n San Francisco on return from a trip to Alaska. The remainder of his term was completed by Calvin Coolidge.
6/7/1921, Nancy Reagan, wife of President Reagan, was born as Nancy Davis.
4/3/1921, Warren Harding was inaugurated as 29th President of the USA.
6/1/1919. US President Theodore Roosevelt died at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York State. He was the 24th President, from 1901 to 1909, and won the Nobel Prize in 1906. Starting his career as Chief of New York Police, he became President in 1901 when William McKinley was assassinated; he was elected in 1904 for a further term.
29/5/1917. US Democrat and 35th President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children. He was America’s first Roman Catholic President, and the youngest to date.
7/11/1916. Woodrow Wilson was re-elected US President.
14/7/1913. US Republican and 38th President, Gerald Ford, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Leslie king Junior.
4/3/1913. Woodrow Wilson became President of the USA.
5/11/1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected US President, the first Democrat President for 20 years. The Republican vote was split between Roosevelt and Taft, allowing Wilson to win with only 42% of the vote.
16/3/1912, Thelma Nixon, wife of America’s 37th President, was born in Ely, Nevada, as Thelma Ryan.
6/2/1911. Ronald Reagan, American Republican and 40th President, was born in Tampico, Illinois.
4/3/1909, William Taft was inaugurated as US President.
3/11/1908. William Howard Taft, Republican candidate, was elected 27th President of the USA.
27/8/1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, American Democrat and 36th President, was born in Johnson City, Texas.
24/6/1908, Grover Cleveland, American Democrat, 22nd and 24th president, between 1865 and 1897, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
8/11/1904. US President Theodore Roosevelt won a second term in the elections.
23/6/1904, US President Roosevelt was nominated by his party for a further term.
14/9/1901. US President William McKinley died in Buffalo, eight days after being shot by an anarchist. Born in Niles, Ohio, on 29/1/1843, McKinley became a teacher and then a brevet major when the Civil War broke out. After the War he studied law and opened a law office in Canton, Ohio. In 1876 McKinley was elected as a Republican to the US House of Representatives and in 1891 became Governor of Ohio. Six years later he became President and earned a reputation as one of the most peace-loving leaders in US history. On the afternoon of 6/9/1901 he was shot at point blank range by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, who was sentenced to death and executed at Auburn Prison, New York, on 29/10/1901. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was then sworn in as 26th president, the youngest at 42.
6/9/1901, Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot US President Mc Kinley at a public reception in Buffalo; he died on the 14/9/1901.
13/3/1901, Benjamin Harrison, American Republican and 23rd President from 1889 to 1893, died in Indianapolis, Indiana.
4/3/1901, US President McKinley was inaugurated.
6/11/1900, In the US, McKinley won the election for the Republicans.
19/6/1900, In the US, the Republicans nominated Roosevelt as US Vice President.
9/9/1897, The Hawaiian Senate approved the US annexation of Hawaii on 16/6/1897. Sugar plantation owners on Hawaii had demanded annexation; however Japan had some 25,000 nationals on Hawaii, and protested at the move.
16/6/1897, The USA annexed the Hawaiian Islands, see 9/9/1897.
5/12/1896, Carl Cori, US biochemist, was born in Prague.
14/11/1896. Mannie Eisenhower, wife of America’s 34th President, was born in Boone, Iowa, as Mannie Doud.
4/7/1894, The republic of Hawaii was declared with 50-year old Judge Sanford Dole as President.
17/1/1893. Rutherford Hayes, US Republican and 19th President from 1877 to 1881, died in Fremont, Ohio.
14/10/1890. Birth of US President Dwight Eisenhower. He was the 34th President, who led the US during World War Two, and was known as ‘Ike’. He was born in Denison, Texas (died 1969).
6/12/1889, Jefferson Davies, US President of the Confederate states, died aged 81.
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