U.S. President History
1923 - President Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.
1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
1967 - John F. Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one.
1989 - Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under President Bush.
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants.
2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush extended a waiver of sanctions against Pakistan. The sanctions were removed due to President Pervez Musharraf siding with the United States after the terrorist attacks against the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
| "Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins." - Chester Allen Arthur |