May 18, 1970- The first time two men file for a marriage license in the United States
A senior deputy clerk of Hennepin County District Court, administered oaths to James and Richard.
Richard Jack Baker and James M. McConnell hold a press conference announcing their plans to marry and go to the Minneapolis city clerk’s office. The clerk asks a lawyer’s opinion and hears that issuing the license would “result in an undermining and destruction of the entire legal concept of our family structure in all areas of law.”