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1968Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
1985Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
1924Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1948Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
1950Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
1987Madonna sings in Rotterdam
201330th MTV Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars wins
1970Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
1963Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
1930Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
1958Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
2000"Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss (39) in Los Angeles
1870German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland
1941Jazz musician Billie Holiday (26) weds trombonist Jimmy Monroe
1928Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna
1955"Dracula" actor Bela Lugosi (72) weds Hope Lininger (36)
1962Retired general Colin Powell (25) weds audiologist Alma Johnson (24) at the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama
1900Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55
2012Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82
1908Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55
1688Henry Morgan, English pirate
1984Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59
1776David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65
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