1886 49-year-old President Grover Cleveland became the first president to get married in the White House, wedding 21-year-old Frances Folsom.

1924 Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, the Indian Citizenship Act, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.

1941 Baseball’s “Iron Horse,”

Lou Gehrig, died in New York of the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease; he was 37.

1953 Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at age 27 at a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

1999 South Africans went to the polls in their second post-apartheid election, giving the African National Congress a decisive victory; retiring T:5.6875” President Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.