#OTD in 1901, the country learned Booker T. Washington had dined at the White House. A US senator said a thousand Black Southerners must be killed "before they will learn their place again." trlibrary.com/tr/complex-legacy/race

125 years ago today, Booker T. Washington became the first African American to dine as a guest of the President and his family at the White House. A working dinner about Southern appointments. No photograph of it exists. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/booker-t-washington

#OTD in 1886, TR was nominated for mayor of New York without being in the room — a Tribune reporter brought him the news at his club. He finished third. Four days later he sailed for London under a false name to marry Edith Carow. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library mourns Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham, Trustee since 2016 and distinguished historian of Native America and the American West. He helped guide the Library from early vision to opening day. Deepest sympathy to Patti and the Beckham family.

#OTD in 1912, shot in the chest in Milwaukee, TR's first concern was the man who shot him: "see that there is no violence done to him." Then he spoke for eighty minutes. The bullet was never removed. trlibrary.com/tr/post-presidency/assassination-attempt

#OTD in 1902, at about a quarter to ten at night, there was a knock at the President's door: J. Pierpont Morgan, with the operators' answer. The coal strike was 154 days old. TR was on crutches, with a general standing by to seize the mines. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/coal-strike

#OTD in 1912, a Michigan weekly printed that TR "gets drunk, too, and that not infrequently." He sued. The publisher admitted at trial he could find no one who had seen it. TR asked the court for nominal damages only: six cents. trlibrary.com/tr/post-presidency/bull-moose

#OTD in 1910, TR climbed into an open biplane outside St. Louis and went up — two laps, three minutes twenty seconds, sitting on the wing. "That was the bulliest experience I ever had." First American president to fly. He had been out of office 19 months. trlibrary.com/tr/post-presidency

#OTD in 1905, TR set aside three islands for birds in one day. The orders begin with four words: "It is hereby ordered that…" One of the three, Passage Key in Tampa Bay, has since washed away. It is still a refuge. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency/conservation/bird-reserves

#OTD in 1899, a correspondent proposed launching Governor Roosevelt at the presidency. He forwarded it with one sentence: "such a movement as he suggests would be altogether premature and ill-advised." The proposal, his editor judged, was for 1904. trlibrary.com/tr/rise-to-power/governor

#OTD in 1880, three weeks before his wedding, a 21-year-old wrote in his diary: "a diamond crescent a ruby bracelet and a saphire ring — in all about 2500 dollars! … Three weeks from today we are married! Oh my darling, my darling!" trlibrary.com/tr/early-life

#OTD in 1903, a grand jury indicted the man who until that April had been the government's own lawyer for the Post Office Department. TR later: "'Turn the rascals out.'… we turned our own rascals out." Not all of them. trlibrary.com/tr/presidency

#OTD in 1913, TR sailed for South America: "This is where I commence my mountaineering." He was not going to the River of Doubt — that was proposed to him three weeks later in Rio, by the colonel who had found and named it five years before. trlibrary.com/tr/post-presidency/river-of-doubt