In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
In 1851, Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
In 1883, the first non-league baseball game to be played under electric lights took place, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In 1886, President Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony. (To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the executive mansion while in office.)
In 1924, Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
In 1941, baseball's Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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In 1946, 50 years ago, the Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.
In 1966, the U.S. space probe Surveyor I landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a communist country.
In 1987, President Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
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