George H.W. Bush Events

1924 Jun 12 George H.W. Bush is Born
George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924. The Bush family moved from Milton to Greenwich, Connecticut shortly after his birth. Bu...
1942 Jun 12 George H.W. Bush Enlists in the U.S. Navy Reserve
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of...
1942 Jun 12 George H.W. Bush Graduates from Phillips Academy
Bush began his formal education at the Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich. Beginning in 1936, he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he held a large number o...
1944 Sep 2 George H.W. Bush is Shot Down in the Pacific Ocean
He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT-51) as the photographic officer in September 1943. The following year, his squadron was based on the USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, w...
1945 Jan 6 George Herbert Walker Bush Marries Barbara Pierce
On January 6, 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush, on leave from active duty in World War II, married former Smith College student Barbara Pierce. The bride was twenty years old—the groom he...
1945 Sep 18 George H.W. Bush is Honorably Discharged from the US Navy
Bush subsequently returned to San Jacinto in November 1944 and participated in operations in the Philippines until his squadron was replaced and sent home to the United States. Through 19...
1945 Nov 1 George H.W. Bush Attends Yale University
Bush had been accepted to Yale University prior to his enlistment in the military, and took up the offer after his discharge and marriage. While at Yale, he was enrolled in an accelerated...
1948 George H.W. and Barbara Bush Move to Texas Where George Begins at an Oil Company
George and Barbara Bush moved their young son cross-country to Texas in 1948, where the senior Bush began his career in the oil business as a $375-a-month oil drilling equipment clerk.
1963 Feb 20 George H.W. Bush Elected Chairman of the Harris County Republican Committee
Bush served as Chairman of the Republican Party for Harris County, Texas in 1964, but wanted to be more involved in policy making, so he set his stakes high: he aimed for a US Senate seat...
1966 Nov 8 George H.W. Bush Elected to U.S. House of Representatives
Bush served as Chairman of the Republican Party for Harris County, Texas in 1964, but wanted to be more involved in policy making, so he set his stakes high: he aimed for a US Senate seat...
1973 Jan 18 George H.W. Bush Serves as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee
Amidst the Watergate scandal, Nixon asked Bush to become chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973. Bush accepted, and held this position when the popularity of both Nixon and...
1974 Sep 4 President Ford Appoints George H.W. Bush to the US Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China (PRC)
Gerald Ford, Nixon's successor, appointed Bush to be Chief of the US Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China. Since the United States at the time maintained official relations wi...
1976 Jan 30
to 1977 Jan 20
 George H.W. Bush Serves as the Director of Central Intelligence
In 1976, Ford brought Bush back to Washington to become Director of Central Intelligence. He served in this role for 357 days, from January 30, 1976 to January 20, 1977. The CIA had been ...
1979 May 1 George H.W. Bush Announces his Candidacy for President of the United States
Bush had decided in the late 1970s that he was going to run for president in 1980; in 1979, he attended 850 political events and traveled more than 250,000 miles (400,000 km) to campaign ...
1980 May 26 George H.W. Bush Officially Pulls Out of Presidential Race
In the primary election, Bush focused almost entirely on the Iowa caucuses, while Reagan ran a more traditional campaign. Bush represented the centrist wing in the GOP, whereas Reagan rep...
1980 Jul 16 George H. W. Bush is Nominated as Vice Presidential Candidate by Reagan
Bush ended up losing New Hampshire's primary with 23 percent to Reagan's 50 percent. Bush lost most of the remaining primaries as well, and formally dropped out of the race in May of that...
1981 Jan 20
to 1989 Jan 20
 George H.W. Bush Serves as US Vice President
As Vice President, Bush generally took on a low-profile while recognizing the constitutional limits of the office; he avoided decision-making or criticizing Reagan in any way. As had beco...
1981 Jan 20 Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th president of the United States
For the first time, an inauguration ceremony was held on the terrace of the West Front of the Capitol. Chief Justice Warren Burger administered the oath of office to the former broadcaste...
1989 Jan 20 George H.W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States
The 200th anniversary of the Presidency was observed as George Bush took the executive oath on the same Bible George Washington used in 1789. The ceremony occurred on a platform on the t...
1989 Dec DoDEA Schools live through "Operation Just Cause"
What it was like to live through Operation Just Cause My wife and two children all lived through the events leading up to and including the Invasion of Panama by the United States as i...
1989 Dec Operation Just Cause
The United States invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989, during the George H.W. Bush administration, and ten...
1990 Jul 26 President George Bush Signs into Law The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is a law that was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990. Its long title is "An Act to establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of d...
1991 Feb 28 George H.W. Bush Declares Kuwait Liberated
Exactly 100 hours after to ground campaign began, Iraq retreated from Kuwait City, and US President George H.W. Bush declared an end to offensive combat operations in the Gulf.
1991 Oct 30
to 1991 Nov 1
 Madrid Conference
The Madrid Conference was hosted by the government of Spain and co-sponsored by the USA and the USSR. It convened on October 30, 1991 and lasted for three days. It was an early attempt by...