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Bill Wall's researches uncover: Pres&Chess. There the USA Presidents having well-known Chess skill or involvement include avid player William Jefferson Clinton and polymath Thomas Jefferson.

Strong Chess player was Rutherford Hayes, the first of the six Presidents from Ohio over 1877-1923. One of the others from Ohio James Garfield was not only strong Chess player but mathematician with this proof of Pythagorean Theorem: Garfield's_Proof. Garfield was one of the three Presidents killed by bullet from 1865 to 1900, as was Kennedy 1963.

Statesman Benjamin Franklin wrote "The Morals of Chess" in 1779 pre-USA a decade before the first President and forming of USA republic with its Constitution taking effect March 1789: Morals_of_Chess.

What was happening 15 years ago to the day?
http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/promdem.html, Neto's Promotions and
Demotions. Also the next couple weeks 2000, Duniho's Wormhole, http://www.chessvariants.org/32turn.dir/wormhole.html, and Citadel originating in 1930s, http://www.chessvariants.org/shape.dir/citadel2.html.

What was happening 20 years ago to the day?
http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/ultima.html.  There are only tens of
articles that say "1995 or 1996." Ultima above was one of those first 
that go back to 1995. When I learned about CVPage summer 1996, there were
items that had been up for about a year. The earliest CVPage material
appears to be turning 20 years old exactly. Abbott's Ultima the game 
turned a round fifty itself in 2012.  Abbott weighed in couple of times still
self-critiquing his own popular CV. It's not a game of power pieces but
close positioning, Ultima, as even LL was not dominating on 8x8. Did Parton
use Long Leaper after Ultima, or did it resurface in Rococo 40 years
later?  No wonder Bodlaender would pick U. first year. I was able to
finish Falcon Chess patent, which ran 1997 to 2012, by researching Pritchard
1994 'ECV' and CVPage 1995- (to date), as well as Dawson's writing til 1951 or 1952 in British Chess magazines.

I started coming here in late 97 or early 98, when we got our first home
pc. I find it amazing that it has been nearly 20 years.

John: I've got you beat by one year. Glad to know I'm not the only one in
the "old fogies" club. :-D

I think there a number of old fogies that are no longer active, but check
in occasionally and will comment if something they were involved in comes
up.

John Lawson has no worry because he has immortality,
http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/pizza-kings.html, assured in the
Pizza Kings, even when he turns 100. Never mind that it's lopsided to the
Pizza Kings.  Let's see P. K. turns 14 this fall or it may have been around a few months earlier than the write-up, having premier variantist Ralph Betza weigh in. Year 2001 or 2000 was right at the start of a decade of unsurpassed proliferation of CV forms.

To catch up with what went on a decade, try David Howe's 'Concise Guide' of 2011, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSconciseguideto, as well as Charles Gilman's M&Bs, still undergoing small revisions.  Since proliferation culminated in those two, Gilman's summarizing about all that can be done, it's good it happened and the present era/decade seems for retrenchment and evaluation.

There may be solutions to Computer dominance within CVPage whilst hackneyed 500-year OrthoChess is on its last gasps.   Deep Blue triumph nears twenty years too, and you don't hear the drivel from f.i.d.e. religionists since then that one-way 64 squares is inviolable (nor Shogi and Xiangqi). These two threads, one for 10 years and the other for 15 years, are also to avoid reinventing the wheel, retrospective filler whenever there is less current.

Pizza Kings is more like immortality-lite. I should have written up my
Nemoroth variant, based on bodily functions, but it would have grossly
violated the CVP's G rating. And I do mean "grossly"...

Liubo.