The first telephone was installed in the telegraph room in the White House, thanks to President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Uber became a public company, opening on the New York Stock Exchange.
Jeffrey Dahmer got baptized while in prison at Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.
The USSR attempted to launch an uncrewed spacecraft to Mars.
Mother's Day was officially celebrated for the first time in Grafton, West Virginia.
US Geological Survey issued a statement revealing that 39 Montana glaciers have reduced in size from 39 to 85 percent in the last 50 years.
