Today in History - History - August 1st

1993Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY

1711Surrounded Tsar Peter the Great flees Azov

1978Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games

1944Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested

1914Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I) of Russia in WWI

1951David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election

1936Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

1957Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)

1946US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

1991Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires

1963Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.], Monessen Pennsylvania, rapper (Gangsta Paradise)

1819Herman Melville, New York, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), (d. 1891)

1744Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, Paris, French naturalist (Lamarckian evolution)

10 BCClaudius, Lugdunum Gaul, Roman Emperor (41-54)

1951Actor Max Von Sydow (22) weds actress Christina Olin

1986Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal

1942Actress Janet Leigh (14) weds childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18) in Reno, Nevada

1912Physicist Niels Bohr (26) weds Margrethe Norlund at a civil ceremony in Slagelse, Denmark

1995F1 driver Michael Schumacher (26) weds Corinna Betsch in Kerpen, Germany

2009Actress-comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub (38) weds personal trainer Matthew Rolph in an impromptu wedding in Las Vegas

2009Fashion model Rhea Durham (34) weds actor and producer Mark Wahlberg (41) at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills

2010"Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (33) weds business consultant Kimberly Brook at the Kabbalah Center in Tel Aviv, Israel

30 BCMark Antony, Roman Politician and General, commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium at 53

1980Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61

1464Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at 74

2009Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (1986-1992) (b. 1933)

1903Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, dies at 51

1944Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65