U.S. President History
1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America.
1826 - The second president of the United States, John Adams, died.
1826 - The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, died.
1831 - The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, died.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln, in a speech to Congress, stated the war is..."a People's contest... a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men..."
1872 - Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth, VT. In 1923, he became the 30th President of the United States.
1966 - U.S. President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year.
1981 - Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.
- U.S. President Reagan, July 4, 1981
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