Today in History - History - June 15th

1940France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris during WWII

1965Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"

197545th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64)

1094Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren

1864Robert E. Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery

1862Gen Jeb Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"

198686th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY

1997British model Naomi Campbell hospitalized due to drug overdose

1985Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1963Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns

1923Erroll Garner, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, American jazz pianist (Misty)

1969Ice Cube, rap singer/actor (Boyz in the Hood, Anaconda)

1969Cedric Pioline, Neuilly France, tennis star (1996 Coopenhagen)

1973Neil Patrick Harris, Albuquerque NM, actor (Doogie Howser MD)

1908Sam Giancana, Chicago Illinois, American mafioso

1964Courteney Cox, Birmingham, Alabama, American actress (Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends)

1953Sci-Fi author Arthur C. Clarke (35) weds Marilyn Torgenson in New York

1777First American flag seamstress Betsy Ross (25) weds mariner Joseph Ashburn

2010Film actor and producer Harrison Ford (67) weds actress and Golden Globe Award winner Calista Flockhart (45) in Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002Actor Charlie Sheen (36) weds actress Denise Richards (31) under a rose arch dotted by over 1000 blooms in Brentwood, California

1989Singer-songwriter Courtney Love (24) divorces vocalist James Moreland only 4 months after getting married

2011Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley (45) divorces businessman Arun Nayar due to husband's unreasonable behavior

1996Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78

1849James Knox Polk, 11th US President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville Tenn at 53