TODAY in HISTORY

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 — N.Y. 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 R 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