U.S. President History
1732 - George Washington was born. He became the first president of the United States.
1861 - U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln left Harrisburg and covertly traveled to Washington. Allen Pinkerton had uncovered a plot to assassinate Lincoln when he passed through Baltimore. Lincoln arrived unceremoniously in Washington the next morning.
1889 - North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington were admitted to the Union with U.S. President Cleveland signed a bill.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt sent orders for General Douglas MacArthur to get out of the Philippines.
1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Iraq that stated that Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait to avoid the start of a ground war.
| "No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law." - Grover Cleveland |