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Five Things You Need to Know for Feb. 21, 2011
Five things going on for the 52nd day of the year.
1) Westfield Public Schools are closed this week for mid-winter break.
2) Town offices, the library and the post office are closed today for President's Day.
3) Today is the 163rd anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the 126th anniversary of the dedication of the Washington Monument, the 64th anniversary of the first demonstration of the Polaroid, the 39th anniversary of President Nixon visiting China and the 16th anniversary of Steve Fossett successfully crossing the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
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4) While today is President's Day, in honor of the February birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Patch wanted to recognize the birthdays of all of our presidents. Here is the list.
- George Washington - Feb. 22
- John Adams - Oct. 30
- Thomas Jefferson - April 13
- James Madison - March 16
- James Monroe - April 28
- John Quincy Adams - July 11
- Andrew Jackson - March 15
- Martin Van Burean - Dec. 5
- William Henry Harrison - Feb. 9
- John Tyler - March 29
- James Polk - Nov. 2
- Zachary Taylor - Nov. 24
- Millard Fillmore - Jan. 7
- Franklin Pierce - Nov. 23
- James Buchanan - April 23
- Abraham Lincoln - Feb. 12
- Andrew Johnson - Dec. 29
- Ulysses Grant - April 27
- Rutherford Hayes - Oct. 4
- James Garfield - Nov. 19
- Chester Alan Arthur - Oct. 5
- Grover Cleveland - March 18
- Benjamin Harrison - Aug. 20
- Grover Cleveland makes a comeback, birthday is still March 18.
- William McKinley - Jan. 29
- Theodore Roosevelt - Oct. 27
- William Howard Taft - Sept. 15
- Woodrow Wilson - Dec. 28
- Warren Harding - Nov. 2
- Calvin Coolidge - July 4
- Herbert Hoover - Aug. 10
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Jan. 30
- Harry S Truman - May 8
- Dwight Eisenhower - Oct. 14
- John F. Kennedy - May 29
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Aug. 27
- Richard M. Nixon - Jan. 9
- Gerald Ford - July 14
- Jimmy Carter - Oct. 1
- Ronald Reagan - Feb. 6
- George H.W. Bush - June 12
- Bill Clinton - Aug. 19
- George W. Bush - July 6
- Barack Obama - Aug. 4
5) For more President's Day related information that you need to know today, here is a list of runners-up in each presidential election. (Determined by the second place finisher in electoral votes.) Note that in the 1788, 1792, 1796 and 1800 elections, the second place finisher automatically became the Vice President of the United States.
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- 1788 - John Adams
- 1792 - John Adams
- 1796 - Thomas Jefferson
- 1800 - There was an electoral vote tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr resulting in the House of Representatives electing Jefferson as president. John Adams finished behind Jefferson and Burr in the electoral vote count. Burr became vice president after finishing second in the House vote.
- 1804 - Charles C. Pinckney
- 1808 - Charles C. Pinckney
- 1812 - DeWitt Clinton
- 1816 - Rufus King
- 1820 - John Quincy Adams
- 1824 - Andrew Jackson finished first with 99 electoral votes with John Quincy Adams receiving 84 electoral votes. With 41 electoral votes going to Treasury Secretary William Crawford and 37 electoral votes going to House Speaker Henry Clay, there was no majority winner. The House of Representatives elected Adams over Jackson and Crawford.
- 1828 - John Quincy Adams
- 1832 - Henry Clay
- 1836 - William Henry Harrison
- 1840 - Martin Van Buren
- 1844 - Henry Clay
- 1848 - Lewis Cass
- 1852 - Winfield Scott
- 1856 - John C. Fremont
- 1860 - John C. Breckinridge
- 1864 - George McClellan
- 1868 - Horatio Seymour
- 1872 - Horace Greeley
- 1876 - Samuel Tilden
- 1880 - Winfield Scott Hancock
- 1884 - James Blaine
- 1888 - Grover Cleveland
- 1892 - Benjamin Harrison
- 1896 - William Jennings Bryan
- 1900 - William Jennings Bryan
- 1904 - Alton Parker
- 1908 - William Jennings Bryan
- 1912 - Theodore Roosevelt
- 1916 - Charles Evans Hughes
- 1920 - James M. Cox
- 1924 - John W. Davis
- 1928 - Al Smith
- 1932 - Herbert Hoover
- 1936 - Alf Landon
- 1940 - Wendell Wilkie
- 1944 - Thomas Dewey
- 1948 - Thomas Dewey
- 1952 - Adlai Stevenson
- 1956 - Adlai Stevenson
- 1960 - Richard Nixon
- 1964 - Barry Goldwater
- 1968 - Hubert Humphrey
- 1972 - George McGovern
- 1976 - Gerald Ford
- 1980 - Jimmy Carter
- 1984 - Walter Mondale
- 1988 - Michael Dukakis
- 1992 - George H.W. Bush
- 1996 - Bob Dole
- 2000 - Al Gore
- 2004 - John Kerry
- 2008 - John McCain
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