Today in History - History - June 14th

199210th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton

1944General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France

1934Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

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

1967Steve Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV

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

1861Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of General George McClellan's advance

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

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

1797Napoleon forms Ligurian Republic

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

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

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

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

1981Novelist Danielle Steel (33) weds John Traina

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

1956Actor Ted Cassidy (23) weds Margaret Helen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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