Today in History - History - June 15th

1924J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI

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

1877Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy

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

1626King Charles I disbands English parliament

1969Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic

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

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

1997British model Naomi Campbell hospitalized due to drug overdose

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

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

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

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

1908Sam Giancana, Chicago Illinois, American mafioso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1996Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78