- Abraham Lincoln: 1864 - The Battle of Gettysburg
- Andrew Jackson: 1830 - Indian Removal Act
- Andrew Johnson: 1868 - First President to be Impeached
- Benjamin Harrison: 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act
- Calvin Coolidge: 1928 - Kellog-Briand Pact
- Chester A Arthur: 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act
- Dwight D Eisenhower: 1957 - Sent US Army to integrate Little Rock Central High School
- Franklin D Roosevlet: 1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Franklin Pierce: 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act
- George Washington: 1793 - Proclamation of Neutrality
- Gerald Ford: 1975 - the Fall of Saigon
- Grover Cleveland: 1894 - Pullman Strike
- Harry S Truman: 1945 - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- Herbert Hoover: 1929 - Black Tuesday
- James Buchanan: 1857 - The Dred Scot Decision
- James Garfield: 1881 - Assassinated
- James K Polk: 1846 - War with Mexico
- James Madison: War of 1812
- James Monroe: 1823 - Americas should be free from future European colonization
- Jimmy Carter: 1979 - Iranian Hostage Crisis
- John Adams: 1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts
- John F Kennedy: 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
- John Quincy Adams: 1828 - The Tariff of Abominations
- John Tyler: 1841 - First Vice-President to become president
- Lyndon B Johnson: 1964 - Civil Rights Act
- Martin Van Buren: Panic of 1837
- Millard Fillmore: 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act
- Richard M Nixon: 1972 - Watergate
- Ronald Reagan: 1986 - Iran-Contra Affair
- Rutherford B Hayes: Compromise of 1877 - The End of Reconstruction
- Theodore Roosevelt: 1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act
- Thomas Jefferson: 1803 - Louisiana Purchase
- Ulysses S Grant: 1875 - Whiskey Ring Scandal
- Warren G Harding: 1923 - Teapot Dome Scandal
- William Henry Harrison: "Tippecanoe" - Died April 4, 1841 (31 days after taking office)
- William Howard Taft: 1909 - "Dollar Diplomacy"
- William McKinley: 1898 - Spanish-American War
- Woodrow Wilson: 1917 - the "Fourteen Points"
- Zachary Taylor: Compromise of 1850