1852: Margaret “Peggy” Taylor died.
1881: Unable to retain food, a dying James Garfield was “rectally fed” with nutritive enemas (beef broth and eggs).
1891: Sarah Childress Polk died.
1914: Herbert Hoover was asked to head a relief effort for Belgium, which had been blockaded by Germany and Britain in World War I.
1949: Herbert Hoover had a gall bladder attack.