1886-Grover Cleveland is first to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
1899-Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1910-Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1924-U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians
1925-NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1953-Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1965-Second of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges River, India)
1966-U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; first lunar soft-landing
1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
1977-NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1983-Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinatti
1986-Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1989-14 year old Scott Isaacs spells “spoliator” to win 1989 Spelling Bee