#p <nat>American<o>general<o>president<n>George Washington<b>1732<d>1799<el>1789<ret>1797<info>George Washington was the first president of the U.S.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>John Adams<b>1735 Oct 30<d>1826 Jul 4<el>1797<ret>1801<c>Massachusetts<mov>1774<c>Philadelphia<mov>1776<c>Paris<mov>1777(1)<c>Massachusetts<mov>1779 Nov<c>London<c>Paris<c>Netherlands<arr>1782 Oct<c>Paris<mov>1785<c>London<mov>1788<c>Massachusetts<info>John Adams was the second president of the U.S. In 1774-1776, Adams was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. After 18 months, he became an American commissioner to France. In November 1779, he set sail as a commissioner to seek peace with Britain. After quarrels in Paris with Benjamin Franklin and French officials, he left for the Netherlands, where he secured Dutch recognition of American independence and a substantial loan as well. He returned to Paris in October 1782 to insist on American rights in the negotiations that led to Britain's recognition of the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris of September 3, 1783. For two more years Adams helped Franklin and Jefferson negotiate treaties of friendship and commerce with numerous foreign powers. Then, appointed the first American minister to Britain, Adams presented his credentials to George III in 1785. He was the first vice-president (1789-1797) and then the second president of the United States.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Thomas Jefferson<b>1743<d>1826<el>1801<ret>1809<info>Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the U.S. DNA tests in 1998 proved that he had at least one child with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.
// James Madison, fourth President of the United States<b>1751 Mar 16
#p <nat>American<o>president<o>general<n>Andrew Jackson<b>1767 Mar 15<d>1845<el>1829<ret>1837<info>Jackson was the 7th president of the U.S.
// John Tyler, 10th President of the United States<b>1790 Mar 29
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Abraham Lincoln<b>1809<d>1865<el>1861<ret>1865<info>Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S.
// Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States<b>1837 Mar 18
// McKinley 1900-1901; assassinated
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Theodore Roosevelt<sur>T. Roosevelt<b>1858 Oct 27<pow>1901<el>1904<ret>1912<d>1919
// William Taft<el>1909<ret>1913
// Woodrow Wilson<el>1913<ret>1921
// Warren Harding<el>1921<ret>1923
// Calvin Coolidge<el>1923<ret>1929
// Herbert Hoover<el>1929<ret>1933
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Franklin Delano Roosevelt<sur>F. D. Roosevelt<b>1882 Jan 30<el>1932<d>1945 Apr 12<c>D.C.
// Harry Truman<el>1945<ret>1953
// Dwight Eisenhower<el>1953<ret>1961
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>John Fitzgerald Kennedy<b>1917<el>1960 Nov<d>1963 Nov 22<c>D.C.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Lyndon Johnson<b>1908 Aug 27<app>1963 Nov 22<ret>1969 Jan<d>1973 Jan 22<c>Texas<mov>1961<c>D.C.<mov>1969 Jan<c>Texas<info>Lyndon Johnson was the 36th president of the U.S. As Kennedy's vice president, he came to power in November, 1963, following Kennedy's assassination. He was re-elected in 1964.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Richard Nixon<b>1913 Jan 9<el>1968 Nov<ret>1974 Aug 9<d>1994 Apr<c>D.C.<info>Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the U.S. He was president Eisenhower's vice-president from 1952 to 1960, but he lost against J. F. Kennedy when he ran for president in 1960. Nixon ran again in 1968 and was elected. He was re-elected in 1972.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Gerald Ford<b>1913<app>1974 Aug 9<ret>1977 Jan<c>D.C.<info>Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States on August 9, 1974, the day Richard Nixon resigned.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Jimmy Carter<b>1924 Oct 1<el>1976 Nov 2<ret>1981 Jan<c>Georgia<mov>1976<c>D.C.<mov>1981<c>Georgia<info>Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Ronald Reagan<b>1911 Feb 6<el>1980 Nov 4<ret>1989 Jan<c>D.C.<info>Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. He was re-elected to a second term as president on November 6, 1984.
#e <d>1981 Mar 30<n>Reagan shot<c>U.S.<info>Ronald Reagan is shot in an assassination attempt by John Hinkley.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>George Bush<b>1924 Jun 12<el>1988 Nov 8<ret>1993 Jan<c>D.C.<info>George Bush was the 41st president of the United States. He served as vice-president to Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989, and became the first sitting vice-president to be elected president in his own right since Martin Van Buren in 1836.
#p <nat>American<o>president<n>Bill Clinton<b>1946 Aug 19<el>1992 Nov 3<el>1996 Nov<c>Arkansas<mov>1992<c>D.C.<info>William Jefferson Clinton is the 42nd president of the United States.
#e <t>massacre<d>1770 Mar 5<n>Boston Massacre<c>Boston<info>British soldiers fired on a mob in the Boston Massacre.
#e <t>speech<d>1775 Mar 23<n>"Give me liberty..."<c>U.S.<info>Patrick Henry, according to tradition, declared "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
#e <t>war<n>War of Independence<d>1775<e>1783<c>U.S.
#e <t>plague<d>1793 Aug<e>1793 Nov<n>Yellow Fever<c>Philadelphia<info>The Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793<ref>Sci Am 98 Aug
// 1801-1850
#e <t>constr<d>1802 Jul 4<n>West Point Military Academy opens<c>West Point
#e <d>1848<n>California gold rush<c>California
// 1851-1900
#p <nat>American<o>general<n>Douglas Mac Arthur<sur>Mac Arthur<b>1880<d>1964
#p <nat>American<n>Eleanor Roosevelt<sur>E. Roosevelt<fem><b>1884 Oct 11<d>1962 Nov 7
#e <t>war<n>U.S. Civil War<d>1861<e>1865<c>U.S.
#e <t>speech<d>1863 Nov 19<n>Gettysburg Address<c>Gettysburg<au>Abraham Lincoln
#e <t>treaty<d>1867 Mar 30<n>U.S. buys Alaska<c>Alaska<info>U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000.
#e <t>law<d>1870 Mar 30<n>15th Amendment<c>U.S.<info>Amendment 15 to the U.S. Constitution proclaimed that a person cannot be denied the ballot because of race or colour.
#e <t>fire<d>1871 Oct 8<n>Chicago<c>Chicago<info>The great Chicago fire began on this day.
#e <t>sculpture<tit>Statue of Liberty unveiled<d>1886 Oct 26<c>New York City<info>The poet who wrote the inscription at its base, Emma Lazarus, died the next year on November 19.
// 1901-1920
#e <t><d>1918 Mar 31<n>Daylight Saving Time<c>U.S.<info>Daylight Saving Time goes into effect in the United States.
#p <nat>American<o>leader<n>Martin Luther King Jr.<sur>King Jr.<b>1929 Jan 15<d>1968
#e <t>trial<d>1925 Jul<n>Scopes trial<c>Tennessee<info>In March 1925 the state of Tennessee forbade the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. John T. Scopes, a schoolteacher, was tried in July of that year for violating the law. His trial became a public confrontation between a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible and more liberal views. The prosecution was conducted by William Jennings Bryan, a former presidential candidate, and the famous criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow conducted the defense. Both men volunteered their services. At one point Darrow cross-examined Bryan, who proved deficient in both Biblical and biological knowledge. Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was overturned by the state supreme court, which nevertheless upheld the statute. The U.S. Supreme Court declared a similar statute unconstitutional in 1968.
#e <t>financial<d>1929 Oct 29<n>Black Tuesday<c>New York<info>stock market crash
#e <t>fire<n>Hindenburg<d>1937 May 6<c>New Jersey
// 1941-1960
#p <nat>American<o>airman<n>James Harold Doolittle<b>1896 Dec 14<d>1993 Sep 27<c>California<info>Doolittle led the first bombing raid over Tokyo.
#e <t>bombardment<d>1942 Apr 18<n>Doolittle bombs Tokyo<c>Tokyo<info>The first bombing raid over Tokyo was led by U.S. airman Doolittle.
#e <t>business<d>1955<n>McDonald's opens<c>Illinois<info>The first McDonald's restaurant was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.
// 1961-1980
#e <t>speech<n>"I have a dream..."<au>King Jr.<d>1963<c>D.C.
#e <t>assassination<d>1963 Nov 22<n>Kennedy assassinated<c>Dallas
#e <t>assassination<n>King Jr. assassinated<c>Memphis, TN<d>1968
#e <t><d>1979 Mar 28<n>Three Mile Island<c>Harrisburg<info>The core of a commercial nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island melts down.
// 1981-1990
#e <t>bombing<d>1983 Oct 23<n>Car bomb destroys U.S. Marine barracks<c>Beruit
#e <t>battle<d>1983 Oct 25<n>U.S. forces invade Grenada<c>Grenada
#e <t>disaster<d>1989<n>Exxon Valdez<c>Alaska<info>The tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. It is the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
// 1991-2000
#e <d>1997 Nov 19<c>Des Moines<n>McCaughey septuplets born
#e <t>bombing<d>1998 Aug 7<n>U.S. embassy in Kenya bombed<c>Nairobi
#e <t>bombing<d>1998 Aug 7<n>U.S. embassy in Tanzania bombed<c>Dar es Salaam
#e <t>bombardment<d>1998 Aug 20<n>U.S. bombs terrorist base<c>Afghanistan
#e <t>bombardment<d>1998 Aug 20<n>U.S. bombs suspected weapons plant<c>Sudan
#e <t>bombardment<d>1998 Dec 16<e>1998 Dec 19<n>Iraq bombarded<c>Iraq<info>Following he U.S. bombards Iraq with Tomahawk cruise missiles. The U.K. joins in on nightly bombing on the 17th. The bombardment ends the night before the month of Ramadan begins.
#e <d>1998 Dec 19<n>Clinton impeached<c>D.C.
#e <d>1999 Jan 14<e>1999 Feb 12<n>Clinton's impeachment trial<c>D.C.<info>There were two charges in the articles of impeachment against president Clinton following the Lewinski affair. A two-thirds vote was required to convict him of the charges, but neither received even a simple majority.
// Southeast Asia
#e <t>battle<d>1964 Aug 2<n>U.S. destroyers attacked<info>by North Vietnamese patrol boats<c>Gulf of Tonkin
#e <t>battle<d>1968 Jan 30<n>Tet offensive<info>launched by North Vietnam<c>South Vietnam
#e <t>surrender<d>1975 Apr 24<n>South Vietnam surrenders<info>to North Vietnam<c>South Vietnam
#e <t>battle<d>1979 Feb 17<n>Chinese invade Vietnam<info>between 200,000 and 300,000 troops<c>Vietnam
