ters. 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 Prohibition Laws repealed in the USA, by the 21st Amendment, after over 13 dry years, leaving individual States free to determine their known drinks laws.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 21st Amendment, which nullified the 19th Amendment of 1919 prohibiting the manufacture sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition had not stopped alcohol consumption, but merely driven it underground into the criminal world. America celebrated so much that 1.5 million barrels of beer were drunk the first night. Towns ran dry, and were drunk dry again the next night too. Prohibition had simply created enormous opportunities for organised crime.
5/1/1933, Calvin Coolidge, American Republican statesman and 30th President (1923-1929), died of a heart attack in Northampton, Massachusetts.
8/11/1932. Franklin D Roosevelt, Democrat, promising a New Deal to restore employment, financial security, and welfare, is swept into the White House on a landslide result, beating the sitting Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover. He became the 32nd President of the USA. Roosevelt got 22,822,000 votes against 15,762,000 for Hoover.
8/3/1930. William Howard Taft, American Republican and 27th President from 1909 to 1913, died in Washington.
4/3/1929. Herbert Hoover was inaugurated as the President of the USA.
6/11/1928. Herbert Hoover, Republican, was elected 31st President of the USA.
5/1/1928. Walter Mondale, US Vice-President, was born in Ceylon, Minnesota.
18/8/1927, Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, was born in Plains, Georgia, as Rosalynn Smith.
1/10/1924. US Democrat and 39th President James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, peanut farmer, was born in Plains, Georgia.
12/6/1924, George Bush, Republican and US President, was born in Milton, Massachusetts.
3/2/1924, Woodrow Wilson, Democrat and 28th President of America from 1913 to 1921, also Nobel Prize winner, died and was buried in Washington Cathedral.
3/8/1923, John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) became 30th (Republican) President of the USA, going on to win the election of 1924. He declined to stand for election in 1928 but retired, just before the Wall Street crash.
2/8/1923, Warren Harding, American Republican and 29th President from 1921, died i