Today in History - History - June 1st

1996Woody Harrelson is arrested in Lee County, Kentucky, after he symbolically planted four hemp seeds to challenge the state law which did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana

1533Anne Boleyn crowned queen of England

1982Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year

1980Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship

197521st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth

1985"Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12

1964Kenya becomes a republic and Jomo Kenyatta its President

1925Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)

1918Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden

1980Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif

1937Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tennessee, Academy award winning actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)

1801Brigham Young, Whitingham Vermont, American religious leader (Mormon church)

1961Paul Coffey, Weston Ontario, NHL forward (Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings)

1974Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)

1973Heidi Klum, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, German supermodel

1926Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress (Some Like It Hot)

1972Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (30) weds second wife Carole Hoff

1963Actor Rod Taylor (33) weds model Mary Hilem (25) at Westwood Community Methodist Church in Hollywood

1949Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time

1985Country singer Merle Haggard (48) weds fourth wife Debbie Parret

1997Grammy Award-winning singer Kenny Rogers (59) weds Wanda Miller (31) at his ranch in Athens, Georgia

1941Actress Gene Tierney (20) weds fashion designer Oleg Cassini (28)

2013Singer Diana DeGarmo (26) weds singer Ace Young (33) at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard hotel in Los Angeles

1933Charlie Chaplin (44) weds Paulette Goddard (22)

1889Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (21) weds socialite Catherine Tobin

1896Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (41) marries Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (41)in Covent Garden, London.

1968Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87

2005George Mikan, American basketball player, dies at 80

1952John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92

1971Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78

1872James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76

1965Curly Lambeau, first coach of the Green Bay Packers, dies of a heart attack at 67