U.S. President History
1879 - U.S. President Hayes signed a bill that allowed female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1933 - U.S. President-elect Roosevelt escaped an assasination attempt in Miami. Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in the attack.
1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush rejected an Iraqi call for a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf. Bush called the offer a "cruel hoax."
1999 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Mexico's President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León concluded a two-day meeting in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
| "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house, and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but wise men ever rule under this roof!" - U.S. First Lady Abigail Adams about the new Executive Mansion. |