U.S. President History
1979 - U.S. President Carter ordered a halt to all oil imports from Iran in response to 63 Americans being taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4.
1999 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed into law the Financial Services Management Act. The legislation overhauled the regulatory framework of the financial-services industry in the U.S.
| "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." - U.S. President John Adams |