U.S. President History
1799 - The first president of the United States, George Washington, died at the age 67.
1999 - In a public ceremony at the Panama Canal, Panama's President Mireya Moscoso de Grubar and form U.S. President Jimmy Carter, representing the United States, exchanged documents that transferred control of the canal from the U.S. to the Republic of Panama.
2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced the American public that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had been capture by U.S. forces.
| "Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well." - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower |