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.