In Tel Aviv, Israel, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who
organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question,
” is condemned to death by an Israeli war crimes tribunal.
He claimed he was just following orders, but the judges
disagreed, finding him guilty on all counts on December
15 and sentencing him to die.
On May 31, 1962, he was hanged near Tel Aviv. His body
was cremated and his ashes thrown into the sea.
George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and
first president of the United States, died at his estate in
Mount Vernon, Virginia. He was 67 years old.
Modern medical authors largely have concluded that the
former president likely died from extensive bloodletting
which may have caused hypovolemic shock.
George Washington’s Death Mask.
Roger Eugene Maris was a professional baseball right fielder
who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball. He is best
known for setting a new MLB single-season home run record
with 61 home runs in 1961.
Maris was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1983. In
response, Maris organized the annual Roger Maris Celebrity
Golf Tournament to raise money for cancer research and
treatment.
He died of the disease at age 51 on December 14, 1985, at M.D.
Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas and was buried at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
Roger Maris, Joe DiMaggio and Cincinatti Reds team
manager at Al Lang Stadium dugout, St. Petersburg,
Florida in 1983.
President Abraham Lincoln announced a grant of amnesty for
Emilie Todd Helm, his wife Mary Lincoln’s half sister and the
widow of a Confederate general.
The pardon was one of the first under Lincoln’s Proclamation
of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which he had announced less
than a week before.
The plan, the president’s blueprint for the reintegration of the
South into the Union, allowed for former Confederates to be
granted amnesty if they took an oath to the United States.
The option was open to all but the highest officials of the
Confederacy. Lincoln’s sister-in-law received the pardon,
but never took the required oath.
Emilie Todd Helm (1836 – 1930)
