Today in History - History - June 14th

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

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

1989Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams

1942Anne Frank begins her diary

1797Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic

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

1928Republican National Convention, meeting in KC, nominates Herbert Hoover for President

1913The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by Gandhi

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

1958Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela

1981Novelist Danielle Steel (33) weds John Traina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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