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1946 Born
1975 Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham
, whom he met at Yale Law School. His wife will remain known by her maiden name for a few years.
1992 Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention
in New York City
.
1992 Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. President George H. W. Bush
and businessman H. Ross Perot in the U.S. presidential election.
1993 US President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to Haiti
to enforce United Nations
trade sanctions against the military-led regime in that country
1993 Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush
as the 42nd President of the United States of America.
1993 Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton
as U.S. Attorney General.
1993 U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi
intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur
District of Baghdad
, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush
during his visit to Kuwait
in mid-April.
1993 U.S. President Bill Clinton announces his 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy regarding gays in the American military.
1993 ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' premieres on CBS.
leader Yasir Arafat
and Israel
i prime minister Yitzhak Rabin
, with US President, Bill Clinton.]]
1993 US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
1994 U.S. President
Bill Clinton and Russia
n President Boris Yeltsin
sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine
.
1994 Mary Ellen Withrow begins term of office as Treasurer of the United States, serving under President Bill Clinton.
1994 President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manfacture of new weapons with certain features for a period of 10 years.
1994 Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House
. Duran was later convicted of trying to kill President Bill Clinton.
1994 A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the US
Dollar
, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico
, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This will prompt a US$ 50 billion 'bailout' by the Clinton
administration.
1995 United States
President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico
avert financial collapse.
1995 At Arlington National Cemetery
, U.S. President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103
bombing.
1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit
.
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton vetoes a bill that would have banned partial-birth abortion.
1996 The 1996 Summer Olympics
in Atlanta
, Georgia
, United States
, is opened by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments.
1997 Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States
.
1997 United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning
.
1997 US President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and their families, 25 years after the 40 year "study" was exposed by reporter Jean Heller.
1998 Iraq disarmament crisis
: The United States Senate
passes Resolution 71, urging U.S. President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq
's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
1998 Paula Jones accuses U.S. President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
1998 Lewinsky scandal
: On American television, President Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House
intern Monica Lewinsky
.
1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House
intern Monica Lewinsky
receives transactional immunity, in exchange for her grand jury
testimony concerning her relationship with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: U.S. President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House
intern Monica Lewinsky
. He also admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1998 Iraq disarmament crisis
: Scott Ritter resigns from UNSCOM, sharply criticizing the Clinton
administration and the U.N. Security Council for not being vigorous enough about insisting that Iraq
's weapons of mass destruction be destroyed. Ritter tells reporters that "Iraq
is not disarming," "Iraq
retains the capability to launch a chemical strike."
1998 Lewinsky scandal
: As part of the impeachment
inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 Lewinsky scandal
: The United State House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee begins impeachment
hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 Lewinsky scandal
: Bill Clinton is impeached
by the House of Representatives
.
1999 President
Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate
in his impeachment
trial.
1999 Monica Lewinsky
's book detailing her affair with Bill Clinton goes on sale in the United States
.
2000 President Clinton
arrives in New Delhi
for a state visit.
2000 Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam
.
2005 The United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Montreal
, Quebec
. The conference lasts until December 9, and features a speech by former President Bill Clinton that the George W. Bush
Administration objected to.
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