Today in History - History - August 10th

1934Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player

1986Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

1904Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest

1941FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland

1921FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello

19808th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley

1943Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots

1949Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1950"Sunset Boulevard", starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, premieres at Radio City Music Hall

1970Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"

1898Jack Haley [John Joseph], Boston, Massachusetts, American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue)

1959Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour)

1967Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn New York, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988)

1874Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st US President (1929-1933), (d. 1964)

1969Economist Robert F. Engle (26) weds psychologist Marianne Eger

2002Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) weds "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (34) at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii

1848Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York

2000Lead vocalist Dave Matthews (33) weds Jennifer Ashley Harper

1933Actress Hedy Lamarr (19) weds Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33)

1941Actor Jackie Coogan (26) weds actress Flower Parry in Gardnerville, Nevada

1912British literary figure (author of "To the Lighthouse") Virginia Woolf (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31)

1946Playwright Moss Hart (41) weds singer and actress Kitty Carlisle (35)

2002Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)

1945Robert H. Goddard, American rocket pioneer, dies at 62