This is the more pertinent anniversary today …

… which I actually remember watching, though at 4 years old, staying up well past my bedtime, I didn’t understand the significance of what I was watching.

Two years later came something unrelated and just odd, as the Washington Post reports:

The Nats will host the Brewers on July 20.

The last two times that happened, President Richard Nixon showed up.

The last time, in 1971, he came with about 3,800 of his best friends. He waved to Washington’s pitcher, chatted with Ted Williams and received a warm greeting from the crowd.

“Usually, a Chief Executive receives a mixed reception at the ball park,” The Post noted at the time.

 

Nixon did not appear at today’s game.