This morning my mom sent me a page from the NY Times web site with a history of events that occurred on this day.

It tickles me that Eleanor Roosevelt died on the same day as Nixon's "last" press conference, when he lost his gubernatorial election. You wouldn't think that Eleanor Roosevelt had stayed alive that long, until 1962. Kind of like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams (who were fierce political rivals) dying on the same July 4th in 1826. Adams' last words were "Jefferson lives," not knowing that Jefferson had in fact died hours earlier. There's a great West Wing episode about that, and it's one of Pres. Bartlet's favorite stories.