Today in History - History - July 1st

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

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

1970Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)

1956Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show

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

1973Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic

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

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

1798Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt

1948Bradman scores 128 Australia v Surrey, 141 mins, 15 fours

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)

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)

1961Business magnate Martha Stewart (19) weds Andrew Stewart

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

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

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

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.

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

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