Today in History - History - August 2nd

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