Today in History - History - July 5th

1987101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (7-6 6-2 7-5)

2009123rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick (5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14), winning a record 15th Grand Slam titles

1919Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times

197025th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young

197589th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)

1992Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic

1809-6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles

1989Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)

1968Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers

196882nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (6-3 6-4 6-2)

1911Georges Pompidou, Paris, President/Prime Minister of France (1962-74), (d. 1974)

1874Eugen Fischer, Bade Germany, Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), (d. 1967)

1996Dolly the Sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell born in Scotland

1801David Farragut, Campbell's Station, Tennessee, US Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!")

2003Actress Elizabeth Banks (29) weds sportswriter and producer Max Handelman (30) at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills

2003"Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (26) weds actress Heather Ann McComb (26) at Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, California

1920Foreign Minister of the German Reich Joachim von Ribbentrop (27) weds Anna Elisabeth Henkell

1980Actress Raquel Welch (39) weds producer André Weinfeld

1870Prime Minister of Canada John Thompson (24) weds Annie E. Affleck (25) in Portland, Maine

1911"Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince Edward Island, Canada

1826Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore dies at 44 of apoplexy

1979Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87