Today in History - History - June 17th

1967Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed

1994OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)

2003Moneyball, a book about the 2003 Oakland Athletics baseball team and GM Billy Beane's sabermetric approach, inspired by Bill James, is published

1992Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns

1837Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1915The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations

1462vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.

1970Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera

1984John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada

200943rd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift & Brad Paisley wins

1943Barry Manilow, New York City, American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs)

1882Igor Stravinsky, Oranienbaum, Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS 05/06]

1945Tony Roche, Wagga Wagga Australia, tennis player and coach

1940George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate

1980Venus Williams, Lynwood California, tennis star

1881Tommy Burns, Hanover Ontario, Canadian boxer

1924Golfer Bobby Jones (22) weds high school sweetheart Mary Rice Malone (22) in Atlanta, Georgia

1923Chemist Linus Pauling (22) weds Ava Helen Miller

1872Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (31) weds childhood friend Fanny Bowditch Dixwell

1853Prime Minister of Canada Alexander Mackenzie (31) weds second wife Jane Sym

1983Singer and actor Glenn Frey (34) weds Janie Beggs

1977Senator Joseph biden of Delaware (34) weds Jill Jacobs (26) at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City

1962Actor Jack Nicholson (25) weds Sandra Knight (22) in Los Angeles

2008Ice hockey player star Martin Brodeur (36) weds Genevieve Nault at the Bavaro Princess Resort in the Dominican Republic

1997Actress and philanthropist Grace Hightower (57) weds actor Robert De Niro (68) at their Marbletown home

2006Producer Dick Wolf (59) weds fashion publicist Noelle Lippman

1947Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62

2012Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, dies at 47