United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand side.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Truman faced an enormous challenge simply by being the person to follow Roosevelt as President, let alone the ongoing struggles of the Second World War.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States.
The Revolución Libertadora began in Argentina, resulting in the end of Juan Perón’s second term as President.
Nixon announced his resignation in a televised speech on 8 August and it took effect from noon the next day.
James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.
Shortly after his inauguration, Harrison developed a cold that worsened into pneumonia from which he died. As well as becoming the first U.S. president to die in office this also marked the shortest presidency in US history.
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.
Weighing more than half a ton, the completed cheese was marked with the Jeffersonian motto ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God’ and was presented to President Jefferson on January 1, 1802.
Pedro Lascuráin began the shortest presidential term in history when he became President of Mexico for less than an hour.
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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