Today in History - History - June 1st

1843Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist

1215Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.

1958Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France

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

198632nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley

1963Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya

1973Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"

1815Napoleon Bonaparte swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.

197521st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth

1973George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold

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

1974Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1868James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77

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

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