1776: Thomas Jefferson completed his writing of the Declaration of Independence.
1812: Congress under James Madison declared war on Britain.
1879: Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton.
1941: Gerald Ford graduated from Yale Law School with an LLB degree.
1954: Harry Truman was hospitalized for the emergency removal of an inflamed gall bladder. He also had an appendectomy.
1955: Lyndon Johnson probably suffered a mild heart attack.