Dole telephoned Jack Kemp to ask him to be his running mate; Kemp accepted. A weary-looking Boris Yeltsin was sworn into his second term as president of Russia. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 10 | Bob Dole completed the Republican ticket by announcing former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp as his running mate. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 14 | The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 19 | Ralph Nader accepted the presidential nomination of the Green Party in Los Angeles, denouncing tax breaks for corporations and calling for a "political alternative" to the two mainstream parties. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 20 | Susan McDougal was sentenced in Little Rock, Arkansas, to two years in prison in a Whitewater fraud case. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 28 | Democrats nominated President Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 17 | Disgraced vice-president (under Richard Nixon) and Governor of Maryland Spiro T. (Theodore) Agnew dies in Berlin MD, at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 21 | John F. Kennedy Junior married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 22 | Steve Forbes announced a latecomer bid for the Republican presidential nomination. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 25 | Ross Perot announced he would form a new Independence Party that would field its own White House candidate and would try to be the swing vote in congressional races. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 29 | CA Governor Pete Wilson abandoned his bid for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination. | Ref: 6 |
| Oct 11 | Ten Republican presidential candidates used their first televised forum to politely compete for support in the New Hampshire primary. | Ref: 6 |
| Nov 05 | U.S. voters reelected President Bill Clinton but gave the Republican party another majority in both houses of Congress, trimming the margin of that majority in the House of Representatives and increasing it slightly in the Senate. | Ref: 4 |
- 1997
| Jan 18 | Former Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential contender Paul Tsongas died in Boston of pneumonia at age 55. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 02 | It was revealed that Vice President Al Gore had raised millions of dollars for the 1996 campaign through direct telephone solicitations, and that some of the calls were made on phones installed in government buildings for that purpose. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 14 | Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a torn knee tendon in President Clinton's right leg; the injury had been caused by a freak middle-of-the-night stumble at the Florida home of golfer Greg Norman. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 25 | Former President George H.W. Bush, 73, parachuted from a plane over the Arizona desert. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Millie dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12 | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | The Supreme Court ruled Paula Jones could pursue her sex harassment lawsuit against President Clinton while he was in office. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 03 | In his first formal response to charges by Paula Jones of sexual harassment, President Clinton denied all allegations in her lawsuit, and asked a judge to dismiss the case. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 09 | Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton taps Senator Al Gore to be his running mate. (XDG, p 4A, 7/09/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 04 | Three Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later destroyed or altered records. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 03 | Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 06 | Former President George H.W. Bush opens his presidential library at Texas A&M University. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 16 | President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy". | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | Michael Kennedy, the 39-year-old son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado. | Ref: 5 |
- 1998
| Jan 17 | President Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused the president of sexual harassment. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 06 | In an act of unbelievable irony, President Clinton signs a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. (President Reagan dismissed nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers for defying a back-to-work order on August 5th, 1981.) | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 05 | Details of President Clinton's deposition testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against him were published in the Washington Post, prompting an angry denunciation from the president for the news leak. (XDG, p 4A, 3/05/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 15 | "60 Minutes" airs an interview with former White House employee, Kathleen Willey, who said President Clinton made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993, a charge denied by the president. (XDG, p 4A, 3/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Apr 01 | U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright dismisses Paula Jones' lawsuit against President Clinton, saying her claims of sexual harassment fell "far short" of being worthy of trial. | Ref: 70 |
| May 26 | Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 28 | President Clinton, speaking in Oak Bluffs, Mass., said he'd become such an expert in asking forgiveness in recent days that it was now "burned in my bones." | |
| Sep 09 | Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivers to Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of President Clinton. | |
| Sep 13 | George Wallace Governor of AL; candidate for US President: paralyzed by gunshot wounds as subject of assassination attempt [1972]; dies at age 79. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 18 | The House Judiciary Committee voted to release a videotape of President Clinton's Aug. 17 grand jury testimony. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 20 | Muriel Humphrey Brown, widow of Vice President Hubert Humphrey and his brief successor in the U.S. Senate, died in Minneapolis at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 05 | A study showed strong genetic evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave, Sally Hemings. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 13 | President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit, with no apology or admission of guilt, ending the four-year legal battle that spurred impeachment proceedings against him. (XDG, p 4A, 11/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 11 | Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against President Clinton, over Democratic objections. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 19 | President Clinton was impeached by the Republican-controlled House for perjury and obstruction of justice. The 42nd chief executive became only the second in history to be ordered to stand trial in the Senate, where, like Andrew Johnson before him, he was acquitted. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 28 | “For rewriting the book on crime and punishment, for putting prices on values we didn’t want to rank, for fighting past all reason a battle whose casualties will be counted for years to come, Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr are TIME’s 1998 Men of the Year.” | Ref: 4 |
- 1999
| Jan 07 | President Clinton's impeachment trial began in the Senate. He was ultimately acquitted of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 14 | Before a jury of 100 silent US Senators, House prosecutors demanded President Clinton's removal from office, charging he had "piled perjury upon perjury" and obstructed justice. (XDG, p 4A, 1/14/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 19 | President Clinton delivers his State of the Union address, in which he proposes to protect Social Security by using huge budget surpluses and announced the government would sue the tobacco industry for smokers' health costs. (XDG, p 4A, 1/19/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 12 | The Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Chief Justice William Rehnquist announces the result of the vote; President Clinton tells Americans he is "profoundly sorry" for what he'd said and done in the Monica Lewinsky affair that triggered it all. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 02 | Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan lunges a third White House bid. (XDG, p 4A, 3/02/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 02 | Texas Governor George W Bush announces he was forming a presidential exploratory committee. (XDG, p 4A, 3/02/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 16 | Vice President Al Gore announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 07 | President Clinton became the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to visit an Indian reservation as he toured the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 16 | John F. Kennedy Jr. (‘John-John’; attorney; cofounder/editor: George magazine; son of U.S. President John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy), his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when their single-engine plane plunges into the ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. (TWA, 2000) | Ref: 95 |
| Jul 21 | Navy divers found the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 22 | The ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were cast into the sea off Martha's Vineyard. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 03 | Arbitrators rule the US government had to pay $16 million to the heirs of dressmaker Abraham Zapruder for his film of the Kennedy assassination. (XDG, p 4A, 8/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 19 | Presidential candidate George W. Bush tells reporters he had not used illegal drugs in 25 years, and added that if voters insisted on knowing more "they can go find somebody else to vote for". (XDG, p 4A, 8/19/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 25 | Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan bolted the GOP to mount a bid for the Reform Party nomination. | Ref: 70 |
- 2000
| Jan 19 | Michael Skakel, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy, surrendered to police in Greenwich, Conn., to face charges in the 1975 death of a 15-year-old girl. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 06 | First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 21 | Consumer advocate Ralph Nader announces his entry into the presidential race, bidding for the nomination of the Green Party. (XDG, p 4A, 2/21/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 27 | TX Governor George W. Bush's campaign released a letter to NY Cardinal John O'Connor in which the Republican presidential candidate said he "deeply" regretted "causing needless offense" by making a campaign appearance at Bob Jones University, a South Carolina school whose leaders had espoused anti-Catholic views. | Ref: 6 |
| Mar 09 | Republican John McCain and Democrat Bill Bradley suspended their presidential campaigns, effectively conceding their parties' nominations to George W. Bush and Al Gore. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 14 | Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore clinched their presidential nominations in a sweep of Southern primaries. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 16 | Independent counsel Robert Ray said he had found no credible evidence that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton or senior White House officials were involved in seeking the FBI background files of Republicans. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 30 | In the midst of the 2000 presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore broke with the Clinton administration, saying he supported legislation to allow 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to remain in the country while the courts resolved his custody case. | Ref: 64 |
| May 07 | TX Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore were the big winners in Super Tuesday primaries. | Ref: 6 |
| May 16 | The NY Democratic Party, meeting in Albany, nominated first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the US Senate. | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 15 | Al Gore named Commerce Secretary William Daley to take over his presidential campaign, replacing Tony Coelho, who had abruptly resigned, citing health problems. | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 22 | Independent Counsel Robert Ray ended his investigation of the 1993 firings in the White House travel office, issuing no indictments but saying he'd found "substantial evidence" that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) played a role in the dismissals. | Ref: 64 |
| Jul 13 | Fellow Democrat Bill Bradley endorsed Vice President Al Gore for president, four months after conceding their fight for the White House. | Ref: 6 |
| Jul 25 | TX Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 30 | The Republican national convention opened in Philadelphia, with George W. Bush's name put into nomination for president. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 02 | Republicans nominated TX Gov. George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice president at the party's convention in Philadelphia. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 07 | Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selected Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 08 | Vice President Al Gore formally introduced and celebrated his Jewish running mate, Senator Joseph Lieberman, during an appearance in Gore's home state of TN. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 11 | Pat Buchanan won the Reform Party presidential nomination in a victory bitterly disputed by party founder Ross Perot's supporters, who chose their own nominee, John Hagelin, in a rival convention. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 16 | Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominate Al Gore for president. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 17 | The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman for vice president. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 29 | Incumbents William Clinton and Al Gore are nominated for President and Vice president at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. (XDG, p 4A, 8/29/2001) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 02 | It was announced that President and Mrs. Clinton had signed a contract to purchase a $1.7 million house in Chappaqua, NY, ending a months-long guessing game over where the couple would live after leaving the White House. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 08 | Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley officially kicked off his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with a rally in his hometown of Crystal City, Missouri. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 25 | Vice President Al Gore and former Senator Bill Bradley squared off in back-to-back speeches to the Democratic National Committee as each sought support for his 2000 presidential campaign. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 27 | Senator John McCain of Arizona officially opened his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, the same day former Vice President Dan Quayle dropped his White House bid. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 29 | Vice President Al Gore abruptly moved his presidential campaign headquarters from Washington DC to Nashville to get "out of the Beltway and into the heartland." | Ref: 6 |
| Nov 07 | Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 07 | Americans chose Republican George W. Bush president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore by 537 votes, The results of the election were not known for more than a month because of a dispute over votes in Florida. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 08 | A statewide recount began in Florida, which emerged as critical in deciding the winner of the 2000 presidential election. Early that day, Vice President Al Gore telephoned TX Gov. George W. Bush to concede, but called back about an hour later to retract his concession. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 11 | Republicans went to court, seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in Florida's razor-thin presidential election. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 13 | Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced she would end the recounting at 5 p.m. the next day prompting an immediate appeal by Democratic candidate Al Gore. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 14 | Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush's fragile 300-vote lead over Al Gore, hours after a judge refused to lift a 5 p.m. deadline; however, the judge gave Harris the authority to accept or reject follow-up manual recount totals. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 17 | The Florida Supreme Court froze the state's presidential tally, forbidding Secretary of State Katherine Harris to certify results of the marathon vote count in the race between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore. Also, a federal appeals court refused to block recounts under way in two heavily Democratic counties. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 20 | Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue. Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resigned, ending a 10-year reign. | Ref: 64 |
| Nov 21 | In a setback for George W. Bush, the Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going; Democrats were jubilant, Republicans bitter and angry. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 22 | Amid the Florida recount battle, Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney was hospitalized with what doctors called a "very slight" heart attack. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 23 | In a setback for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade county to resume counting ballots by hand. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 24 | The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the bitter, overtime struggle for the White House, agreeing to consider George W. Bush's appeal against the hand recounting of ballots in Florida. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 25 | Hundreds of military veterans and retirees, angered by the rejection of overseas absentee ballots in Florida, held a noisy demonstration in Pensacola, one of several rallies Republicans and Democrats staged across Florida. | Ref: 64 |
| Nov 26 | Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 27 | A day after George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida's presidential vote, Al Gore laid out his case for letting the courts settle the nation's long-count election. Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien's Liberal Party won a third straight majority in the House of Commons. | Ref: 64 |
| Nov 28 | George W. Bush's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring "legal finality" to the presidential election by ending any further ballot recounts; Al Gore's team countered that the nation's highest court should not interfere in Florida's recount dispute. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 29 | Bracing the public for more legal wrangling, Vice President Al Gore said in a series of TV interviews that he was prepared to contest the Florida presidential vote until "the middle of December." Lou Groza, the Cleveland Browns' Hall of Fame kicker and lineman affectionately known as "The Toe," died at age 76. | Ref: 64 |
| Nov 30 | Al Gore's lawyers battled for his political survival in the Florida and U.S. supreme courts; meanwhile, GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee moved to award the presidency to George W. Bush in case the courts did not by appointing their own slate of electors. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 04 | In a pair of legal setbacks for Al Gore, a Florida state judge refused to overturn George W. Bush's certified victory in Florida and the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a ruling that had allowed manual recounts. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 06 | Florida Republican leaders announced the Legislature would convene in special session to appoint its own slate of electors in the state's contested presidential race; Democrats denounced the action as unnecessary. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 08 | The Florida Supreme Court ordered an immediate hand count of about 45,000 disputed presidential ballots. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 09 | The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a temporary halt in the Florida presidential vote count. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 10 | In Washington, lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush filed briefs outlining their cases to be argued the next day before the U.S. Supreme Court. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak submitted his resignation, starting the countdown toward a special election. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 11 | The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from lawyers representing George W. Bush and Al Gore concerning the Florida presidential vote recount. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 12 | A divided U.S. Supreme Court halted the presidential recount in Florida. Democrat Al Gore conceded defeat to Republican George W. Bush the following day. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 13 | Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency five weeks after Election Day and a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Florida. Democrat Al Gore conceded, delivering a call for national unity. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 15 | First lady and senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to an $8 million book deal with publisher Simon and Schuster for her White House memoirs. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 18 | The Electoral College cast its ballots, with President-elect Bush receiving the expected 271; Al Gore, however, received 266, one fewer than expected, because of a District of Columbia Democrat who left her ballot blank to protest the district's lack of representation in Congress. Antitrust regulators approved the merger of British drug companies Glaxo Wellcome PLC and SmithKline Beecham PLC. Newspaper heir Randolph Apperson Hearst, the last surviving son of William Randolph Hearst, died in NY at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 19 | U.S. President-elect George W. Bush completed a three-day visit to Washington and departed for TX after visits with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Bush greeted the man he was about to succeed, saying, "I'm here to listen." Clinton, the outgoing Democratic chief executive, said his only advice to the Republican was "to get a good team and do what you think is right." | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 21 | President-elect George W. Bush resigned as governor of Texas; Lt. Gov. Rick Perry was sworn in to replace him. | Ref: 70 |
- 2001
| Jan 04 | It was announced that George, the politics and lifestyle magazine founded by the late John F. Kennedy Jr., would fold. | Ref: 64 |
| Jan 06 | With the vanquished Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress formally certified George W. Bush the winner of the achingly close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 20 | George W. Bush took the oath of office as the 43rd president of the United States. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 04 | Harold Stassen perennial U.S. Presidential candidate; governor of Minnesota; a member of President Eisenhower’s cabinet; one of the founders of the U.N.; died Mar 4, 2001 | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 05 | Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an angioplasty for a partially blocked artery after going to a hospital with chest pains. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 30 | Doctors implanted a dual-purpose pacemaker in Vice President Dick Cheney's chest. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 08 | Former President Reagan's daughter Maureen died at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 12 | A front page article in the NY Times indicates that had the disputed Florida ballots been allowed in the recount, George W Bush would still have won the state and the presidency. | |
| Dec 06 | The Secret Service arrest 26-year-old William Duncan carrying a foot-long knife outside a White House gate and had a cache of loaded weapons including 1000 rounds of ammunition in his nearby pickup truck. (XDG, p 11A, 12/07/2001) | Ref: 83 |
- 2002
| Jan 13 | President GW Bush fainted briefly after choking on a pretzel while watching a football game. (XDG, p 4A, 1/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| May 12 | Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba, becoming the first U.S. president in or out of office - to visit since the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power. | Ref: 70 |
| May 14 | Former President Carter addresses Cubans, in an unprecedented hour of live, uncensored television, telling them that their country did not meet international standards of democracy. (XDG, p 4A, 5/14/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 07 | Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Conn., of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when they were 15 in 1975. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 29 | President Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 10 | A team sponsored by National Geographic announces it has discovered the wreck of PT-109, the boat that was commanded by Lt.(jg) John F. Kennedy when it was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri on August 2nd, 1943. There are no plans to raise the ship. (USA Today, p 10D, 7/11/2002) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 11 | Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 15 | Former US VP Al Gore, who'd come agonizingly close to winning the Presidency in 2000, said in an interview on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" that he would not run for the White House in 2004. (XDG, p 4A, 12/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 21 | President George W. Bush received a smallpox vaccination, fulfilling a promise he'd made when he ordered inoculations for about a-half million U.S. troops. | Ref: 70 |
- 2003
| May 01 | President GW Bush, a former National Guard pilot, co-pilots an S-3B Viking jet as it lands on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (USA Today, p 8A, 5/02/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jun 16 | President George W Bush says, " the problem is we don't have a policy that encourages exploration for natural gas. So, demand is going up for natural gas and supply isn't, and that's why you're seeing the price rise… We need an energy policy that uses our technologies in such a way that we can explore environmentally safe ways for additional supplies of natural gas." (Time, p 39, 7/21/2003) | |
| Nov 18 | John Hinckley Jr, who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, has asked US District Judge Paul L Friedman to permit unsupervised, overnight visits to his parents home in Williamsburg VA, 300 miles from St Elizabeth Hospital in Washington DC, where he is currently confined. (XDG, p 5A, 11/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 09 | Presidential hopeful Howard Dean (ex-Gov-D-VT) is set to capture an endorsement from Al Gore, moving Dean into the mainstream of American politics. (USA Today, p 1A, 12/09/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Dec 17 | US District Judge Paul Friedman rules that John Hinckley, 48, the man who shot President Reagan in an assassination attempt, is permitted unsupervised trips to visit his parents. (USA Today, p 1, 12/18/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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