U.S. President History
1877 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
1910 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt paid an unofficial visit to Amsterdam.
1931 - The Empire State Building officially opened. U.S. President Herbert Hoover turned on the building's lights with a push of a button from Washington, DC.
1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the third Neutrality Act, keeping the United States out of World War II. The act included the "cash and carry law."
1973 - In Washington, DC, it was reported that there was evidence of a Watergate cover-up by top Nixon aides.
1974 - The Carpenters performed at U.S. President Nixon's request at a White House dinner for West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan ended an embargo against Nicaragua.
2000 - The "Barbie for President" doll was released in stores.
2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush declared that major hostilities were over in Iraq.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. soldiers had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
| "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." - President George W. Bush, September 14, 2001 |