Today in History - History - June 12th

1990Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list

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

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

1981Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title

1950Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game

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

1966Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational

1942Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)

1980Ronald Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests

198329th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan

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

1929Anne Frank, Frankfurt Germany, Dutch Jewish Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank)

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

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

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

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

1994Astronaut Neil Armstrong marries 2nd wife Carol Held Knight

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

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

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

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

2003Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)