1814: President James Madison fled as British soldiers entered and burned Washington.
1881: James Garfield had surgery to drain pus from his parotid gland.
1890: Rutherfrod Hayes developed positional vertigo that recurred intermittently for 5 months.
1960: The oral Sabin polio vaccine was approved by the FDA.
2006: Gerald Ford had an angioplasty and two coronary stents.