Today in history: The Mayaguez incident

Eighteen U.S. servicemen were killed

Mayaguez
(Image credit: (Bettmann/CORBIS))

May 12, 1903: President Theodore Roosevelt's trip to San Francisco was captured on movie film; it was the first time a pesident was recorded in that medium.

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