Today in History - History - June 14th

1969Oakland As' Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7

1974Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings

1645Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire "New Model Army" under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beat royalists forces of English King Charles I

1944General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France

1953Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn

1807Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

1933Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games

2000Greg Maddux makes his 387th putout, breaking Jack Morris' career record

1934Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

1797Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic

1928Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Rosario, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician (Cuban Revolution)

1946Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)

1811Harriet Beecher Stowe, Litchfield Connecticut, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

1969Steffi Graf, Mannheim West Germany, tennis player (22 Grand Slam singles titles)

1958Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela

1904Ragtime composer Scott Joplin (35) weds Freddie Alexander (19) in Arkansas

1871Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (40) weds Julie Vellay in London

1956Actor Ted Cassidy (23) weds Margaret Helen

1981Novelist Danielle Steel (33) weds John Traina

1966Musician Louis Jordan (58) weds singer and dancer Martha Weaver

1984MLB baseball player Ernie Banks (53) weds Marjorie Wardlawholm

1999Rapper Eminem marries Kimberly Anne Scott for the 1st time

1801Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London at 60

1968Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66

1986Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86

1825Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect, dies at 70