U.S. President History
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall.
1936 - The Statue of Liberty was rededicated by U.S. President Roosevelt on its 50th anniversary.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman swore in Eugenie Moore Anderson as the U.S. ambassador to Denmark. Anderson was the first woman to hold the post of ambassador.
1967 - U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexican president Gustavo Díaz Ordaz formally settled the Chamizal Dispute when they agreed that Mexico should receive 7.82 acres of the Ponce de León land grant.
1976 - John D. Erlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Nixon, entered a federal prison camp in Safford, AZ, to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton visited Kuwait and implied that all the troops there would be home by Christmas.
| "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 |