U.S. President History
1775 - George Washington was appointed head of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
1849 - The eleventh president of the United States, James Knox Polk, died.
1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell "potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student's teacher.
| "My position is that the foreign policy of the United States says we do not believe there should be new settlements in the West Bank or in East Jerusalem. And I will conduct that policy as if it's firm, which it is, and I will be shaped in whatever decisions we make to see whether people can comply with that policy. And that's our strongly held view." - President George H.W. Bush, press conference, March 3, 1990 |