1830: Elizabeth Kortright Monroe died.
1944: Franklin Roosevelt, responding to criticism that he sent a destroyer to retrieve his dog, said,
“Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks — but Fala does resent them.”
1949: Harry Truman announced that the Soviet Union had exploded its first atomic bomb.
1952: Richard Nixon delivered his “Checkers” speech.