"It's officially "Washington's Birthday", but the name has evolved informally over the years to honor not just the first president, but all 43 of them.
The information page gave me some great insight into how life has evolved in America:
a) Millard Fillmore the nation's 13th President from 1850 to 1853 was the first president to have a bathtub with running water.
b) Rutherford B. Hayes the 19th President was the first president to have a phone installed in the White House .
c) Benjamin Harrison the 23rd President was the first president to install electricity in the White House as well as being the first president to have a Christmas Tree in the White House and the last president to have a beard.
d) Woodrow Wilson the 28th President in office was the first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office.
e) Herbert Hoover the 31st President signed a law that made the "Star-Spangled Banner" the National Anthem based on an 1814 poem by Francis Scott Key.
f) Gerald Ford the 38th President was surprisingly domestic and enjoyed "cooking his own breakfast".
g) Jimmy Carter the 39th President was the first president to be born in a hospital, thus begging the question, where were the other presidents born before him?
h) Ronald Reagan the 40th President in office was the oldest president to have ever served as well as one of the nation's most likable presidents.
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