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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]
September 14 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 becomes the first human-made object to crash on the Moon. September 15–28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower. September 16 – The Xerox 914, the first plain paper copier, is introduced to the public.
First president to expand the country's territory [51] [52] First president to have pets at the White House; two grizzly bear cubs and a mockingbird. [53] [54] First president to found a university after being in office; the University of Virginia in 1819. [55] First president to serve as rector of a university (University of Virginia). [56]
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.
The first trip by a sitting president to South Asia was by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959. Of the eight countries in the region, only 4 of them have been visited by a sitting American president: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Only one president died in office from natural causes (Francisco Javier Zaldúa y Racines). Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda, the first president of the United States of Colombia, had actually started his tenure in 1861 (he became the third and last president of the Granadine Confederation with a coup).
Earlier in 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon visited the Soviet Union, attending a tour of the American National Exhibition in Moscow. He and Khrushchev took part in what later became known as the Kitchen Debate, in which both Nixon and Khrushchev defended their country's respective economic systems.
After appointing himself president of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria - INRA), on 17 May 1959, Castro signed into law the First Agrarian Reform, heavily influenced by Che Guevara, which limited landholdings to 993 acres (4.02 km 2) per owner. He additionally forbade further foreign land-ownership.