The first telephone was installed in the telegraph room in the White House, thanks to President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Jeffrey Dahmer got baptized while in prison at Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.
The USSR attempted to launch an uncrewed spacecraft to Mars.
An atomic submarine circumnavigated the globe.
Mother's Day was officially celebrated for the first time in Grafton, West Virginia.
The Golden Spike was driven.
