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Monday, 1 September 2014
Monday, 13 January 2014
2009 Barack Hussein Obama II was elected the 44th President
Born Honolulu, Hawaii; August 4,
1961. He is the first African
American
to hold the office. Nine months after his election, Obama was named the 2009
Nobel Peace Prize
laureate. During his first two years in office, Obama signed into law economic
stimulus
legislation in response to the Great Recession in the form of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax
Relief, Unemployment Insurance Re-authorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010.
2001 George Walker Bush was inaugurated the 43rd President
Born New Haven, Connecticut; July 6, 1946. Bush was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial election, becoming the fourth president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes nationwide than his opponent. He is the second president to have been the son of a former president, the first being John Quincy Adams (with the other familial presidential relations being grandfather-grandson of the Harrisons, as well as the Roosevelts being 5th cousins).
1993 William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was elected the 42nd President
Born Hope, Arkansas, as William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president from the baby boomer generation. Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected president twice. He passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing health coverage for millions of children.
1989 George Herbert Walker Bush was elected the 41st President
Born Milton, Massachusetts; June 12, 1924. He is the oldest former President and Vice President, and the last former President who is a veteran of World War II. Graduating Yale University in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. Bush is often referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the Elder", Bush I, or "George Bush, Sr." to distinguish him from his son, former President George W. Bush.
1981 Ronald Wilson Reagan was elected the 40th President
Born Tampico, Illinois; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975), and was a radio, film and television actor. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, announced a new War on Drugs, and ordered an invasion of Grenada. He was re-elected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was "Morning in America".
1977 Jimmy Carter was elected the 39th President
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., born Plains, Georgia in October 1, 1924. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow (the only U.S. boycott in Olympic history), and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state.
1974 Gerald Rudolph Ford is sworn in as the 38th President
Born Omaha, Nebraska, as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006. Vice President Ford is sworn in as President after the resignation of President Nixon. He presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. Ford lived longer than any other U.S. president, living 93 years and 165 days, while his 895-day presidency remains the shortest of all presidents who did not die in office.
1969 Richard Milhous Nixon was elected the 37th President
Born Yorba
Linda, California; January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994. Nixon waged an
unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960,
narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy. He was
serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the
office. In retirement, Nixon's work as an elder statesman, authoring nine books
and undertaking many foreign trips, helped to rehabilitate his public image.
1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President
Born Stonewall, Texas; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973. Often referred to as LBJ, was sworn in as President, hours after the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United
States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. Johnson is
ranked favorably by some historians because of his domestic policies.
1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected the 35th President
Born Brookline, Massachusetts; May 29,
1917 – November 22, 1963. Commonly known as "Jack" or by his initials JFK,
serving from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November
1963. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of
the crime and arrested that evening. Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two
days later, before a trial could take place.
1959 Hawaii was admitted the 50th state to the Union
Its capital and largest city is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu. Hawaii is the most recent of the 50 U.S. states (joined the Union on August 21,
1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. The eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to
southeast) Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui and the island
of Hawaiʻi (called "The Big Island"). Hawaii is the only U.S. state not to be located in the Americas
and also the
only state with an Asian plurality.
1959 Alaska was admitted to the Union as the 49th state
Alaska
capital is Juneau, largest city is Anchorage. Alaska
is the largest
state in the United States by area. Alaska's
economy is dominated by the oil, natural gas, and fishing industries, tourism is also a
significant part of the economy. The United States purchased Alaska from Russia on March 30,
1867, for $7.2 million ($120 million adjusted for inflation) at approximately
two cents per acre ($4.74/km²).
1953 Dwight David Eisenhower was elected the 34th President
Born
Denison,
Texas; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969. He was a five-star general in the U.S. Army during World War
II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO (North Atlantic
Treaty Organization). Among his
enduring innovations, he launched the Interstate Highway System; the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which led to
the internet.
Friday, 10 January 2014
1945 Harry S. Truman becoming the 33rd President
Born Lamar, Missouri; May 8, 1884
– December 26, 1972. The final running mate of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt
in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt
died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the U.S. successfully
concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet
Union
increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected the 32nd President
Born Hyde Park, New York; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945. President of the
United States (1933–1945), served for 12
years and four terms, until his death in 1945. He was the only president ever to serve more than eight years. The only president ever to do so,
and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the
United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
1929 Herbert Clark Hoover was elected the 31st President
Born West Branch, Iowa; August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964 to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer. Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary (President Kennedy was the other; he donated all his paychecks to charity). He is generally ranked lower than average among U.S. Presidents.
1923 John Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th President
Born Plymouth Notch, Vermont;
July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933. Vice President Coolidge was sworn
in as President,
the day following the death of President Harding, who died of a heart
attack
at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a
reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a
man who said very little.
1921 Warren Gamaliel Harding was elected the 29th President
Born Blooming Grove, Ohio; November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923. Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and in the U.S. Senate where he protected alcohol interests and moderately supported women's suffrage. Harding was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Canada, having visited Vancouver on July 26, 1923. He has been viewed as a more modern politician who embraced technology and who was sensitive to the plights of minorities, women, and labor.
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