Video: 'Ronald Reagan: Movie Star Turned President | Full Documentary | Biography'

(Monday, February 6, 1911, 4:16 a.m. local time) — Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989, was born today in an apartment on the second floor of a commercial building in Tampico, Illinois.

Video: 'Ronald Reagan - The Making of a Leader (Full Documentary)'

Prior to his presidency, Reagan was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975.