Today in History - History - June 15th

1965Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"

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

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

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

1948Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win test match anyway

1924J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI

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

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

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

1626King Charles I disbands English parliament

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

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

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

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

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

1908Sam Giancana, Chicago Illinois, American mafioso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1996Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78