Today in History - History - February 2nd

1975Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational

1949Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident

1959Buddy Holly's last performance

19332 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament

1922James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)

1731George F Handel's opera "Poro," premieres in London

1913NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe

1986Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

1959Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers

1972Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London

1882James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake)

1947Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)

1895George Halas, Chicago Illinois, NFL pioneer (owner of the Chicago Bears)

1977Shakira [Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll], Barranquilla, Colombian pop singer ('Whenever Wherever', 'Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)')

1976Actress Gloria Swanson (76) weds writer William Dufty (60)

1870American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY

1997"American Idol" judge Paula Abdul (34) weds sportswear designer Brad Beckerman at The Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel

1957Actress Elizabeth Taylor (24) marries for the 3rd time to Producer Mike Todd (47)

1985NFL Footballer and felon OJ Simpson marries 2nd wife Nicole Brown (murdered 1994)

1936Physicist Emilio G. Segrè (31) weds jewish woman Elfriede Spiro at the Great Synagogue of Rome in Italy

1979Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols), OD's at 21

2014Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (Capote, Moneyball) dies at 46 of a suspected drug overdose