Gerald Ford died on 26 December 2006 in Thunderbird Country Club, aged 93. The 38th President of the United States, Ford served for decades as a Republican congressman from Michigan and became House minority leader. In 1973 he was appointed vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned, and in August 1974 he took the presidency when Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate. He is the only person to have held both offices without being elected to either. His decision to pardon Nixon a month later was controversial and probably hurt his standing with voters. His term dealt with inflation, the end of the Vietnam War and the Helsinki Accords, and he narrowly lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter.
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- 11 December 2006Mexican drug war
- 13 December 2006Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- from 20 December 2006 to 30 January 2009War in Somalia
- 21 December 2006Founding of University of Pula
- 26 December 2006Death of Gerald Ford
- 30 December 2006Death of Saddam Hussein
- c. 2007Great Recession
- 2007First light of Gran Telescopio Canarias
- 2007Construction of Sheikh Zayed Mosque
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