Today in History - History - June 14th

199210th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton

1944General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France

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.

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

1980Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32

1942Anne Frank begins her diary

1934Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

1946Nat King Cole records "The Christmas Song" for the first time

197545th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1956Actor Ted Cassidy (23) weds Margaret Helen

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

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

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

1981Novelist Danielle Steel (33) weds John Traina

1958Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela

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

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

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

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