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| 1851 | Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol. |
| 1886 | President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony. |
| 1897 | Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration." |
| 1924 | Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians. |
| 1941 | Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| 1946 | The Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic. |
| 1953 | Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. |
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| 1987 | President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. |
| 1995 | A U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, was rescued six days later. |
| 1997 | Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. |
| 1998 | Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English. |
| 2005 | Georgia "runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks pleaded no contest to faking her own abduction; she was sentenced to probation, community service and a fine. |
| 2006 | Canadian authorities announced they had foiled a homegrown terrorist attack by arresting 17 suspects. |
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