1768: Elizabeth Kortright (Monroe) was born.

1880: Theodore Roosevelt graduated from Harvard.

1893: Grover Cleveland and his doctors set out on a secret trip to perform an operation to remove his cancer.

1921: Taft became Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

1924: Calvin Coolidge’s son Calvin blistered his foot after playing tennis without socks. He went on to become septic and die, devastating his parents.