1933 - appointed director of the National Recovery Administration, tasked with bringing industry, labour and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.

Hugh S. Johnson

2006 - Representing individual content creators on the World Wide Web

You

1970 - Chancellor of West Germany, acknowledged for his "bold approach to the Soviet Union and the East Bloc". Renounced German claims on Poland, recognised East Germany, and acknowledged the Holocaust in Poland with the symbolic Kniefall von Warschau.

Willy Brandt

1980 - elected President of the United States in 1980, defeating incumbent President Jimmy Carter.

Ronald Reagan

2002 - Represented by Cynthia Cooper (WorldCom), Coleen Rowley (FBI), and Sherron Watkins (Enron).

The Whistleblowers

1961 - inaugurated as President, ordering the failed invasion of Cuba by U.S.-trained Cuban exiles.

John F. Kennedy

1939 - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, oversaw the signing of a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany before invading eastern Poland.

Joseph Stalin

1945 - President of the US after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, authorising the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Harry S. Truman

1957 - consolidated his leadership of the Soviet Union, surviving a plot to dismiss him by Stalinist members within the Presidium, and leading the Soviet Union into the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1.

Nikita Khrushchev

1997 - chairman and CEO of Intel, recognised as a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and taken as a representative of the Digital Revolution and the tech boom.

Andrew Grove