Bill Clinton: the most relevant data of his life and political career

(CNN) -- Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States. Here we share the most relevant data of his life and his political career.

Personal information

Date of birth: August 19, 1946

Place of birth: Hope, Arkansas.

Birth name: William Jefferson Blythe III

Father: William Blythe

Mother: Virginia (Kelley) Blythe

Marriage: Hillary (Rodham) Clinton (October 11, 1975-present)

Children: Chelsea Victoria, February 27, 1980

Education: Georgetown University, 1968; University of Oxford, Rhodes Scholar, 1968-1970; Yale University, Juris Doctor, 1973

Religion: Baptist

Other data

Bill and Hillary Clinton were married on October 11, 1975 (Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Clinton was born three months after his father, William Blythe, was killed in a car accident.

As a teenager, Clinton adopted the surname of his stepfather, Roger Clinton.

He was the first Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be elected to a second presidential term.

He was the second president of the United States to be impeached. The first was Andrew Johnson, in 1868.

He was nominated for four Grammy Awards and won twice.

Chronology

1972 - Manages the Texas campaign for Democratic presidential candidate George S. McGovern.

1974-he Runs unsuccessfully for the House seat of Arkansas's Third Congressional District.

1976-he is elected attorney general for the state of Arkansas.

1978-he is elected Governor of Arkansas, at age 32.

1980-he Loses the reelection of governor.

1982-he wins the elections for governor.

1984-He is re-elected as Governor of Arkansas. He was also re-elected in 1986 and 1990.

October 3, 1991- Announces his campaign for the US presidency.

June 3, 1992- Clinton plays saxophone on "The Arsenio Hall Show."

November 3, 1992-He is elected president, defeating George HW Bush and H. Ross Perot.

January 20, 1993 - He is sworn in as the 42nd president.

November 30, 1993 - Enacts the Small Arms Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act). The law requires background checks and a five-day waiting period for the purchase of firearms.

December 8, 1993 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law, taking effect on January 1, 1994.

May 6, 1994 - Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, files a federal civil lawsuit in Little Rock, Arkansas, accusing Clinton of making "persistent and continuous" sexual advances toward her during a business conference in May 1994. 1991, when Clinton was the governor of Arkansas.

August 1994 - Kenneth Starr is appointed special prosecutor to investigate a failed real estate company known as Whitewater.

September 13, 1994 - Clinton signs the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The bill increases funding for Police Departments and imposes harsher prison sentences for federal crimes.

November 5, 1996 - Clinton is re-elected for a second term.

February 25, 1997 - The White House releases documents from 1995 showing that Clinton had approved plans to reward Democratic Party donors with overnight stays in Lincoln's bedroom.

January 17, 1998 - During a video statement by Jones' attorneys, Clinton denies having a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

January 21, 1998 - The story about the Lewinsky accusations breaks the press. The accusations come to light after Starr learns of the audio tapes in which Lewinsky describes the alleged affair and cover-up from an informer, Linda Tripp.

January 26, 1998 - Clinton declares: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

February 2, 1998 - Clinton signs the first balanced budget since 1969.

August 6, 1998-Lewinsky testifies before the grand jury about her relationship with Clinton.

August 17, 1998 - Clinton testifies before the grand jury and admits to having "inappropriate intimate contact" with Lewinsky, but says they did not constitute sexual intercourse because there was no intercourse.

September 11, 1998 - The House of Representatives releases the Starr Report to the public.

October 8, 1998 - The House of Representatives votes, 258 to 176, to begin an impeachment inquiry against Clinton.

Nov. 13, 1998 - Clinton agrees to pay Jones $850,000 to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit.

December 11-12, 1998-The House Judiciary Committee passes four articles of impeachment against Clinton, charging him with lying under oath, obstructing justice, and abusing his presidential power in an effort to conceal a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.

December 16, 1998 - The United States and Britain launch four days of airstrikes against Iraq after months of trying and failing to get Saddam Hussein to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors.

December 19, 1998 - The House of Representatives in plenary approves two of the four articles (perjury and obstruction of justice). Clinton becomes the second president in US history to be impeached.

January 7, 1999 - Trial begins in the Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

February 12, 1999 - The trial in the Senate ends with an acquittal. The vote on the perjury charge is 55-45 and the obstruction of justice charge is split 50-50. A two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, was required for conviction.

September 20, 2000 - After six years, independent counsel Robert Ray closes the Whitewater investigation, clearing the Clintons of any wrongdoing.

January 15, 2001 - A cancerous lesion is removed from Clinton's back. Doctors say the cancer has not spread and do not consider it serious.

Jan. 19, 2001 - The day before he leaves office, Clinton agrees to relinquish his Arkansas attorney's license for five years and pay a $25,000 fine to the state bar, ending the Committee's efforts to Professional Conduct of the Arkansas Supreme Court to disqualify you.

Jan. 20, 2001 - Hours before leaving office, Clinton pardons 141 people, including Whitewater figure Susan McDougal and publishing heiress Patty Hearst. The most controversial pardon is that of financier Marc Rich, who had been a fugitive in Switzerland. The president also pardons his brother, Roger Clinton, who had been convicted of a cocaine possession charge in the 1980s.

July 30, 2001-His post-presidential office formally opens in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.

February 8, 2004 - Clinton wins a Grammy as one of several guest narrators on "Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf / Beintus: Wolf Tracks." The album wins the award for best spoken word album for children.

June 22, 2004 - Clinton's 957-page biography, "My Life," is published.

July 27, 2004 - Clinton is the keynote speaker on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, in Boston.

September 3, 2004 - Clinton is admitted to Northern Westchester Hospital after experiencing mild chest pain and shortness of breath. The doctors say that a bypass surgery is necessary.

September 6, 2004-He undergoes a four-hour bypass operation at New York Presbyterian Hospital. His doctors announce that some of his arteries were more than 90% blocked.

November 18, 2004 - The William J. Clinton Presidential Park and Center opens, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

January 3, 2005 - President George W. Bush appoints former Presidents George HW Bush and Clinton to lead fundraising efforts for humanitarian relief after a devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia.

February 1, 2005 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appoints Clinton as UN envoy for tsunami reconstruction.

February 13, 2005-He wins a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "My Life."

February 2005 - Clinton and George HW Bush travel to Asia to visit areas affected by the tsunami.

September 5, 2005 - George HW Bush and Clinton announce the formation of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, to help hurricane victims.

July 12, 2006 - Clinton and Bill Gates travel to Lesotho to visit an HIV/AIDS clinic supported by the William J. Clinton Foundation (later renamed the Clinton Foundation). It is the fifth time Clinton has visited Africa to promote AIDS awareness since 2001.

September 4, 2007 - Clinton's book, "Giving," is published. In it, he gives examples of how the generosity of ordinary people can positively impact the world.

August 27, 2008 – Clinton makes a speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention endorsing Barack Obama for the presidency.

May 19, 2009 - Clinton is appointed United Nations special envoy for Haiti.

August 4, 2009 - Clinton travels to North Korea, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, and secures the clemency and release of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.

February 3, 2010 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon places Clinton in charge of overseeing relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti following the magnitude 7 earthquake in January.

February 11, 2010-He is rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital with "chest discomfort" and undergoes a procedure to place two stents in one of his arteries.

November 8, 2011 - Clinton's book on reviving the economy, "Back to Work," is published.

November 20, 2013 - Obama awards him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

July 26, 2016 - Speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia after Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee and the first woman in US history to lead a major political party's presidential ticket .

June 4, 2018 - "The President is Missing," a novel co-written by Clinton and James Patterson, is published. During an interview with NBC to publicize the book, Clinton is asked if he owes Lewinsky a personal apology. He replies, "No, I don't owe her, I've never spoken to her. But I've said publicly on more than one occasion that I'm sorry. That's very different. The apology was public."

June 5, 2018-Clinton regrets his comments during the NBC interview. He says: "The important thing is that it was a painful thing that happened 20 years ago and I apologized to my family, to Monica Lewinsky and her family, to the American people. I meant it then; I mean it now. I've had to live with the consequences every day since."

March 6, 2020-In "Hillary," a new documentary tracking the life and career of the former first lady, Clinton says he feels "terrible" that the affair has "unfairly" defined Lewinsky's life.