100: Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier, becoming the first Black man to play Major League Baseball ft. President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick. 99: Zachary Taylor dies in office. Millard Fillmore becomes President98: The USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba killing 266 escalating tensions that lead to the Spanish-American War ft. Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University & Public Historian of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane. 97: President Kennedy sets a goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade96: President Harding dies of a heart attack. Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumes the presidencyLearn more about your ad choices.