Today in History - History - July 1st

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

1889Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti

1948Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher

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

1920Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0

1867The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister

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

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

1973Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

1860Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59