1790: John Tyler was born.
1813: John Tyler and Letitia Christian married.
1841: William Henry Harrison had hemoptysis. Over the next few days, his doctors tried crude petroleum and Virginia snakeroot, calomel, laudanum, castor oil, hydragyrum (elemental mercury), squill, morphea, tolu, whiskey, and other medicines. He had friction, blistering, and cupping therapy.
1865: The Battle of Appomattox, the final battle of the Civil War, took place.
1874: Lou Henry Hoover was born.
1945: Franklin Roosevelt left on his final trip to Warm Springs.