Today in History - History - August 2nd

1940Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death

1981Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1782George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction

1907Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit

1990US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia

1969Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion

1798British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile

1934Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces

1928Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1964Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open

1924James Baldwin, New York, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country), (d. 1987)

1905Myrna Loy, Helena Mont, actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair), (d. 1993)

1754Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC, (d. 1825)

1834Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)

1904Novelist Hermann Hesse (27) weds Maria Bernoulli

1978Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young (32) weds Pegi Morton

1882Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith

1968Later President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (21) weds lawyer Jose Miguel Arroyo (22)

1859Horace Mann, American education advocate, dies at 63

1922Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (telephone), dies at 75

1923warren harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57

1876Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's