Today in History - History - June 1st

1862General Robert E. Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines

1836Charles Darwin returns to Capetown

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

1952Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament

1930Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours

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

1963Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya

1964Kenya becomes a republic and Jomo Kenyatta its President

1533Anne Boleyn crowned queen of England

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

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

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

1974Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)

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

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

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

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

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

1949Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005George Mikan, American basketball player, dies at 80