Today in History - History - August 15th

199981st PGA Championship: Tiger Woods shoots a 277 at Medinah Country Club

199051st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player

1989In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines

1040King Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth (not murdered in his sleep as per Shakespeare's play). The latter does succeed him as King.

1986President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger

1994South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning

1950Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title

18924th & last British government of William Gladstone forms

1914German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured

200587th PGA Championship: Phil Mickelson shoots a 276 at Baltusrol Golf Club

1925Oscar Peterson, Montreal Quebec, Canadian jazz pianist and composer

1924Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president

1990Jennifer Lawrence, Louisville, Kentucky, American actress (Winter's Bone, Silver Linings Playbook )

1769Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsica, resident of Elba (emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15), (d. 1821)

1954Stieg Larsson [Karl Stig-Erland Larsson], Skelleftehamn, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

1972Ben Affleck, Berkeley California, actor (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor)

2009Actor Joseph Fiennes (39) weds model María Dolores Diéguez in Tuscany, Italy

1958Singer Buddy Holly weds receptionist Maria Santiago

1057Macbeth, King of Scots, slain by son of King Duncan

1935Will Rogers, humorist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55