Today in History - History - June 12th

1975Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965

1957Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)

1922St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times

1442King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples

1931Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury

1987US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall

1673Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral

191630th US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Louise Raymond (6-0 6-1)

1942Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples

1990Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases

1952Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)

1924George H. W. Bush, Milton MA, 43 US Vice President (R, 1981-89) and 41st US President (R, 1989-93)

1970Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood (22) weds Jenny Boyd (23)

1997Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg (25) weds high school sweetheart Shante Taylor at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina Del Rey, California

2009Tennis ace Boris Becker (41) weds model Sharlely Kerssenberg in St Moritz, Switzerland

1999Actor and film director David Arquette (27) weds "Friends" actress Courteney Cox (34) at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California

1994Astronaut Neil Armstrong marries 2nd wife Carol Held Knight

1949Religious leader Jim Jones (18) weds nurse Marceline Baldwin

1927Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi (53) weds Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali

1733King of Prussia Frederick the Great (21) weds duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (18) at Schloss Salzdahlum in Wolfenbüttel, Germany

2012Henry Hill Jr., American mobster and FBI informant, dies from a heart condition at 69

2003Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)