Today in History - History - August 22nd

1921J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI

1976Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic

1945Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

1927Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers

1990President Bush calls up military reserves

1973Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs

1962Failed assassination on French president Charles de Gaulle

1956Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender)

1994DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman

1987Madonna's "Who's That Girl" single goes #1

1941Bill Parcells, Englewood New Jersey, NFL coach (NY Giants, NY Jets, NE Patriots)

1893Dorothy Parker, NJ, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967)

1904Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader (1976-1983)

1862Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), (d. 1918)

1909Mel Hein, Redding California, NFL center (NY Giants)

1908Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chanteloup, France, photographer famous for 'The Decisive Moment' (d. 2004)

1964Mats Wilander, Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (1988-US, Aust, French)

1902Leni Riefenstahl, [Helene Bertha Amalie], Germany, film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland)

1925Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson (28) weds teacher Maryon Elspeth Moody (23)

2003Film director Leni Riefenstahl (101) weds cinematographer Horst Kettner (59)

2009Actress and model Milla Jovovich (36) weds film director Paul W. S. Anderson (47) in Beverly Hills, California

1931FBI agent Melvin Purvis (27) weds childhood sweetheart Marie Rosanne Willcox at St. John's Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina

1848Soldier and later US President Ulysses Grant (26) marries Julia Dent

1944Writer Jack Kerouac (22) weds author Edie Kerouac Parker

408Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), executed at 48

1922Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush