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.
Continue reading U.S. President Ronald Reagan born in Tampico, Illinois 110 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 6 1911)
Video: 'Texas in the Civil War'
(Friday, February 1, 1861; 12 weeks after the 1860 United States presidential election) — 87 days after Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election of 1860 on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, Texas became the seventh state to leave the Union today when the the Texas Legislature voted 166-7 to secede.
Continue reading Texas becomes seventh Southern state to secede from the Union 160 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 1 1861)
Video: 'NASA's First Trained Astronaut in Space'
(Tuesday, January 31, 1961, 11:55 a.m. EST) — A 37-pound male chimpanzee nicknamed “Ham” was rocketed into space today from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard Mercury-Redstone 2 in a test of the Project Mercury capsule that is scheduled to carry a human astronaut into orbit.
Continue reading NASA launches rocket carrying Ham the Chimp into space 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 31 1961)
Video: 'Dick Cheney - A Heartbeat Away'
(Thursday, January 30, 1941) — Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States who served during the administration of President George W. Bush (2001-2009), was born Richard Bruce Cheney today in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Continue reading U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney born in Lincoln, Nebraska 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 30 1941)
Video: 'Kansas - 50 States - US Geography'
(Tuesday, January 29, 1861; during ) — Following the succession of six Southern states over the issue of preserving slavery, President James Buchanan signed a bill today officially admitting Kansas, located in the Midwestern United States, as a free state.
Continue reading Kansas enters the Union as a free state 160 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 29 1861)
Video: 'Louisiana in the Civil War'
(Saturday, January 26, 1861; 11 weeks after the 1860 United States presidential election) — 81 days after Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election of 1860 on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, Louisiana became the sixth state to secede today when delegates to the Secession Convention meeting in Baton Rouge voted 113 to 17 to leave the Union.
Continue reading Louisiana becomes sixth Southern state to secede from the Union 160 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 26 1861)
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy's First Televised News Conference of January 25, 1961'
(Wednesday, January 25, 1961, 6:00 p.m. EST) — Five days after being inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy held the first ever live presidential news conference tonight at the State Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
Continue reading JFK becomes first U.S. president to hold a live televised news conference 60 years ago this hour (Jan 25 1961)
Video: 'NBC NEWS INAUGURATION 1961 (1-20-1961)'
(Friday, January 20, 1961, 12:51 p.m. EST) — Calling for “a grand and global alliance” to combat tyranny, poverty, disease and war, former Massachusetts U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, 43, was inaugurated today as the 35th President of the United States on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., with Chief Justice Earl Warren administering the oath of office.
Continue reading JFK sworn in as 35th President of the United States, LBJ as 37th VP 60 years ago this hour (Jan 20 1961)
Video: 'Iran Hostage Crisis: Release of 52 Hostages in 1981 (ABC News Report From 1/20/1981)'
(Tuesday, January 20, 1981, 8:55 p.m. Iran Standard Time/12:25 p.m. EST) — The Iran hostage crisis, a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran in which 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days, ended today only 25 minutes after Jimmy Carter’s term as the 39th President of the United States had ended.
Continue reading 52 U.S. hostages held in Iran fly to freedom after 444-day ordeal 40 years ago this hour (Jan 20 1981)
Video: 'President Roosevelt's Inauguration On Sleeve As President Roosevelts (1941)'
(Monday, January 20, 1941, 12:11 p.m. EST) — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 58, was inaugurated today for an unprecedented third term of office on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., with Chief Justice Charles Hughes administering the oath of office.
Continue reading FDR inaugurated for unprecedented third term, Henry A. Wallace as 33rd VP 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 20 1941)
