George Washington
(February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)

On February 22, 1732, George Washington was
born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the first
of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball
Washington. (Augustine had three additional
children from his first marriage.) An initially
loyal British subject, Washington eventually
led the Continental Army in the American
Revolution and became the new nation’s first
president. He is often referred to as the father
of the United States.

President Richard Nixon and Premier Zhou Enlai shake
hands in Beijing.

In an amazing turn of events, President Richard Nixon took a
dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the
communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) by traveling
to Beijing for a week of talks. Nixon’s historic visit began
the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations
between the United States and communist China.

Most government offices and public schools will be closed
and it is a postal holiday, so there will be no mail deliveries
on President’s Day.

(FOXNEWS) – The federal government enacted nationwide
Daylight Saving Time amid the darkest depths of wartime
fears on this day in history, Feb. 9, 1942.

"Passed by Congress and signed into law by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the year-round daylight saving time
required that clocks be moved ahead one hour for the
remainder of the war as a national defense measure to
conserve energy," notes Fishwrap, a blog of historic
newspaper headlines.

The federal action went into effect just two months after
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United
States into World War II. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

America’s 40th President Ronald Wilson Reagan was born
in Tampico, Illinois, on this day in history, Feb. 6, 1911.

Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and was the president of the
Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 until
1960.