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| 1865 | 13th Amendment Johnson, Andrew |  |
| 6th Dec The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is passed |
| 1989 | 1st African American Governor Wilder, Douglas | |
| 26th Jan Virginia Douglas Wilder, the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, launches his successful campaign to become the first elected black Governor of a USAstate |
| 1990 | 1st African American Governor Wilder, Douglas | |
| 13th Jan Virginia 1st elected African-American Governor in the United States |
| 1967 | 1st African American Senator Brooke, Edward | |
| 10th Jan Massachusetts Elected Senator for Massachusetts, 1st African-American senator |
| 1932 | 1st Female Senator Caraway, Hattie | |
| 12th Jan 1st woman elected to the USASenate |
| 1932 | 1st Female Senator Caraway, Hattie | |
| 12th Jan 1st woman elected to the USASenate |
| 1846 | 49th Parallel Polk, James Knox | |
| 15th June 49th Parallel The treaty of Washington declares the 49th Parallel boundary at Canada & Oregon |
| 1996 | Accords of Dayton Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Dayton Ends the 3 1/2 yrs of war in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Dayton The peace agreement reached at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio |
| 14th Dec Dayton Initiated in Dayton, Ohio on November 21, 1995 the full formal agreement is signed in Paris |
| 1998 | Accords of Good Friday Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Chaired by former USASenator George Mitchell, the talks are advanced by a high-profile set of mediators, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, and President Bill Clinton |
| 1998 | Accords of Good Friday Mitchel, George | |
| Chaired by former USASenator George Mitchell, the talks are advanced by a high-profile set of mediators, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, and President Bill Clinton |
| 1993 | Accords of Oslo Christopher, Warren | |
| 20th Aug Witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of USAPresident Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the PLO's Chairman Yasser Arafat |
| 1993 | Accords of Oslo Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 20th Aug Witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of USAPresident Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the PLO's Chairman Yasser Arafat |
| 1924 | Agent General Young, Owen | |
| Appointed Agent General for reparations during inauguration of the Dawes plan |
| 1962 | Agreement Geneva Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 5th Oct Geneva Following the Geneva Agreement military advisers & technicians are withdrawn from Laos |
| 1961 | Aid to Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Washington Commits $20 billion to the "sister republics" in aid to Latin America over 10 yrs |
| 1961 | Aid to Latin America Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Washington Commits $20 billion to the "sister republics" in aid to Latin America over 10 yrs |
| 1924 | Allied Reparations Committee Dawes, Charles Gates | |
| The Dawes committee is entrusted with finding a solution for the collection of the German reparations debt following World War I, set at 132 billion gold marks, appointed by the Allied Reparations Committee |
| 1929 | Allied Reparations Committee Young, Owen | |
| 7th June The Reparations Committee, is appointed by the Allied Reparation Committee, meets in the first half of 1929, and submits it's first report |
| 1929 | Ambassador Dawes, Charles Gates | |
| London Appointed Ambassador to Britain |
| 1961 | Ambassador Kennan, George | |
| Belgrade Appointed Ambassador to Yugoslavia |
| 1934 | Amu Settlement Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| April Japan issues the "Amu-Settlement", a "hands off" China warning to the USA & Britain |
| 1933 | Armament Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| The Navy Dept is allocated $238 million to build 32 new warships |
| 1968 | Assassination Kennedy, Robert Francis | |
| 5th June Los Angeles Assassinated in a hotel after leaving a primary victory celebration |
| 1941 | Assistant Secretary State Acheson, Dean Gooderham | |
| Washington Appointed Assistant Secretary of State |
| 1961 | Atlantic Free Trade Zone Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Washington Passes the Trade Expansion Act to try & establish an Atlantic Free Trade Zone |
| 1961 | Attorney Kennedy, Robert Francis | |
| Washington Appointed Attorney General |
| 1976 | Attorney Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Appointed State Attorney General |
| 1930 | Bank for International Settlements Young, Owen | |
| Jan The Young Plan calls for an international bank of settlements to handle the reparations transfers, the resulting Bank for International Settlements was duly established at the Hague Conference |
| 1961 | Bay of Pigs Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations had judged that Castro's policies including the expropriation of USAassets on the island and Cuba's increasing ties with the Soviet Union could not be tolerated |
| Vetoes the CIA plan to provide air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba |
| 17th April Bomber aircraft displaying Cuban Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria markings bomb the Cuban airfields of San Antonio de Los Ba¤os, Antonio Maceo International Airport, and the airfield at Ciudad Libertad |
| 17th April Bombing prior to the Bay of Pigs landing fails because the airstrikes are not continued as originally planned, limited by decisions at the highest level of USAgovernment |
| 17th April Four 2,400-ton chartered transports (named the Houston, Rio Escondido, Caribe, and Atlantico) transported 1,511 Cuban exiles to the Bay of Pigs on the Southern coast of Cuba |
| 17th April Kennedy decides against giving the faltering invasion USAair support (though four USApilots were killed in Cuba during the invasion) because of his opposition to overt intervention |
| 17th April Operation Puma, the code name given to the offensive counter air attacks against the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, called for 48 hours of air strikes |
| 1962 | Bay of Pigs Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 21st Dec Castro and James Donovan, a U.S. lawyer sign an agreement to exchange the 1,113 prisoners for $53 million USAdollars in food and medicine, the money is raised privately |
| 1782 | Birth Buren, Martin van | |
| Kinderhook Birth of Martin van Buren, Kinderhook, New York |
| 1856 | Birth Wilson, Thomas Woodrow | |
| 28th Dec Birth of Thomas Woodrow Wilson |
| 1882 | Birth Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| 30th Jan Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1884 | Birth Roosevelt, Elranor | |
| Birth of Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 1910 | Birth Celebrezze, Anthony | |
| 4th Sep Anzi Birth of Anthony Celebrezze |
| 1917 | Birth Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 2nd May Brookline Birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Brookline, Mass. |
| 1924 | Birth Carter, Jimmy | |
| 1st Oct Plains Birth of Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia |
| 1925 | Birth Kennedy, Robert Francis | |
| Brookline Birth of Robert Francis Kennedy |
| 1946 | Birth Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 19th Aug Hope Birth of Bill Clinton in Hope south west Arkansas |
| 1962 | Blockade of Cuba Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 22nd Oct Washington Orders a weapons blockade of Cuba because of its Soviet missile sites |
| 1999 | Bombing of Iraq Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Supports the bombing of Iraq as sanctions have little effect |
| 1846 | Border Canada Polk, James Knox | |
| 15th June 49th Parallel &nb |
