Today in History - History - June 14th

1944General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France

1989Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)

198127th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young

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

1934Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

1967Steve Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV

1822Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".

1797Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic

1965John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1958Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela

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

1956Actor Ted Cassidy (23) weds Margaret Helen

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

1981Novelist Danielle Steel (33) weds John Traina

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

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

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

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

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