TODAY IN HISTORY

1924: Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, 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 a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37.

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.

1966: U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.

1979: Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

1981: The Japanese video arcade game “Donkey Kong” was released by Nintendo.

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. (McVeigh was executed in June 2001.)

2011: In Placerville, California, serial sex offender Phillip Garrido was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard; his wife, Nancy, got a decades-long sentence.

2016: Autopsy results showed superstar musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.

2020: Defying curfews, protesters streamed back into the streets, hours after President Donald Trump urged governors to put down the violence set off by the killing of George Floyd. Mayors and governors from both parties rejected Trump’s threat to use the military against protesters.