1755: Washington’s fever and dysentery improved, but he was still too weak to join General Braddock’s main force in the French and Indian Wars.
1826: Thomas Jefferson died.
1826: John Adams died.
1831: James Monroe died.
1850: Zachary Taylor laid the cornerstone of the Washington Memorial and later that day developed the onset of his fatal gastroenteritis.
1872: Calvin Coolidge was born.
1989: Ronald Reagan was thrown from a horse and knocked unconscious.