Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi applied for the patents for the radio.
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Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.
P.T. Barnum and his circus began touring the United States.
Mexico elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Fruit producer company Dole was founded in Hawaii.
The White House opened its first indoor swimming pool.
