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Events

• In Fort Wayne, Indiana, the first baseball game was played under electric lights at night– 1883
• Grover Cleveland became the first president to marry in the White House– 1886
• Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the U.S.– 1924
• Kraft’s Velveeta invented– 1928
• Mariners’ Museum established in Newport News, Virginia– 1930
• President FDR formally accepted the swimming pool addition to the White House– 1933
• Elizabeth II crowned queen of England– 1953
• US spacecraft Surveyor I made successful soft landing on the Moon and began to relay first close up pictures of the Moon– 1966
• 13-year-old Anurag Kashyap correctly spelled “appoggiatura” to win National Scripps Spelling Bee– 2005
• Actor Patrick Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace– 2010
• At the White House, Sir Paul McCartney accepted the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song– 2010
• Sukanya Roy won 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee with word cymotrichous”“– 2011