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A story about Prince Philip, who died today at 99. The weekend of the Kennedy assassination, he flew to Washington for the funeral. At the White House on Sunday, Nov.

President Eisenhower suffered a stroke in the Oval Office this day in 1957, impairing his speech. In 1958 he wrote a letter giving VP Nixon the authority to take over

1/This Day, 1848: "Old Rough and Ready" Zachary Taylor was elected as the 12th President; he would die after 16 months in office - probably from the bad White House

Abraham Lincoln, a former one-term Congressman and lawyer, condemned slavery - this day in 1854 - during a speech criticizing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier.

WWR likes history, writes history books and gives history talks because the past so often tells us much about the present. Case in point: the Alien and Sedition Acts, the

Rapid acceleration of U.S. #coronavirus cases: Jan. 21: 1Jan. 31: 7Feb. 10: 13Feb. 20: 27Feb. 29: 70Mar. 10: 1,018Mar. 20: 17,935Mar. 30: 160,718 (3,002 dead) Apr. 10: 499,252 (18,637 dead)(Sources: