Biography:Governor of Arkansas he became the first two-term Democratic President since FDR serving 1993-2001. Oversaw a period of strong economic prosperity in the US, and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
His second term was marred by a scandal involving intern Monica Lewinsky for which he was impeached in 1998 but acquitted in 1999.
With his wife, Hillary Clinton he has continued to wield significant influence over American politics since his presidential term ended in 2000.
1975-10-11 Future US President Bill Clinton (29) weds future US Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham (28) in a Methodist ceremony in their living room in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Historical Events
1992-01-27 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1992-11-03 Democrat Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent President George H. W. Bush
1993-01-20 Bill Clinton (D) inaugurated as 42nd US President
1993-01-20Maya Angelou is 1st African American and woman to recite a poem at inauguration of a US President - "On the Pulse of Morning" for Bill Clinton
1993-02-11 President Clinton selects Janet Reno to be first female US Attorney General
1993-06-14Ruth Bader Ginsburg is introduced by President Bill Clinton as his nominee to the United States Supreme Court in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House
1993-06-27 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton
1993-07-19 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1993-11-30 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1994-02-03 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1994-05-08 President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1995-01-14 Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico
1995-01-31 US President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy
1995-04-23 President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
1995-11-29 US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973
1995-12-14 The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments ending the conflict in the former Yugoslavia including Slobodan Milošević, Alija Izetbegović, Franjo Tuđman and Bill Clinton
1996-04-30 US President Clinton approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years
1996-05-28 U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1996-08-06 US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya
1996-08-26 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in welfare policy
1996-09-24 US President Bill Clinton signs the "Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty" at the United Nations
1996-11-05 Bill Clinton is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Bob Dole
1997-03-04 US President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1997-03-14 US President Bill Clinton trips and injures his knee requiring surgery
1997-05-20 US President Clinton signs an executive order barring new US investment in Burma (also known as Myanmar), effective May 21 and renewable annually
1997-12-16 US President Bill Clinton names his Labrador retriever "Buddy"
1998-01-07 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton
1998-01-17 US President Bill Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones
1998-01-26 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
1998-05-22Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton
1998-05-26 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton
1998-08-17 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship
1998-09-11 Independent counsel Ken Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998-10-08 US House of Representatives votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
1998-10-27 The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton
1998-11-16Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton
1998-12-19 US House of Representatives votes to impeach President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal, forwarding the articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial
1999-01-07 President Bill Clinton's Impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
1999-02-12 US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial
1999-04-12 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2000-04-15 Giant Sequoia National Monument proclamation signed by President Bill Clinton in California, preserving one-third of all giant sequoia groves, the world's largest tree
2000-05-02 President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military
2000-06-21 US Senator Daniel K. Inouye and 19 other Japanese-American WWII veterans of the 442nd Regiment belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton
2000-11-16 Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War
2001-01-20 US President Bill Clinton issues 140 executive pardons on his last day in office; recipients include Marc Rich, Susan McDougall, Patty Hearst, and his brother Roger
2009-08-04Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.
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