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The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
March 3 — Lunar probe Pioneer 4 becomes the first American object to escape dominance by Earth's gravity. March 11 — A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry opens on Broadway in New York City. March 18 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.
Nina Khrushcheva, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower at a state dinner at the White House on 27 September 1959. The state visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States was a 13-day visit from 15–27 September 1959. It marked the first state visit of a Soviet or Russian leader to the US.
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
First president to visit South America while in office. [ch] [249] First president to fly in an airplane while in office. [250] First president to make a transatlantic flight. [ci] [251] First president to fly for state business in 1943. [252] First president to visit Iran. [253] First president to visit Africa in office. [254]
The claim: John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States. In the past few years, multiple social media posts have declared John Hanson, not Barack Obama, as the first Black ...
The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
George Washington, widely viewed as the first president, was elected into office in 1789 after leading the Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.