U.S. President History
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt was born.
1880 - Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.
1945 - U.S. President Harry S Truman made his first live television appearance.
1962 - The Soviet Union adds to the Cuban Missile Crisis by calling for the dismantling of U.S. missile basis in Turkey. U.S. President Kennedy agreed to the new aspect of the agreement.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton presented a plan to the U.S. Congress for comprehensive health-care reform. The plan, the Health Security Act, was defeated in 1994.
1997 - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 554.26 points. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Reagan.
| "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. |