U.S. President History
1857 - William H. Taft was born. He became the 27th President of the United States, serving from 1909-1913.
1914 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson ordered the Punitive Expedition out of Mexico. The Expedition had been searching for Pancho Villa.
1972 - The Watergate indictments began against seven perpetrators.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton told Haiti's military leaders "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power."
1998 - It was announced that 5.9 million people read The Starr Report on the Internet. 606,000 people read the White House defense of U.S. President Clinton.
| "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - U.S. President John Adams |