AUGUST 5
1984:American long-distance runner Joan Benoit wins the first women's
Olympic marathon at the Summer Games in Los Angeles, running 26.2 miles
in 2 hours, 24 minutes and 52 seconds to take home the gold medal.
1962: Film star Marilyn Monroe is found dead in the bedroom of
her Los Angeles home, presumably from an overdose of sleeping pills.
She was 36 years old.
1975: President Gerald Ford signs a congressional resolution,
proposed by Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia, restoring American citizenship
to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at Arlington House, the Lee family home, in Arlington, Va.
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