The first telephone was installed in the telegraph room in the White House, thanks to President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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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.
An assassination attempt was made on President George W. Bush.
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president.
Jeffrey Dahmer got baptized while in prison at Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.
Mother's Day was officially celebrated for the first time in Grafton, West Virginia.
