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President Robinson ( 1990 – 97 ) chose unilaterally to break the taboo by regularly visiting the United Kingdom for public functions, frequently in connection with Anglo-Irish Relations or to visit the Irish emigrant community in Great Britain.
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His middle name was in honor of former President Theodore Roosevelt, who died twenty-five days before Robinson was born.
President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.
Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) and is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.
* 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
However, it was Hillery's successor, seventh President Mary Robinson, who ultimately revolutionized the presidency.
The winner of an upset victory in the highly controversial election of 1990, Robinson was the Labour nominee, the first President to defeat Fianna Fáil in an election and the first female President.
Between 1990 and 2010, both Robinson and her successor President McAleese ( 1997 – 2011 ) visited the Palace on numerous occasions, while senior royals-the Prince of Wales, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh all visited both Presidents of Ireland at Áras an Uachtaráin.
President Robinson jointly hosted a reception with the Queen at St. James's Palace, London, in 1995, to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Queen's Colleges in 1845 ( the Queen's Colleges are now known as Queen's University of Belfast, University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway ).
President McAleese, who is herself the first President of Ireland to have been born in Northern Ireland, continued on from President Robinson in this regard.
Taking a page from the United States Supreme Court, President Robinson appointed Patrick Manning Prime Minister despite the fact that the UNC won the popular vote and that Panday was the sitting Prime Minister.
* November 11 – Mary McAleese is elected the 8th President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.
* November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.
** Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland, becoming the first female to hold this office.
* Vice President – Phil Alden Robinson
* They included Sir Arnold Robinson ( played by John Nettleton ), Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister and later President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information ;
He also criticized the leaders of both parties for failing to address the crisis adequately, most notably attacking conservative Senate Democratic Leader Joseph Robinson of Arkansas for his apparent closeness with President Herbert Hoover and ties to big business.
The PHIA is governed by an Executive Board that includes Dennis Robinson, President ; Elmer Klein, Vice-President ; William Libercci, Treasurer ; Howard Wille, Secretary ; and Jack Amrhein, Diane Brazil, Christopher Defeo, Lorrie Erdman, and Ann Palrang, at-large members.
President and 1990
It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.
Speech cards used by President George H. W. Bush at the signing ceremony of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) on July 26, 1990.
Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.
President Aylwin served from 1990 to 1994, in what was considered a transition period.
The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.
In 1990, the administration of President César Gaviria Trujillo ( 1990 – 94 ) initiated economic liberalism policies or " apertura economica " and this has continued since then, with tariff reductions, financial deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and adoption of a more liberal foreign exchange rate.
In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power ; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when the country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished.
He is the current President of Nicaragua ( since 2007 ), a position he has held previously between 1985 and 1990.
Quainoo led the force from July 1990 to September 1990, before being superseded by a Nigerian officer in the aftermath of Liberian President Samuel Doe's death.
Some of those rates were legally recognized in 1990 when President Callejas introduced a major series of economic policy reforms, which included reducing the maximum import tariff rate from 90 percent to 40 percent and getting rid of most surcharges and exemptions.
President Callejas responded to the severe poverty by implementing a specially financed Honduran Social Investment Fund ( Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social — FHIS ) in 1990.
Bardeen was one of 11 recipients given the Third Century Award from President George H. W. Bush in 1990 for " exceptional contributions to American society " and was granted a gold medal from the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1988.
In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.
* 1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush.
Sununu opposed it at first as did most of the Cabinet, but in August 1990 Sununu, at the urging of United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, encouraged President Bush to endorse Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force.
November 1990, ECOWAS agreed with some principal Liberian players but without Charles Taylor, on an Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) under President Dr. Amos Sawyer.
An Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) was formed in Gambia under the auspices of ECOWAS in October 1990 and Dr. Amos Sawyer became President.
In fact, in July 1990, President Gayoom officially pardoned Nasir in absentia in recognition of his role in obtaining Maldives ' independence.
* 1951 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician, 21st President of Liberia ( d. 1990 )
* 1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
* 1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
* 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
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Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".
In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.
President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865
* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).
* 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador
* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )
* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )
* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )
* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa
* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.
* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
* 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )
* 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
* 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )
* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )
* 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic ( d. 1966 )
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