Today in History - History - June 1st

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

198632nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley

1980Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif

1836Charles Darwin returns to Capetown

1670English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV sign secret anti-Dutch treaty

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

1963Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya

1975California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1974Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)

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

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

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

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

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

1949Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time

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

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

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

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

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

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

2005George Mikan, American basketball player, dies at 80

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

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