President Gerald Ford Timeline
 

Gerald Ford Timeline

Gerald Ford Timeline
Short Biography of President Gerald Ford
Lifespan: 1913 - 2006
Born on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska
Gerald Ford died on December 26, 2006 (aged 93) in Rancho Mirage, California
Thirty-eighth President of America - His term in office was from 1974 to 1977
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Why was Gerald Ford famous?
Gerald Ford was famous as the thirty-eighth President of the United States of America. He was the only President neither elected to the Presidency nor the Vice Presidency. President Ford granted the disgraced Nixon an unconditional pardon which was extremely unpopular with the voters and probably cost him re-election. The next president was Ronald Reagan.

  1913Gerald Ford was born on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska 
     
  1935Gerald Ford attended University of Michigan (1935) 
     
  1939Germany invades Poland; World War II begins. Gerald Ford was in the military during WWII 
     
  1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
U.S. enters World War II
 
     
  1941Gerald Ford attended Yale University Law School (1941)   
     
  1945Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Germany and Japan surrender, ending World War II
 
     
  1946The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union 
     
  1948Gerald Ford was married to Elizabeth Bloomer Ford (Betty) on October 15, 1948. They had 4 children 
     
  1949Gerald Ford became a Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1949-73 
     
  1949NATO formed 
     
  1950Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power and start Communist witch hunts (1950-1954)
Korean War begins
 
     
  1953Armistice in Korea 
     
  1954SEATO alliance 
     
  1955Warsaw Pact 
     
  1956US installs Diem as leader of South Vietnam 
     
  1957Civil Rights Act of 1957
Russians launch Sputnik
 
     
  1958NASA formed  
     
  1959Cuban Revolution 
     
  1960Greensboro sit-in
Civil Rights Act of 1960
 
     
  1961Peace Corps
Vietnam War officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in Saigon
OPEC formed
 
     
  1962Cuban Missile Crisis 
     
  1963President J Kennedy assassinated
March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream" speech
 
     
  1964Civil Rights Act of 1964  
     
  1968Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
Civil Rights Act of 1968
 
     
  1969Vietnam 
     
  19691969 Richard Nixon became the President of the United States of America
1969 - Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
 
     
  1974Gerald Ford became Vice President, 1973-74 (under Nixon) 
     
  1974Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate
1974 Gerald Ford became the President of the United States of America
1974 - Ford granted disgraced Nixon an unconditional pardon
1974 - Campaign Reform Law
 
     
  1975-19761975-1976 - Communist victory in Southeast Asia
1975 - Helsinki Agreement
 
     
  1977The Presidency of Gerald Ford ended 
     
  1979Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins
 
     
  1981Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley 
     
  1986Iran-Contra scandal breaks
Space Shuttle Challenger accident
 
     
  2006Gerald Ford died of heart disease on December 26, 2006 in Rancho Mirage, California. Gerald and Betty Ford are buried together in Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
     
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