In 1851, Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
In 1883, the first non-league baseball game to be played under electric lights took place in Fort Wayne, Ind.
In 1886, President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony. Cleveland is, to date, the only president to marry in the executive mansion while in office.
In 1924, Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland. It was the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.