Today in History - History - August 25th

1904james j jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

194628th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore

1968Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship

1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf

1986A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run

199696th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

1996Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic

1970Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)

1924Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn

1932Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight

1530Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)

1958Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)

1928Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna

1749British admiral Samuel Hood (24) weds Susannah Linzee in Portsmouth, England

1941Jazz musician Billie Holiday (26) weds trombonist Jimmy Monroe

2000"Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss (39) in Los Angeles

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

1776David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65

1900Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55

1984Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59

2012Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82

1908Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55

1688Henry Morgan, English pirate