Today in History - History - August 23rd

1970Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game

1993Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game

1942British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo

406Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians

1981Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf

193044th US Women's Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (6-1 6-4)

1541French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

1972Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers

1954President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily

1305William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1970River Phoenix, Madras Oregon, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)

1930Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)

1934Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie)

1978Kobe Bryant, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NBA guard (LA Lakers)

1769Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], Montbéliard, France, French naturalist and zoologist

1946Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)

1978Actress Kate Jackson (29) weds actor Andrew Stevens (23) in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts

2003"The Hours" actress Julianne Moore (42) weds "The Myth of Fingerprints" director Bart Freundlich (33) in New York

1962Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell

1876Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler

1975Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England

2014Actress Angelina Jolie (39) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (50) in Correns, France

1926Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31

2006Ed Warren, American paranormal investigator, dies at 79