Washington on his Deathbed, an 1851 portrait by Junius
Brutus Stearns.

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. His last words were
"’Tis well."

The diagnosis of Washington’s illness and the immediate
cause of his death have been subjects of much debate.       

     
Modern medical authors have concluded that he likely died
from  severe epiglottitis, an inflammation in the throat,
complicated by various treatments which included extensive bloodletting.      
 


        
        
        
        
       

The sarcophagi of George (right) and Martha Washington at
the entrance to their tomb in Mount Vernon.

Marble Statue of George Washington by Jean-Antoine
Houdon, circa 1794 State Capital, Commonwealth of
Virginia, Library of Virginia.

On December 13, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army
of Northern Virginia repulsed a series of attacks by General
Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg,
Virginia.

Andre Braugher, known for his role as Captain Ray Holt on
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine," has died. He was 61.

Braugher’s publicist confirmed to Fox News Digital that he
died following a brief illness.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a police procedural comedy television series that aired on Fox, and later on NBC, from September
17, 2013 to September 16, 2021, for eight seasons and 153 episodes.

Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of
global communications, sending the first radio transmission
across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901.

The message was the letter "s" in Morse code (dot-dot-dot). But
it proved after years of advances by Marconi that radio could
make the world a smaller place.

The wireless signal traveled 2,000 miles from a transmitting
station in Poldhu, Cornwall, in the far southwestern corner of
England, to a receiving station in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi
(25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937)

The world’s second oldest woman has died at the age of 116 at
a nursing home in Japan. Fusa Tatsumi (pictured in each photo),
who was Japan’s oldest person, passed away on Tuesday at a
care facility in Osaka after eating her favorite meal of bean-paste
jelly.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Japanese Sweet Bean Paste Jelly.