"The emotions have been building up for such a long time that er... just to hear that word, guilty."McVeigh is executed 4 years later.

1953Britain's Queen of Elizabeth II is crowned in London's Westminster Abbey. The coronation takes place more than a year after the death of her father, King George VI. 1979Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on the first ever papal visit to a Communist country.

And 1941" I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. "In New York, baseball's Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig of the Yankees dies of the degenerative disease that later carries his name. He was 37.

Today in History, June 2nd, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.