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President Ulysses S. Grant awarded Michelson a special appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy in 1869.
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On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.
One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.
* 1870 – President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U. S. Weather Bureau.
A dispute with Britain over the island of Bolama was settled in Portugal's favor with the involvement of U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
* 1872 – Reconstruction: U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
" As well as meeting many influential New Yorkers, Bartholdi visited President Ulysses S. Grant, who assured him that it would not be difficult to obtain the site for the statue.
General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln initially opposed the plan until Sherman convinced them of its necessity.
President Ulysses S. Grant sent in federal troops to restore the elected mayor.
Ulysses S. Grant ( born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885 ) was the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ) following his dominant role in the second half of the Civil War.
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* Ulysses S. Grant ( 1822 – 1885 ), American General and the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 )
Alphonso Taft went to Cincinnati in 1839 to open a law practice, and was a prominent Republican who served as Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant.
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* President Ulysses S. Grant ( United States )
* December 14 – Julia Grant, wife of President Ulysses S. Grant ( b. 1826 )
* July 23 – Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War general and the 18th President of the United States, dies at age 63.
* July 23 – Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War general and the 18th President of the United States ( b. 1822 )
* March 4 – President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant begins his second term.
* April 20 – U. S President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Civil Rights Act.
** Reconstruction: U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law, restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
** Horace Greeley, President Ulysses S. Grant's opponent in the 1872 U. S. presidential election, dies.
** Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States, succeeding Ulysses S. Grant as a result of the Compromise of 1877
* March 4 – Ulysses S. Grant succeeds Andrew Johnson as the 18th President of the United States of America.
* April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States ( d. 1885 )
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While Angola's foreign policy shifted to a pro-U. S. stance based on substantial economic ties, under the rule of President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe's ties with the West soured in the late 1990s.
Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.
In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.
* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
* 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.
That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U. S. President Richard Nixon.
Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U. S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
* 1841 – U. S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States.
* 1858 – U. S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
* 1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U. S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Rep. Samuel S. Cox saw Johnson at this time and remarked that, when asked if the President would modify his views, " He got as ugly as the devil.
* 1970 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
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