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Ronald Wilson Reagan is born in Tampico, Ill., to Nelle Wilson Reagan and John Edward Reagan. The Reagans already had one previous son, Neil.
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Reagan receives a temporary sports broadcasting job with WOC, a small radio station in Davenport, Iowa. After WOC consolidates with WHO in Des Moines, "Dutch" recreates Chicago Cubs baseball games from the studio. WHO, an NBC affiliate, gives Reagan national media exposure.
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Reagan announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president.
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Reagan is elected president in a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter.
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In a speech to the British House of Commons, Reagan predicts "the march of freedom and democracy...will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history
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Reagan unveils his proposal for a Strategic Defense Initiative
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Reagan gives an emotional speech in Normandy, France, commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
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Reagan defeats Mondale in landslide. Reagan carries 49 states -- 525 electoral votes to Mondale's 10, and 59% of the popular vote.
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Reagan, 73, begins a second term, making him the oldest president ever to be sworn in.
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Reagan gives his farewell address to the nation, in which he says the so-called Reagan revolution "made a difference."
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Ronald Reagan dies in California at the age of 93.
