Today in History - History - July 13th

195813th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright

1974103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham

1979Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th

1993All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins)

1960US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate

1657Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert

1984Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert

1870King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck

1987Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials

1979George Harrison releases "Faster"

100 BCJulius Caesar, Rome, Roman military and political leader, (d. 44 BC), (or July 12)

1821Nathan Bedford Forrest, Chapel Hill Tennessee, slave trader/Confed lt-gen/KKK Grand Wizard, (d. 1877)

1940Patrick Stewart, Mirfield England, actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation, Charles Xavier-X-men)

1942Harrison Ford, Chicago Illinois, actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic)

1914British poet and novelist D. H. Lawrence (28) weds Frieda Weekley (34) after obtaining Frieda's divorce from her 1st husband

1925Film producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions Walt Disney (23) weds Lillian Bounds (26) at Lewiston's Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Lewiston, Idaho

2013Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician, dies of heroin and alcohol overdose at 31

1934Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, dies at 87