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4/11/1980, In US Presidential elections, the former Republican Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin, exactly one year after the Iranian hostage crisis began. Reagan became the 40th President.
17/7/1980. Ronald Reagan was chosen as candidate by the US Republican Party.
20/1/1977. Jimmy Carter became 39th President of the USA.
2/11/1976. (+11,501) President Jimmy ‘peanuts’ (James Earl) Carter became 39th (Democrat) President of the USA, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford.
12/12/1974, Jimmy Carter said he would run for US Presidency.
6/12/1973. Gerald Ford sworn in as US Vice President.
12/10/1973. In the US, President Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford as Vice President.
22/1/1973, Lyndon Johnson, US Democrat President from 1963 to 1969, died of a heart attack in San Antonio, Texas.
26/12/1972. Harry S Truman, Democrat, 23rd US President 1945-53, died in Independence, Missouri, aged 88.
7/11/1972. Richard Nixon was re-elected President of the USA for a second four year term.
28/3/1969, Dwight D Eisenhower, American Army Commander and Republican 34th President 1953 to 1961, died in Washington.
20/1/1969. President Nixon was sworn in as US President.
5/11/1968 Richard Milhous Nixon, born 9/1/1913, won the 37th Presidency of the USA by a narrow majority. He had stood for election in 1960 but was defeated by John F Kennedy. J F Kennedy was born on 29/5/1917.
20/1/1965, LB Johnson was inaugurated as US President.
4/11/1964. Lyndon B Johnson was elected 36th US President.
20/10/1964, Herbert Hoover, American Republican and 31st President from 1929 to 1933, died in New York City aged 90.
25/11/1963, State funeral of President Kennedy.
22/11/1963. John F Kennedy assassinated, in Dallas, Texas, during the run up to the 1964 USA presidential election. He had become President of the USA in 1960, defeating Richard M Nixon. Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with the killing, was shot on 24/11/1963 by club owner Jack Ruby at Dallas Police headquarters. Vice President Lyndon Johnson completed the remainder of his term. See 14/3/1964.
4/8/1961, Barak Hussein Obama, first African-American President (44th) of the USA from 2009, was born.
9/11/1960. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1919-63),Democrat, became President of the USA, with 34,227,096 votes against 34,108,546 votes for Nixon. Aged 43, Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic president and the youngest so far.
10/1/1957. Eisenhower was elected President of the USA, defeating the Democrat challenger, Adlai Stevenson, to win a second term in office. He continued US vigilance against Communism, and supported countries fighting off USSR and China-backed insurgents. He also pledged to continue to support the UN.
20/1/1953. Dwight D Eisenhower’s first address to the USA as President.
4/11/1952. Dwight Eisenhower elected President of the USA.
27/2/1951, The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. This limited Presidential terms of office to 2 terms.
19/1/1949. In the US, President Truman was inaugurated.
2/11/1948. Harry S Truman was re-elected as president of the USA.
12/4/1945. Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd President from 1933, Democrat, died, aged 63, having suffered a massive stroke that day at Warm Springs, Georgia.. He was succeeded by Vice President Harry S Truman, as 33rd President of the USA.
7/11/1944. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in the USA.
20/7/1944. Roosevelt was nominated for a fourth term.
5/11/1940. Roosevelt was elected President of the USA for a record third term.
20/1/1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt won an overwhelming victory, gaining every US State except Maine and Vermont. His victory was due to his New Deal Campaign of relief from the effects of the Great Depression.
3/11/1936. President Roosevelt, Democrat, was re-elected.
5/12/1933. Prohibition Laws repealed in the USA, by the 21st Amendment, after over 13 dry years, leaving individual States free to determine their known drinks laws. See 16/1/1920. Utah was the last state to ratify the