May 20, 1980 -- George Bush wins the Michigan GOP presidential primary, defeating Ronald Reagan by a 2-1 margin.
Do You Know? What did Bush do six days later? (Answer: He ended his campaign)

May 19, 1992 -- President George Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton win their respective primaries in Washington state.
Do You Know? Who received 19 percent of the vote in each primary as a write-in candidate? (Answer: Ross Perot)

May 18, 1976 -- California Gov. Jerry Brown wins the Democratic presidential primary in Maryland.
Do You Know? How many primaries did Brown win that year? (Answer: Three -- he also won in California and Nevada)

May 17, 1976 -- Rep. Bella Abzug announces her candidacy for the Democratic Senate nomination from New York, where she'll hope to take on Republican incumbent James Buckley.
Do You Know? Who defeated Abzug in the Democratic primary? (Answer: Daniel Patrick Moynihan)

May 16, 1972 -- George Wallace, critically wounded in an assassination attempt the day before, wins the Michigan and Maryland Democratic presidential primaries.
Do You Know? Who finished second in each? (Answer: Hubert Humphrey in Maryland; George McGovern in Michigan)

May 15, 1972 -- Alabama Gov. George Wallace, seeking the Democratic nomination for president, is shot at a rally in Laurel, Maryland.
Do You Know? What was the name of the would-be assassin? (Answer: Arthur Bremer)

May 14, 1968 -- Rep. Arch Moore Jr. wins the Republican primary for governor of West Virginia, defeating former Gov. Cecil Underwood, who served from 1957-60.
Do You Know? What is Underwood doing now? (Answer: Underwood, 77, is once again governor and is seeking re-election this year)

May 13, 1960 -- Former President Truman endorses his home-state senator, Missouri's Stuart Symington, for the Democratic nomination for president.
Do You Know? Who was the last Missourian to run for president? (Answer: Richard Gephardt, in 1988)

May 12, 1970 -- Harry Blackmun is confirmed by the Senate as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Do You Know? How many senators voted against Blackmun? (Answer: None -- the vote was 96-0)

May 11, 1988 -- Pat Robertson ends his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and endorses Vice President George Bush.
Do You Know? How did Robertson do in the Iowa caucuses? (Answer: He finished second to Bob Dole and ahead of Bush, who would go on to become president)

May 10, 1960 -- Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, defeats Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minnesota, in the crucial West Virginia primary. Humphrey withdraws from the race the next day.
Do You Know? Why was West Virginia seen as crucial? (Answer: An overwhelmingly Protestant state, it was seen as a test of how the Catholic Kennedy would fare with non-Catholic voters)

May 9, 1974 -- House Republican Leader John Rhodes says that President Richard Nixon should consider resigning over his involvement in Watergate.
Do You Know? Who succeeded Rhodes as minority leader? (Answer: Bob Michel of Illinois)

May 8, 1987 -- Former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, beseiged for days by the media about an alleged extra-marital relationship, ends his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Do You Know? What was the name of the Washington Post reporter who asked Hart at a news conference if he had ever committed adultery? (Answer: Paul Taylor)

May 7, 1968 -- Alabama Gov. Lurleen Wallace dies of cancer.
Do You Know? Why did she run for governor in 1966? (Answer: Gov. George Wallace, her husband, was barred by state law from running for re-election)

May 6, 1980 -- Rep. Dan Quayle of Indiana wins his state's GOP Senate primary.
Do You Know? Who does Quayle defeat in November? (Answer: Sen. Birch Bayh)

May 5, 1964 -- Indiana Gov. Matthew Welsh, a stand-in for President Lyndon Johnson, wins the Democratic presidential primary in Indiana. But his opponent gets 30 percent of the vote.
Do You Know? Who was that opponent? (Answer: Alabama Gov. George Wallace)

May 4, 1963 -- New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (R) marries Margaretta Fitler Murphy a year after his divorce, a move that damages his presidential plans for 1964.
Do You Know? Name the last president who went through a divorce? (Answer: Ronald Reagan)

May 3, 1987 -- The Miami Herald reveals that Gary Hart, the Democratic frontrunner for president in 1988, spent the weekend in his Washington town house with another woman.
Do You Know? Who was that woman? (Answer: Donna Rice)

May 2, 1957 -- Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican who used questionable tactics to root out Communists in the U.S. government, dies of acute hepatitis.
Do You Know? Who succeeded him in the Senate? (Answer: William Proxmire, a Democrat, who won a special election)

April 30, 1956 -- Sen. Alben Barkley, D-Kentucky, a former vice president, dies at the age of 78.
Do You Know? Under whom was Barkley V.P.? (Answer: Harry Truman)

April 29, 1980 -- President Jimmy Carter nominates Maine Sen. Ed Muskie (D) as secretary of state.
Do You Know? What event necessitated the nomination? (Answer: Cyrus Vance quit following the abortive raid to free the American hostages in Iran)

April 28, 1992 -- Lynn Yeakel wins the Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania, where she'll take on Republican Sen. Arlen Specter in the fall.
Do You Know? What prompted Yeakel into the race? (Specter's treatment of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings)

April 27, 1968 -- Vice President Hubert Humphrey enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Do You Know? En route to winning the nomination, how many primaries does HHH win? (Answer: None. He joined the race after all the filing deadlines had passed.)

April 26, 1956 -- Vice President Richard Nixon says he will seek re-election.
Do You Know? What prominent Republican led the effort to dump Nixon from the GOP ticket? (Answer: Former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen)

April 25, 1988 -- A Time magazine poll shows Michael Dukakis, the Democratic front-runner, leading Vice President George Bush in a prospective matchup 50-39 percent.
Do You Know? How many states did Dukakis carry in the fall that year? (Answer: Ten)

April 24, 1980 -- Republican presidential candidate John Anderson, an Illinois congressman, announces he will run as an independent.
Do You Know? Who was his running mate? (Answer: Former Wisconsin Gov. Patrick Lucey, a Democrat)

April 23, 1985 -- Former Sen. Sam Ervin, a North Carolina Democrat, dies at the age of 88. Ervin chaired the Senate Watergate Committee in 1974.
Do You Know? Who was the Republican vice chair? (Answer: Howard Baker of Tennessee)

April 22, 1980 -- George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy win their respective party's presidential primaries in Pennsylvania.
Do You Know? Who were the nominees that year? (Answer: Ronald Reagan for the Republicans, President Jimmy Carter for the Democrats)

April 21, 1960 -- In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, says the press should avoid "magnifying" or "oversimplifying" his Roman Catholic religion.
Do You Know? Until JFK, who had been the last Catholic presidential candidate? (Answer: Al Smith, in 1928)

April 20, 1910 -- Robert F. Wagner Jr., a three-term Democratic mayor of New York City and son of a U.S. senator, is born.
Do You Know? Who succeeded Wagner as mayor of NYC? (Answer: John Lindsay, a Republican, elected in 1965)

April 19, 1995 -- Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, announces his candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
Do You Know? Why does Lugar have trouble attracting news coverage for his announcement? (Answer: It came a few hours after the bombing in Oklahoma City)

April 18, 1983 -- Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination.
Do You Know? Who had been the last South Carolina Democrat to run for president? (Answer: In 1948, Gov. Strom Thurmond ran as a States Rights Democrat)

April 17, 1980 -- Rep. Phil Crane, R-Illinois, the first candidate to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, withdraws from the race and endorses Ronald Reagan.
Do You Know? Where does Crane currently stand among Republicans in seniority in the House? (Answer: Elected in 1969, Crane is the most senior House Republican)

April 14, 1970 -- President Richard Nixon nominates Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court.
Do You Know? What was the name of the Nixon court nominee whose defeat in the Senate necessitated the choice of Blackmun? (Answer: G. Harrold Carswell)

April 13, 1743 -- Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, is born.
Do You Know? Aside from succeeding John Adams, what else did Jefferson have in common with the nation's second president? (Answer: They both died on the same day -- July 4, 1826)

April 12, 1945 -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 63, dies in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Can you name all of FDR's vice presidents? (Answer: John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace and Harry Truman)

April 11, 1974 -- The House Judiciary Committee votes 33-3 to subpoena President Richard Nixon over recordings of Oval Office conversations.
Do You Know? Who was the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee? (Answer: Rep. Peter Rodino, D-New Jersey)

April 10, 1983 -- Rep. Phil Burton, D-California, one of the most powerful members of Congress, dies unexpectedly at the age of 56.
Do You Know? Who succeeded Burton in Congress? (Answer: His widow, Sala Burton)

April 7, 1970 -- Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, says that under no circumstances would he seek the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
Do You Know? What event is thought to have led to that decision? (Answer: The 1969 drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne in a car driven by Kennedy at Chappaquiddick)

April 6, 1976 -- On this day of two presidential primaries, Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, D-Washington, wins New York while former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter wins in Wisconsin.
Do You Know? Who finished second in both primaries? (Answer: Rep. Mo Udall, D-Arizona)

April 5, 1964 -- General Douglas MacArthur, leader of the Pacific fleet during World War II and a one-time Republican presidential hopeful, dies at the age of 84.
Do You Know? MacArthur was relieved of his command by what president during what war? (Answer: President Truman during the Korean War in 1951)

April 4, 1988 -- Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham (R) is ousted by the state Senate following his conviction on obstruction of justice charges.
Do You Know? Who succeded him as governor? (Answer: Arizona Secretary of State Rose Mofford, who became the state's first female governor)

March 31, 1968 -- President Lyndon Johnson stuns the country by announcing on nationwide television that he will not seek or accept his party's nomination for another term.
Do You Know? Who had been the last president to opt out of seeking re-election? (Answer: Harry Truman, in 1952)

March 30, 1976 -- Howard "Bo" Callaway, the national campaign director for President Gerald Ford, resigns under an ethical cloud.
Do You Know? Who succeeded Callaway? (Answer: Rogers Morton, the former Maryland congressman and ex-RNC chair)

March 29, 1994 -- Rep. William Natcher, D-Kentucky, the former chair of the House Appropriations Committee, dies of heart failure at the age of 84.
Do You Know? What feat is Natcher best known for? (Answer: He set the record for most consecutive votes in the House -- 18,401)

March 28, 1988 -- Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, withdraws from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Do You Know? Who was the other House member who was running for president that year? (Answer: Rep. Jack Kemp, R-New York)

March 27, 1984 -- The Democratic National Committee opens its platform committee meeting to work on policy differences among its presidential candidates.
Do You Know? Who was the chair of the plafform committee? (Answer: Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-New York, who went on to be named Walter Mondale's running mate that year)

March 24, 1988 -- Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter plead not guilty for their role in the Iran-Contra affair.
Do You Know? Who defeated North in his 1994 bid for the Senate? (Answer: Sen. Charles Robb, D-Virginia)

March 23, 1976 -- Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan defeats President Gerald Ford in the North Carolina GOP primary.
Do You Know? Who was the last previous challenger to beat an incumbent president in a primary? (Answer: Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tennessee, who defeated President Harry Truman in New Hampshire in 1952.)

March 22, 1972 -- The Senate votes 84-8 to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
Do You Know? Who were the Senate floor leaders during the debate? (Answer: For -- Birch Bayh, D-Indiana; Against -- Sam Ervin, D-North Carolina)

March 21, 1968 -- New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller says he will not seek the Republican presidential nomination that year.
Do You Know? What event led Rockefeller to change his mind a month later? (Answer: The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.)

March 20, 1968 -- Former California state Comptroller Alan Cranston announces he will run for the Senate, a seat he ultimately wins.
Do You Know? In his 1964 bid for the Senate, who defeated Cranston in the Democratic primary? (Answer: Pierre Salinger)

March 17, 1992 -- Sen. Alan Dixon, D-Illinois, loses his bid for renomination in the Democratic primary.
Do You Know? Who beat him? (Carol Moseley Braun, who would become the first African-American woman elected to the Senate)

March 16, 1968 -- Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-New York, jumps into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, just four days after President Lyndon Johnson was humbled by Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary.
Do You Know? What was the only primary Kennedy would lose that year? (Answer: Oregon, to McCarthy)

March 15, 1988 -- Sen. Paul Simon, D-Illinois, won his home state's presidential primary.
Do You Know? Whom did Simon defeat to win his Senate seat? (Answer: Charles Percy in 1984)

March 14, 1962 -- Edward Kennedy, the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy, announces he will seek the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat once held by JFK.
Do You Know? What was the name of the caretaker who kept the seat warm for Teddy? (Answer: Benjamin Smith III)

March 13, 1956 -- Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tennessee, as he did in 1952, won the New Hampshire presidential primary.
Do You Know? Who won the Democratic presidential nomination that year? (Answer: Adlai Stevenson, as he did in 1952)

March 12, 1968 -- Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minnesota, running as a Vietnam peace candidate, won a shocking 42 percent in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
Do You Know? Who on the ballot received more Democratic votes than McCarthy? (Answer: A trick question. The answer is no one. President Lyndon Johnson won the primary on a write-in effort, so his name wasn't on the ballot.)

March 11, 1988 -- Former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart ends his bid for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination for the second time.
Do You Know? How many delegates did Hart win in his attempt at a comeback? (Answer: None)

March 10, 1964 -- Henry Cabot Lodge wins a surprise write-in victory in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.
Do You Know? What was Lodge's title at the time? (Answer: U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam)

March 9, 1980 -- Former Texas Gov. John Connally ends his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, following a decisive defeat to Ronald Reagan in the South Carolina primary.
Do You Know? How many delegates did Connally win in his multi-million dollar bid? (Answer: One)

March 8, 1988 -- Vice President George Bush sweeps all 16 primaries on Super Tuesday, making him unstoppable in his bid for the GOP nomination.
Do You Know? Which Democrat won the most votes on this day? (Answer: Jesse Jackson)

March 7, 1972 -- Sen. George McGovern, D-South Dakota, gets 38 percent in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, finishing a surprisingly strong second and stunning his party's presidential front runner.
Do You Know? Who was the Democratic front runner? (Answer: Maine Sen. Ed Muskie)

March 6, 1996 -- Former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander withdraws from the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Do You Know? What Cabinet position did Alexander hold? (Answer: Secretary of Education under President Bush).

March 5, 1980 -- Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, R-Tennessee, withdraws from the presidential race.
Do You Know? How many primaries did Baker win? (Answer: none)

March 4, 1976 -- Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Montana, announces his retirement after 24 years in the Senate.
Do You Know? Whom did Mansfield succeed as majority leader, and who replaced him? (Answer: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Byrd)

March 3, 1992 -- Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton wins his first presidential primary, the Democratic contest in Georgia.
Do You Know? What Democrat dropped out of the race two days after his poor showing in Georgia? (Answer: Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey)

March 2, 1996 -- Bob Dole wins the South Carolina GOP primary, rebounding from his earlier loss in New Hampshire and re-establishing him as the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination.
Do You Know? Who beat Dole in New Hampshire? (Answer: Pat Buchanan)

February 28, 1968 -- Michigan Governor George Romney withdraws from the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Do You Know? What precipitated Romney's downfall? (Answer: Romney said he was "brainwashed" while on a Vietnam fact-finding tour)

February 27, 1991 -- The Senate Ethics Committee issues its report condemning the actions of the so-called Keating Five.
Do You Know? How many of the Keating Five were presidential candidates, and name them? (Answer: Three. Alan Cranston, 1984; John Glenn, 1984; and John McCain, 2000)

February 26, 1972 -- Erstwhile Democratic presidential front-runner Ed Muskie calls William Loeb, the editor/publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, a "gutless coward" for an attack editorial Muskie found objectionable.
Do You Know? Who was the target of the editorial? (Answer: Jane Muskie, the senator's wife)

February 25, 1982 -- Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Nebraska, wins the Democratic presidential primary in South Dakota. President George Bush, unopposed on the GOP side, nevertheless wins only 69 percent of the vote in his party's primary; the remainder went uncommitted.
Do You Know? What South Dakotan won his party's presidential nomination? (Answer: Democrat George McGovern, in 1972)

February 24, 1976 -- President Gerald Ford narrowly defeats former California Gov. Ronald Reagan in the New Hampshire Republican primary. On the Democratic side, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter parlays his "Jimmy Who" role to victory.
Do You Know? Whom did Ford and Carter select as their running mates that year? (Answer: Republican Bob Dole and Democrat Walter Mondale)

February 23, 1987 -- Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, announces his bid for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. He's the first major candidate to declare his candidacy.
Do You Know? Who was the last House member elected president? (Answer: James Garfield, an Ohio Republican, in 1880)

February 22, 1982 -- New York City Mayor Ed Koch announces his candidacy for governor of New York.
Do You Know? Who defeated Koch for the Democratic nomination in that year's primary? (Answer: Mario Cuomo)