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Richard Milhous Nixon, future President of the United States, is born to Francis A. Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. In this picture, he's second from the right.
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The Quaker family ranch of the Nixons fails, so the Nixons go to Whittier, California, to start a grocery store and gas station.
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One of Nixon's five brothers, Arthur, dies from illness when Nixon was very young.
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Nixon's brother Harold, after being ill with tuberculosis for a few years, dies.
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Nixon becomes engaged to a police chief's daughter, Ola Florence Welch.
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Nixon graduates from Whittier in the class of 1934, receiving a full scholarship to Duke University School of Law,
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Richard Nixon graduated third in his class at Duke University School of Law, applying for the FBI the moment he got out.
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Richard Nixon marries Thelma "Pat" Ryan in after two-year courtship and after they honeymooned in Mexico, they had to children, Tricia, who was born in 1946, and Julie, who was born in 1948.
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Nixon goes to Washington D.C., where he works for the Department of Price Administration.
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Nixon joins the Navy, even though he could have avoided the draft if he wanted to as a Quaker government employee.
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After nearly four years in the army, Lieutenant Commander Nixon resigned from his post.
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Nixon gives his Checkers speech to 60 million Americans on television and saves his position as Eisenhower's running mate.
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Nixon becomes vice president to President Eisenhower on Election Day.
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Nixon decides to run for president with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. against J.F.K. and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Nixon is defeated in a bid for California governor.
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Nixon becomes the President of the United States with Spiro Agnew.
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President-elect Nixon is sworn into office by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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For the first time in human history, astronauts walked on the moon, with the president talking to them at the same time.
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Chairman Mao of China invites a team of American table tennis players to China to compete against the top Chinese players.
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Nixon visits China with his wife on the request of Chairman Mao.
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Nixon and the first lady go to Moscow to meet with Soviet leaders like Brezhnev.
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After 5 men from Nixon's CREEP break into the Democratic party headquarters of Watergate, they were caught. This picture shows the 5 burglars.
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Nixon is reelected as president, only to leave in about 2 years later.
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American troops withdraw from Vietnam, with North Vietnam soldiers on the attack after a temporary truce.
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In light of Spiro Agnew's resignation, Nixon is forced to replace him with Gerald Ford, who would later become President of the United States.
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Impeachment hearings were televised across the nation as citizens held their breath for Nixon.
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Nixon resigns from office to escape impeachment.
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Nixon, struck with grief, wrote an extremely moving speech at his wife's funeral ceremony at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace.
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Nixon suffered a stroke, going into a coma after a blood clot from his heart broke off to go to his brain.
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Richard Milhous Nixon, former President of the United States, dies at the age of 81.
