U.S. President History
1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Jones-Reid bill. The act allotted $340 million for flood control in the West and Midwest United States.
1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a note to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt requesting eventual participation in the war against Germany.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon nominated America's first two female generals.
1972 - In Laurel, MD, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
1991 - U.S. President Bush took Queen Elizabeth to an Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game.
| "As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children." - U.S. President John Adams |