Today in History - History - July 1st

1960Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba

1975Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1948Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher

1873Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia one of the first African Americans enters West Point Military Academy

1956Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show

1889Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti

195569th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (6-3 7-5 6-1)

1969John Lennon & Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after a car crash

197784th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)

1973Tom Bradley becomes the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, the first (and only) African-American to hold that position

1961Carl Lewis [Frederick], Birmingham Alabama, sprinter and long jumper (Oly-9 gold-84-96)

1977Liv Tyler, New York City, American actress and daughter of Aerosmith's frontman, Steven Tyler (Stealing Beauty)

1906Estée Lauder, New York, NY, CEO (Estée Lauder cosmetics) (d. 2004)

1961Diana Spencer, Sandringham England, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)

1961Business magnate Martha Stewart (19) weds Andrew Stewart

1902British admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe (42) weds Gwendoline Cayzer at Holy Trinity in London

1900Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (36) weds countess Sophie Chotek (32) in Reichstadt, Bohemia

2013Canadian singer Avril Lavigne (28) weds Canadian singer Chad Kroeger (38) at the Château de La Napoule, a reconstructed medieval castle on the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France.

1990Country singer-songwriter Hank Williams Jr (41) weds model Mary Jane Thomas at a Congregational church near his ranch in Missoula, Montana

1998Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand (57) weds actor James Brolin (58) in Malibu

2011Journalist and executive producer Maria Shriver (55) divorces Hollywood action film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger (63) due to irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage

2011Actor Ryan Reynolds (34) divorces actress Scarlett Johansson (26) due to irreconcilable differences after two years of marriage

1860Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59

2004Marlon Brando, actor ("The Godfather", "A Street Cart Named Desire" and "On the Water Front") dies at 80