George HW Bush in 10 dates

WASHINGTON: Here are 10 key dates in the life of George HW Bush, the 41st president of the United States who died Friday at the age of 94:

June 12, 1924: George Herbert Walker Bush is born in Milton, Massachusetts

June 12, 1942: Bush enlists in the US Navy on his 18th birthday, and becomes its youngest pilot, flying 58 combat missions in a torpedo bomber during World War II. He is shot down over the Pacific and rescued at sea

January 6, 1945: Following his discharge from the Navy, Bush marries Barbara Pierce. They have six children: George Walker, Robin (who died at the age of four), John (also known as Jeb), Neil, Marvin and Dorothy

1953: Bush co-founds the Zapata Petroleum Company in Texas

1967-1971: Serves as a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Texas for two terms

1971-1973: Serves as US ambassador to the United Nations

1976-1977: Serves as director of the Central Intelligence Agency

1981-1989: Serves as US vice president under Ronald Reagan, whom Bush had opposed for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980

1989-1993: Serves as US president. In August 1990, Bush leads an international coalition to counter Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and liberates the country in February 1991 with Operation Desert Storm

1992: Bush loses his bid for a second term as president to Democrat Bill Clinton