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On July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong passed away at his home in Queens, NY. Two days later, more than 30,000 came to pay their respects to the beloved jazz legend. Louis Armstrong was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, just a few miles away from his home in Corona.
By Dan Kois. Starting Wednesday evening, former President Reagan will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Reagan's coffin will lie on Lincoln's catafalque within the rotunda. What is a catafalque, and why does the United States still have Lincoln's? Briefly, it's the second-to-last resting place of America's most distinguished deceased. Catafalque is one of those words that most of the time exists solely to stump children in the National Spelling Bee.