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.

2016

Autopsy results revealed that musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid.