1861: Edith Roosevelt was born.
1914: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson died of Bright’s Disease.
1943: The shipwrecked Kennedy etched on a coconut, “NAURO ISL, COMMANDER . . . NATIVE KNOWS
POS’IT . . . HE CAN PILOT . . . 11 ALIVE, NEED SMALL BOAT . . . KENNEDY”
1945: The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
1974: Richard Nixon, under duress, drank heavily and acted irrationally.
2013: An asymptomatic George W. Bush had a coronary stent placed after a blockage was discovered.