Today in History - History - August 2nd

1998San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is hit by a pitch and charges the mound, causing a bench-clearing brawl

1865Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

1991Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges

1932Carl David Anderson discovers and photographs a positron (positive electron), the first known antiparticle

1981Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1999"The Sixth Sense", starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment, premieres

1928Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

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

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

1973George Brett gets his 1st hit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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