U.S. President History
1833 - Benjamin Henry Harrison was born. He became the twenty-third president of the United States.
1866 - It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy said that he opposed job quotas based on race.
1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
2015 - Former President Jimmy Carter announced that he had cancer on four small spots on his brain and that he would immediately begin radiation treatment.
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