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5 Things To Know Today: Monday, Feb. 20

Here's your local guide to what's happening in Weston, Redding and Easton today.

• Happy President's Day — , Redding and Weston town halls are closed today.

• President Harry S. Truman's middle name is actually just the letter 's' — his parents paid homage to two of his ancestors, both whose names started with that letter.

• Though President Barack Obama is our 44th president, only 43 men have actually served in that office. Grover Cleveland was the country's 22nd and 24th president.

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• Eight U.S. presidents have died in office — William Henry Harrison (illness), Zachary Taylor (illness), Abraham Lincoln (assassination), James Garfield (assassination), William McKinley (assassination), Warren G. Harding (illness), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (illness) and John F. Kennedy (assassination).

• James Buchanan, the 15th president, was the only president to never marry.

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