Today Is...Abraham Lincoln USA President

Known as Honest Abe, he is known for wearing a really big stove pipe hat which he saw Isambard Kingdom Brunel wearing and decided it looked cool and would make him stand out in the crowd though that probably made John Wilkes Booth's job a lot easier, not hard to miss a 6ft 4" man sat with a chimney on his head even in a dark theatre.
The Bill & Ted film's did give him a catchphrase, 'Be excellent to each other' and 'Party on Dudes' which was much more catchier than 'four score and seven years ago' which nobody can ever work out (It's 87 years).
Something he did take serious was the effects of excessive drinking, something which killed his mother who had a drink addiction, she would drink milk by the bucketful and carried on with the demon milk until it killed her, milk sickness the docs called it.
Lincoln was held in such esteem that his face adorns the $5 note and a 60ft version stares down from the side of a mountain in South Dakota alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt and while Lincoln is certainly not on anyone's radar as being involved in slave trading and actually did everything to free the slaves, when it comes to Washington and Jefferson, oh dear.
His assassination after 4 years of being called Mr President by actor John Wilkes Booth who was mightily ticked that Lincoln was abolishing slavery, may have been a sad, sad day for America but it was a great, great day for Andrew Johnson who because the President the second he hit the opera house floor.