Today in History - History - August 15th

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

199051st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player

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

1981Ian Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford

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.

18924th & last British government of William Gladstone forms

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

1993Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1

1965Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open

1982Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic

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

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

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

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

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

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

1958Singer Buddy Holly weds receptionist Maria Santiago

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

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

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