f the USA, after the US Supreme Court stopped the recount of votes in Florida.
13/12/2000, US Vice President Al Gore conceded the Presidential election to Texas Governor George W Bush, over a month after the actual election. Gore had won a slim 0.3% majority on 8/11/2000, but the final result rested on the contested Florida vote. The final result, with 102 million votes, was decided by a margin of 537 votes in Florida.
26/11/2000, George W Bush was certified the winner of the controversial 25 electoral-college votes in Florida, which gave him victory in the US Presidential elections.
20/1/1997, President Clinton began his second term of office.
5/11/1996. Bill Clinton won the US elections. He was re-elected for a second term, seeing off a challenge by the Republican Bob Dole. Clinton was better at attracting the female than male vote. However only 49% of the electorate bothered to vote at all, the lowest turnout since 1924.
22/4/1994, Richard Nixon, 37th US President, (born 1913) died.
20/1/1993. Bill Clinton sworn in as the 42nd US President. Prayers were said by the Reverend Billy Graham. The Iraqi official media advised former President Bush to commit suicide.
3/11/1992. Bill Clinton, 46 year old Governor of Arkansas, was elected 42nd US President, winning decisively over the incumbent, Republican President George Bush. Clinton got 43.7 million votes, Bush got 38.2 million and the independent Ross Perot got 19.2 million.
11/1/1989. President Reagan delivered his farewell speech to the USA.
8/11/1988. George Bush became Republican President of the USA, defeating George Dukakis of the Democrats.
7/11/1984. President Reagan won the US elections, for a second term, with a landslide victory. His opponent Walter F Mondale lost in 49 states and only carried his home state, Minnesota, by 3,761 votes.
20/1/1981. Ronald Reagan, Republican, sworn in as President of the USA; the oldest person to take this office. He was elected on 4/11/1980, with a landslide majority. The Republicans gained control of the Senate for the first time in 26 years.
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 headquar