| 1801/03/19 |
Thomas Jefferson |
US President |
Jefferson moves into a new home still smelling of fresh plaster. He will soon replace the outdoor privy with two indoor WCs, install a wine cellar, hang service bells and upgrade the kitchen for his French chef with stew stoves, boilers and ranges. |
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| 1841/04/04 |
William Henry Harrison |
Died |
On Sunday, President William Harrison dies in The White House. His doctor, Thomas Miller, diagnosed Harrison's cause of death as "pneumonia of the lower lobe of the right lung". |
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Death of US President William Harrison |
| 1850/07/07 |
Zachary Taylor |
Died |
President Zachary Taylor's physician, assisted by a Baltimore quack, applies heroic medicine by drugging the president with ipecac, calomel, opium and quinine (at 40 grains a dose) and bleeding and blistering him. |
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Death of President Zachary Taylor |
| 1862/02/20 |
William Wallace Lincoln |
Died |
On Thursday evening Willie Lincoln passes away. "My poor boy. He was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so much. It is hard, hard to have him die!" Abraham Lincoln |
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Death of William Lincoln |
| 1876/06/07 |
Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene |
Born |
Ida Marie Honore Grant, wife of Frederick Dent Grant, gives birth to a daughter, Julia Dent Grant, at the home of her in laws, The White House in Washington DC. |
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| 1881/07/26 |
James A Garfield |
Victim |
Alex Bell uses a metal detector of his own invention to try find the bullet in Garfield. He was unsuccessful due, in part, to interference from Garfield's metal bed and Dr D Willard Bliss insistence of only examining the President's right side. |
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Assassination of James Garfield |
| 1881/07/26 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
Alex Bell uses a metal detector of his own invention to try find the bullet in Garfield. He was unsuccessful due, in part, to interference from Garfield's metal bed and Dr D Willard Bliss insistence of only examining the President's right side. |
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Assassination of James Garfield |
| 1903/02/00 |
John Singer Sargent |
Painter |
At the invitation of Theodore Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent lives in the White House during the month of February to work on Roosevelt's official presidential portrait. |
Theodore Roosevelt (Sargent painting) |
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| 1903/02/00 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Sitter |
At the invitation of Theodore Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent lives in the White House during the month of February to work on Roosevelt's official presidential portrait. |
Theodore Roosevelt (Sargent painting) |
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| 1919/10/02 |
Edith Wilson |
First Lady |
Edith Wilson finds the president unconscious on the bathroom floor of their private White House quarters with a cut on his head. Woodrow Wilson had suffered a near-fatal stroke leaving him unable to speak or move. |
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Treaty of Versailles |
| 1919/10/02 |
Woodrow Wilson |
Health |
Edith Wilson finds the president unconscious on the bathroom floor of their private White House quarters with a cut on his head. Woodrow Wilson had suffered a near-fatal stroke leaving him unable to speak or move. |
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Treaty of Versailles |