On this date
In 1924, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits. In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, 37, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. In 1966, U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people.
Ten years ago: U.S. authorities said four Muslim men had been prevented from carrying out a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery running through populous New York residential neighborhoods.
Five years ago: Richard Dawson, 79, a Britishborn entertainer who made his mark in the 1960s television sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and who later became a popular TV game show host, died in Los Angeles. One year ago: Autopsy results showed musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.