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Jimmy Carter
Full Name: Jimmy Carter
Born: October 1, 1924
in GA
Presidential Term: 39 (January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981)
Historical Sites Related to Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, Plains, GA 31780
Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, GA 30307
Major Events During Presidency
- 03/26/1979: President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland negotiated the Camp David Accords with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The historic peace agreement ended three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel.
- 03/21/1980: President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
Major Events Before or After Presidency
- 03/30/1981: In the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded four people, including then-current President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley had a history of mental illness, including an obsession with Jody Foster, and stalking of former President Jimmy Carter.
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Did you know?
The Emancipation Proclamation, enacted by President Lincoln, only freed slaves in territories not under Union control. The slave-owning territories that still belonged to the Union were not required to free their slaves. This was in order to not lose the support of those territories still part of the Union.
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On September 9, 1850... California was added to the Union
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