On this day in 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election, and is forced to contribute the same amount to the Big Ed Smith for Governor campaign.

On this day in 1994, former President Reagan discloses in a letter that he has Alzheimer's disease, confiding to friends that "the all-electric house is the house of the future."


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