Today in History - History - August 1st

1959Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia

1928Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace

1936Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

30 BCOctavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.

1987Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1991Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida

1498Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)

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

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

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

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

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

1770William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition

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

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

1986Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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