Today in History - History - August 2nd

1981Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1802Napoleon declared "Consul for Life"

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

1987chris johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am

1928Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

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

1994NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

1904Novelist Hermann Hesse (27) weds Maria Bernoulli

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