1862: Rutherford Hayes was shot in the left arm, shattering bone and causing extensive blood loss at the Battle of South Mountain.
1874: Maria Crofts Halpin gave birth to a son she named Oscar Folsom Cleveland and identified Grover Cleveland as the father.
1891: Electricity was installed in the White House. The (Benjamin) Harrisons were so frightened by it that they waited for an electrician to come in the morning to turn off the lights.
1892: The tuberculosis of Caroline Harrison (wife of Benjamin Harrison) was made public.
1901: William McKinley died.