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Headline: This Day in History: First US President George Washington Dies

Caption: December 14, 1799. The former president died at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia from a severe respiratory infection. He had developed the infection the day before after refusing to change out of wet clothes following a horseback ride into freezing sleet. His last words were, “Tis well.”.

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