1886
Marriage in the White House
Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. president to get married in the White House.
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1924
Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
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1941
Baseball great, Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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1946
In Italy, a plebiscite rejected the monarchy in favor of a republic.
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1953
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
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1997
Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
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2003
The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.
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