Today in History - History - June 15th

1969Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic

1864Battle for Petersburg begins as General Ulysses S. Grant assaults Confederate line

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

1626King Charles I disbands English parliament

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

1928Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time

1968John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral

1775George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army

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

1963Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns

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

1908Sam Giancana, Chicago Illinois, American mafioso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2014Casey Kasem, creator of American Top 40 and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, dies from Lewy body dementia at 82