Interesting Presidential Facts

First president to throw out the ball on Major League Baseball's Opening Day: William Howard Taft, on April 14, 1910.

Most first pitches thrown by a president: Eight, by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Presidents to win the Nobel Peace Prize while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919)

Only ex-president to win the Nobel Peace Prize: Jimmy Carter (2002)

Only president to win a Pulitzer Prize: John F. Kennedy, 1960, for his book Profiles in Courage

First president to live in the White House: John Adams

First president to leave the U.S. while in office: Theodore Roosevelt, who visited the Panama Canal in 1906

First president to fly in an airplane while in office: Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1944; his plane was called "the Sacred Cow"

First president to speak from the White House on TV: Harry Truman, in 1947.

World Almanac for Kids, 2004