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Results: Facts about the Births & Deaths of U.S. Presidents

Published on 07/14/2018
Anonymous
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Here are some strange facts & coincidences in the lives & deaths of the U.S. commander-in-chief. How many did you know?
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Facts about the Births & Deaths of U.S. Presidents
Harry Truman (33rd) & Gerald Ford (38th) both died on December 26. Truman died in 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri of cardiovascular disease. Ford died in 2006 in Rancho Mirage, California of vascular diseases. At the time of his death, at age 93, Ford was the president who had lived the longest life, though his record was later broken by George H.W. Bush (41st).
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James K. Polk (11th) & Warren G. Harding (29th) were both born on November 2 but seven decades apart. Polk was born in North Carolina in 1795. Harding was born in Ohio in 1865.
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Millard Fillmore (13th) & William Howard Taft (27th) both died on March 8. Fillmore died in Buffalo, New York in 1874 at age 74 as a result of a stroke. Taft died in Washington, D.C. in 1930 at age 72 of heart disease. At 340 pounds, it's somewhat remarkable that Taft exceeded the life expectancy of his time. He once wrote a friend: "Took a long horseback ride today, feel fine." The friend replied: "How's the horse?"
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The birth of George Washington (1st), though not on July 4, is interesting in its own respect. Traditionally stated as February 22, 1732 an argument could be made to the contrary. Great Britain didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until the passage of The Calendar Act of 1751 by Parliament. Formerly, the Julian calendar was in use in Britain & its colonies. The change added 11 days to the date. This act also changed the date of the new year from March 25 to January 1. So, if there was a calendar present at Washington's birth it might have read February 11.
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Perhaps the most coincidental events in U.S. history are the deaths of Thomas Jefferson (3rd) & John Adams (2nd). They died on the same day, in the same year & on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1826. It has been stated that John Adams's last words were "Jefferson still survives." The truth of this is in question, but if true, Adams was mistaken. While Adams's heart was failing in Massachusetts, Jefferson had passed away some 5 hours earlier from a variety of maladies. James Monroe (5th) also died on July 4, but in the year 1831. The only president of the United States to be born on July 4 was Calvin Coolidge (30th). He was born in Plymouth, Vermont on July 4, 1872.
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