On May 26, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924, which barred immigration from Asia and restricted the total number of immigrants from other parts of the world to 165,000 annually.

In 1927, the Ford Model T officially ended production after 15 million units.

In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.

In 1967, the Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released.

In 2009, California’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that had taken place before the ban were still valid. (Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in June 2015.)