Today in History - History - July 1st

196074th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Rod Laver (6-4 3-6 9-7 7-5)

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

1970Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)

1941Joe DiMaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak

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

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

19451st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers

1997Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield

1836US President Andrew Jackson announces to Congress bequest by James Smithson of 100,000 gold sovereigns to found institution in Washington.

1968John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)

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

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

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)

1981NFL quarterback Joe Montana (25) weds second wife Cathleen Castillo

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

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

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

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.

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

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

1896Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85

1860Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59