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Dwight David Eisenhower is born in Denison on October 14, 1890.
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from Abilene High School
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enlists in the Millitary
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Married Mamie Geneva Doud
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He won by a landslide of 33 million votes to opponent Adlai Stevenson%u2019s 27 million.
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Eisenhower departs for Korea to review the military situation.
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Eisenhower announces that the Seventh Fleet patrolling the Formosa Strait will no longer shield Communist China from military action by Nationalist China.
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Eisenhower removes government controls on wages and salaries.
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The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is created. Eisenhower names Oveta Culp Hobby as the first secretary of the newly created department. Hobby is only the second woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.
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President Eisenhower delivers %u201CThe Chance for Peace%u201D speech before American Society of Newspaper Editors.
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President Eisenhower signs the Submerged Lands Act giving states the natural resources, ownership and sovereignty over %u201Clands beneath navigable waters within the boundaries of the respective states.%u201D
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President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack in Denver.
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Eisenhower appoints William J. Brennan to the Supreme Court.
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President Eisenhower signs the National Defense Education Act, which provides loans for college students majoring in math, science and foreign languages.
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He died from a coronary heart disease. He was 78 years old.