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My Celebrity Relations
REAGAN, Ronald Wilson [1911-2004] -- American actor and politician, 40° POTUS
Relationship to me: 1S2
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The Great Communicator
United States, POTUS 40
President Ronald Reagan died 5 Jun 2004, æ 93y,
on the day before the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
He will be remembered chiefly as the architect of the collapse
of the Soviet Union and the end of fifty years of so-called Cold War,
which he accomplished without firing a shot.
Ronald Reagan believed the United States would not win the Cold War as long
as Moscow believed it would win.
He pushed the Soviets to help them understand that, for them,
the Cold War was not a winning proposition
and that they were wrong to think that they could fight forever and
that their adversaries could not.
…Reagan assumed [his] nation's highest position of trust late in [life, and]
finally saw his view vindicated.
[Morton B. Zuckerman, U.S.News & World Report, 130:13 (April 2, 2001), p.63]
In 1994, his mostly-estranged daughter, Patti Davis, ?
who had written a spiteful book about her famous parents,
posed nude for a Playboy centerfold and video. 
1947-1952 | President of Screen Actors Guild |
1959-1960 | President of Screen Actors Guild |
1966-1974 | Governor of California |
1981 | Oldest man elected POTUS |
1981-1989 | Term as POTUS |
1981/01 | He is selected as Time Magazine "Person of the Year" for 1980 |
1981/03/30 | Shot, wounded in assassination attempt (Hinckley) |
1981/04/12 | First reusable spacecraft launched, space shuttle Columbia |
1981/07/29 | Major tax-cuts passed |
1981/08/05 | Recalcitrant striking air traffic controllers fired |
1981/09/21 | First woman appointed to U.S. Supreme court, Sandra Day O'Connor |
1982/12 | U.S. unemployment hits 10.8% |
1982/12/02 | First permanent artificial heart |
1983 | French scientists discover virus related to AIDS |
1983/06/18 | First U.S. woman in space, Sally Ride aboard shuttle Challenger |
1983/09/01 | Soviets shoot down straying S. Korean passenger jet |
1983/10 | War in Granada deposes Marxist regime |
1983/10/23 | Suicide bombing in Beirut Int'l Airport |
1984/11/06 | Reagan re-elected in greatest Republican landslide |
1985/06/14 | TWA jet hijacked after takeoff from Athens airport, 153 held hostage for 17 days; 1 U.S. serviceman killed |
1985/07/15 | "Live Aid" rock concert benefits starving peoples of Africa |
1985/10/07 | Palestinian terrorists hijack Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro; one American killed. |
1986 | Major tax-reform bill passed |
1986/01/20 | First official observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day |
1986/01/28 | Shuttle Challenger explodes on liftoff. |
1986/11 | Iran-Contra scandal |
1987/01/05 | First U.S. trillion-dollar budget |
1987/01/08 | First DOW-Jones stock closing over $2000 |
1987/10/19 | Largest Wall St. loss in crash of 508 points |
1988/07/03 | U.S. warship Vincennes shoots down Iranian passenger airliner, 290 killed |
1994 | Reagan discloses that he is afflicted with the degenerative brain disease, Alzheimer's |
2001 | Most long-lived POTUS at 90y |
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Bookmarks :2004-06-06 16:32:10 - Spouse: ¤REAGAN, Nancy Davis [*1923-?] American actress, former First Lady
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