U.S. President History
1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North America. The event was witnessed by U.S. President George Washington.
1832 - Abraham Lincoln announced that he would run for a political office for the first time. He was unsuccessful in his run for a seat in the Illinois state legislature.
1989 - In the U.S., President Bush urged for a mandatory death penalty in drug-related killings.
2006 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law a renewal of the USA Patriot Act.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama removed limits on using federal funds for embryonic stem cell research that had been put in place by U.S. President George W. Bush.
| "A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man." - U.S. President John Adams |