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After a reception at the Lee home, where Edith Carow dances the evening away, the couple leave around 4 p.m. for a suite in Springfield.","significance":4,"location":"Boston","location_id":"boston-ma","lat":42.35883,"lon":-71.05783,"tags":["family","celebration"],"people":["alice-hathaway-lee-roosevelt","elliott-roosevelt","edith-kermit-roosevelt","frances-theodora-smith"]},{"date":"1879-10-27","age":21,"headline":"Turning 21, thinking of Father","summary":"Roosevelt celebrates his 21st birthday at Oyster Bay surrounded by his uncle James A. Roosevelt, Aunt Annie, Aunt Lizzie and cousins West, Emlen and Alfred; Emily Swan and other young women come for tea, charades and dancing. Amid the joy he thinks sadly of his late father and prays to live as he would have wished.","significance":3,"location":"Oyster Bay","location_id":"oyster-bay-ny","lat":40.86565,"lon":-73.53207,"tags":["family","celebration","grief","religion"],"people":["james-alfred-roosevelt","aunt-lizzie","anna-bulloch-gracie","west-roosevelt","emlen-roosevelt","alfred-roosevelt","emily-swan","theodore-roosevelt-sr"]},{"date":"1886-10-27","age":28,"headline":"A birthday rally at Cooper Union","summary":"Roosevelt turns 28 the day his nomination is formally ratified at Cooper Union, where he calls for sweeping reform.","significance":3,"location":"Cooper Union","location_id":"cooper-union","lat":40.72945,"lon":-73.99046,"tags":["campaign","politics","celebration"],"people":[]},{"date":"1904-10-27","age":46,"headline":"A 46th birthday, and no third term","summary":"Roosevelt turns 46 with a celebration and good wishes from New York's Hungarian Republican Club. He writes a memo on the Standard Oil money, twice more tells Cortelyou to give it back, and declares to Arthur von Briesen that he will not seek a third term.","significance":3,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["celebration","campaign","trusts"],"people":["francis-b-loomis","oliver","philander-knox","william-h-moody","george-cortelyou","albert-shaw","robert-j-collier","arthur-von-briesen"]},{"date":"1908-10-27","age":50,"headline":"Fifty, and over every jump","summary":"Roosevelt marks his 50th birthday by riding his horse Roswell over every jump in Rock Creek Park. The Hungarian Republican Club calls with birthday wishes, and he urges Taft to speak out on labor.","significance":3,"location":"Rock Creek Park","location_id":"rock-creek-park-dc","lat":38.96185,"lon":-77.04574,"tags":["celebration","outdoors","campaign"],"people":["william-howard-taft"]},{"date":"1918-10-27","age":60,"headline":"Turning sixty","summary":"Roosevelt marks his 60th birthday with letters to Kermit and Corinne, joking that he is now officially as old as he feels and calling himself Methuselah's understudy.","significance":3,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family","celebration"],"people":["kermit-roosevelt","corinne-roosevelt-robinson"]},{"date":"1862-10-27","age":4,"headline":"A birthday supper and a big laugh","summary":"For Teedie's fourth birthday the family gives a supper party. He announces that he likes chicken, roast beef and all good things more than salt water, and the laughter leaves him puffed up for days.","significance":2,"location":"Antietam","location_id":"antietam-md","lat":39.46776,"lon":-77.73132,"tags":["family","childhood","celebration"],"people":[]},{"date":"1873-10-27","age":15,"headline":"Turning 15 in mid-ocean","summary":"Roosevelt celebrates his 15th birthday aboard ship on the way home from Europe.","significance":2,"location":"Dresden","location_id":"dresden-germany","lat":51.05089,"lon":13.73832,"tags":["family","travel","celebration"],"people":[]},{"date":"1874-10-27","age":16,"headline":"Sixteen years old","summary":"Roosevelt turns 16.","significance":2,"location":"Oyster Bay","location_id":"oyster-bay-ny","lat":40.86565,"lon":-73.53207,"tags":["family","celebration"],"people":[]},{"date":"1875-10-27","age":17,"headline":"Roosevelt turns 17","summary":"Theodore Roosevelt celebrates his 17th birthday.","significance":2,"location":"Oyster Bay","location_id":"oyster-bay-ny","lat":40.86565,"lon":-73.53207,"tags":["celebration","childhood"],"people":[]},{"date":"1876-10-27","age":18,"headline":"Eighteen at the Centennial Exposition","summary":"Roosevelt marks his 18th birthday in Philadelphia, where he has come to see the Centennial Exposition. His father writes to tell him what a good son he is.","significance":2,"location":"Centennial Exhibition","location_id":"centennial-exhibition","lat":39.98678,"lon":-75.21725,"tags":["family","travel","celebration"],"people":["theodore-roosevelt-sr"]},{"date":"1878-10-27","age":20,"headline":"Turning twenty","summary":"Roosevelt marks his 20th birthday at Oyster Bay with his mother and sisters, but the day is shadowed by longing for his father. He also shoots two gray squirrels.","significance":2,"location":"Oyster Bay","location_id":"oyster-bay-ny","lat":40.86565,"lon":-73.53207,"tags":["family","grief","celebration"],"people":["martha-bulloch-roosevelt","anna-roosevelt-cowles","corinne-roosevelt-robinson","theodore-roosevelt-sr"]},{"date":"1881-10-27","age":23,"headline":"Twenty-three and one year married","summary":"Roosevelt turns 23 and marks his first wedding anniversary with Alice.","significance":2,"location":"New York City","location_id":"new-york-ny","lat":40.71427,"lon":-74.00597,"tags":["family","celebration"],"people":["alice-hathaway-lee-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1883-10-27","age":25,"headline":"Twenty-five, and three years wed","summary":"Roosevelt turns 25 and marks his third wedding anniversary with Alice.","significance":2,"location":"York","location_id":"york-england","lat":53.95763,"lon":-1.08271,"tags":["family","celebration"],"people":["alice-hathaway-lee-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1884-10-27","age":26,"headline":"A literary birthday dinner in Boston","summary":"Roosevelt turns 26 in Boston and dines at Henry Cabot Lodge's home with three celebrated writers: the novelist William Dean Howells, the poet Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.","significance":2,"location":"Boston","location_id":"boston-ma","lat":42.35883,"lon":-71.05783,"tags":["friendship","society","celebration"],"people":["henry-cabot-lodge","william-dean-howells","thomas-bailey-aldrich","oliver-wendell-holmes-sr"]},{"date":"1895-10-27","age":37,"headline":"A 37th birthday, a week from the vote","summary":"On his 37th birthday Roosevelt writes Bamie that he is grateful only one more week remains before the election.","significance":2,"location":"Oyster Bay","location_id":"oyster-bay-ny","lat":40.86565,"lon":-73.53207,"tags":["family","campaign"],"people":["anna-roosevelt-cowles"]},{"date":"1898-10-27","age":40,"headline":"Turning 40 on the stump","summary":"Roosevelt marks his 40th birthday with 14 speeches, among them Canandaigua, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Auburn and Syracuse.","significance":2,"location":"Auburn","location_id":"auburn-ny","lat":42.93202,"lon":-76.5672,"tags":["campaign","celebration"],"people":[]},{"date":"1899-10-27","age":41,"headline":"A forty-first birthday on the stump","summary":"Roosevelt marks his forty-first birthday with a speech at Elkton, Maryland, then catches a train home toward Albany.","significance":2,"location":"Elkton","location_id":"elkton-md","lat":39.60678,"lon":-75.83327,"tags":["campaign","celebration"],"people":[]},{"date":"1900-10-27","age":42,"headline":"A 42nd birthday on the rails","summary":"Roosevelt turns 42 making train stops across New York and speaking at night in Binghamton. 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He writes Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma, tells Quay the naval maneuvers will go ahead despite the strike, and asks to see Joe Bishop.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["celebration","foreign-policy","navy"],"people":["tomas-estrada-palma","matthew-s-quay","joseph-bucklin-bishop"]},{"date":"1903-10-27","age":45,"headline":"Forty-five, with greetings from Hungarian Republicans","summary":"Roosevelt turns 45. 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Hugo Munsterberg joins Root and Metcalf for lunch.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["celebration","race","diplomacy","labor"],"people":["victor-h-metcalf","theodore-p-shonts","hugo-munsterberg","elihu-root","kermit-roosevelt","eugene-hale","samuel-gompers","herbert-parsons","ethan-a-hitchcock","francis-e-warren"]},{"date":"1907-10-27","age":49,"headline":"Turning 49, with a newfangled wallet","summary":"Roosevelt turns 49. A Hungarian Republican club from New York City calls late in the evening with birthday greetings. Edith tells Kermit she gave him a modern wallet for bills and calling cards; he was sweet about it, but she could see he was let down.","significance":2,"location":"Washington, D.C.","location_id":"washington-dc","lat":38.89511,"lon":-77.03637,"tags":["family","celebration"],"people":["edith-kermit-roosevelt","kermit-roosevelt"]},{"date":"1909-10-27","age":51,"headline":"A 51st birthday on the march","summary":"Roosevelt turns 51 marching hard across rolling hills, with no time to hunt. The party crosses the equator again into cold nights, and he likens the country to Oregon and northern California.","significance":2,"location":"Uasin Gishu Plateau","location_id":"uasin-gishu-plateau","lat":0.47719,"lon":35.30506,"tags":["africa","travel","celebration"],"people":[]},{"date":"1910-10-27","age":52,"headline":"A 52nd birthday on the stump","summary":"Roosevelt spends his 52nd birthday campaigning through the Mohawk Valley, from Fonda to Utica.","significance":2,"location":"Amsterdam","location_id":"amsterdam-ny","lat":42.93622,"lon":-74.19058,"tags":["campaign","celebration"],"people":["virginia-murray"]},{"date":"1911-10-27","age":53,"headline":"Turning 53 and weighing a run","summary":"On his 53rd birthday Roosevelt tells Marshall Stimson he won't accept the 1912 nomination, yet confides to California's Governor Hiram Johnson that he may be the best one to lead a lost cause. He also writes Charles McCarthy, Ray Stannard Baker and Will Cowles.","significance":2,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["politics","campaign","panama-canal"],"people":["william-sheffield-cowles","hiram-johnson","william-howard-taft","robert-m-la-follette","charles-mccarthy","ray-stannard-baker","marshall-stimson"]},{"date":"1912-10-27","age":54,"headline":"A 54th birthday with the family","summary":"The family gathers at Sagamore Hill to celebrate Roosevelt turning 54. He writes Bamie that he loved her gift and feels strong, though the wound has not yet closed.","significance":2,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family","celebration","health"],"people":["anna-roosevelt-cowles","william-sheffield-cowles"]},{"date":"1913-10-27","age":55,"headline":"Turning 55 in Sao Paulo","summary":"On his 55th birthday, Roosevelt is received by President Alves of Sao Paulo, sees the city and lectures at the university on \"Character and Civilization.\"","significance":2,"location":"São Paulo","location_id":"sao-paulo-brazil","lat":-23.5475,"lon":-46.63611,"tags":["south-america","celebration"],"people":["president-alves"]},{"date":"1916-10-27","age":58,"headline":"A penknife for his 58th birthday","summary":"On his 58th birthday Roosevelt speaks in Indiana, including South Bend. Leaving Buffalo in his Pullman, the three traveling reporters give him a penknife to replace one he lost; he hangs it on his watch chain next to his small gold pencil and Phi Beta Kappa key.","significance":2,"location":"Buffalo","location_id":"buffalo-ny","lat":42.88645,"lon":-78.87837,"tags":["campaign","celebration","press"],"people":["edwin-d-lewis","cronin","yoder"]},{"date":"1917-10-27","age":59,"headline":"Turning 59 with a houseful of grandchildren","summary":"On his 59th birthday Roosevelt writes Ted's wife Eleanor about her children, Gracie, Teddy and Cornelius, who are living with their grandparents while Ted and Eleanor serve in Europe.","significance":2,"location":"Sagamore Hill","location_id":"sagamore-hill","lat":40.88558,"lon":-73.50107,"tags":["family","celebration"],"people":["eleanor-butler-roosevelt","grace-roosevelt","theodore-roosevelt-iii","cornelius-van-schaack-roosevelt-iii"]},{"date":"1859-10-27","age":1,"headline":"Teedie is one","summary":"Roosevelt 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