1923: Warren Harding died; Coolidge succeeded him.
1927: Calvin Coolidge delivered the written statement “I do not choose to run for president in 1928” to reporters.
1943: At 02:30, John Kennedy’s boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.
1976: The mysterious Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak occurred.
2000: Gerald Ford suffered a stroke, with posterior cerebral circulatory compromise, for which he was anticoagulated.