U.S. President History
1861 - U.S. President-elect Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take his office after an assassination attempt in Baltimore.
1848 - The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, died.
1916 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin.
| "The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them." - U.S. President George W. Bush, September 20, 2001 |