On this day in 1981 Ronaldus Magnus became the 40th POTUS. Twenty minutes after President Reagan is inaugurated Iran releases the 52 American hostages who they had been holding for 444 days-since November of 1979. The Ayatollah Khomeini wasn’t stupid. He may have been able to get the best of an impotent President Carter but he understood strength.

Ronaldus Magnus at age 69 was the oldest man ever to be inaugurated POTUS.