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1981Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1964Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1928Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1998San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is hit by a pitch and charges the mound, causing a bench-clearing brawl
1907Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
1973George Brett gets his 1st hit
1934Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces
1802Napoleon declared "Consul for Life"
1991Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1969Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
1834Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
1754Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC, (d. 1825)
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)
1978Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young (32) weds Pegi Morton
1904Novelist Hermann Hesse (27) weds Maria Bernoulli
1968Later President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (21) weds lawyer Jose Miguel Arroyo (22)
1882Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith
1859Horace Mann, American education advocate, dies at 63
1922Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (telephone), dies at 75
1876Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
1923warren harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
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