Today in History - History - July 1st

1932NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago

1970Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)

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

1948Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher

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

1973Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic

1960Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba

70Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem

1858The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1961Business magnate Martha Stewart (19) weds Andrew Stewart

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

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

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

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