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Ronald Reagan Timeline
Ronald Reagan was the fortieth president of the United States. He won the Republican Party nomination in 1980 by out-gunning other candidates like Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush. At 69, he became the oldest president to be elected. |
Here is a timeline of Ronald Reagan:
1911: Ronald Reagan is born on February 6 in Tampico Illinois to Nelle Wilson Reagan and John Edward Reagan. He was the second son.
1920: The Reagan family finally settled down in Dixon, Illinois, which Reagan considered his hometown.
1926: Reagan started working as a lifeguard at Lowell Park. He worked there for 7 summers and saved around 77 people.
1928: Graduates from Dixon High School.
1928 to 1932: Reagan joins Eureka College where he majored in Economics and Sociology. It is during this time that he got interested in drama.
1932: Reagan becomes a sports broadcaster in a small radio station in Davenport, Iowa. It here that Reagan gets national exposure after the radio station collaborates with an NBC affiliate.
1937: Reagan joins the Army Reserve as a private, but gets promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Calvary. This is the time that a Warner Brothers agent sees Reagan and offers him a 7 year contract.
1940: After joining Hollywood, Reagan marries Jane Wyman. The two had met during the making of the movie Brother Rat.
1941: Reagan's daughter Maureen is born.
1942: Reagan gets called for active duty and is assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit. He ended up making 400 training films.
1945: Once the Second World War ended, Reagan returns to Hollywood to continue making films, which he does for the next 20 years.
1947: Reagan is elected the president of the Screen Actors Guild for the first time.
1949: Reagan and Jane Wyman divorce.
1952: Reagan marries Nancy Davis in March.
1962: Reagan changes his affiliations from Democratic to Republican by officially changing his party registration.
1966: Reagan becomes the governor of California by beating the incumbent governor Edmund G Brown.
1968: He tries to run for presidency but then ends up supporting Richard Nixon.
1970: Reagan is re-elected as the governor of California.
1975: He announces his nomination for presidency but loses it to Gerald Ford.
1979: Once again he announces his candidature for presidency and wins the Republican Party nomination. He chooses George H.W. Bush as his running mate.
1980: Has landslide victory over the incumbent president Jimmy Carter.
1981: He is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States on January 20. The same day Iran released 53 American hostages held from November 1979. In March, Reagan is shot in the chest in an assassination attempt. In June, the Congress passes Tax Bill. Taxes are reduced to 25 percent. In September, Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Supreme Court Justice.
1982: The country falls into deep depression, its worst since the Great Depression.
1983: In March, Reagan puts forth his proposal for a Strategic Defense Initiative, which later on gets termed as the Star Wars program. In October, US troops invade Grenada to oust the communist government and protect US medical students studying there.
1984: Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in the presidential election to win a second term in office.
1985: When Reagan is sworn in as the president, he is 75 years old.
1986: Reagan authorizes air strikes against Libya for bombing a disco in West Berlin where two US servicemen are killed and more than 200 people were injured. In November, the Iran-Contra affair is gradually coming out leading to the resignation of National Security Advisor John Poindexter. Colonel Oliver North, the National Security Aide, is fired.
1987: Reagan fires Chief of Staff Donald Regan under pressure from all quarters. In March, Reagan acknowledges the mistakes committed in the Iran-Contra affair. In December, Reagan and Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty and agree to eliminate 4 percent of the nuclear arsenal.
1988: Vice President George H. W. Bush defeats Michael Dukakis, the governor of Massachusetts, to become the 41st president of the United States.
1989: Reagan has a surgery to remove fluid from his brain. In November, the Berlin Wall is torn down allowing the unification of East and West Germany.
1994: Reagan finally tells the world that he is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
2004: On June 5, Ronald Reagan passes away at the age of 93.
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