1777: Washington ordered the entire Continental Army to be vaccinated against smallpox.

1819: Hannah Hoes Van Buren died of tuberculosis.

1826: Millard Fillmore married Abigail Powers.

1918: Theodore Roosevelt was treated for a thigh abscess, blood loss and fainting, inflammatory arthritis, and bilateral otitis media when he returned from his Amazon exploration.

1993: Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act.