Today in History - History - June 19th

1960Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open

1922Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)

1973Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000

1978Ian Botham takes 8-34 v Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling

1900In the USA, the Republican Party nominate President William McKinley for re-election, but choose a new candidate for Vice-President: Theodore Roosevelt

1964Bob Dylan completes UK tour

1829Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1992"Batman Returns", starring Michael Keaton as Batman, Danny Devito as the Penguin, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, is released

1936German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis

1956Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films

1945Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician (Nobel)

1623Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)

1903Lou Gehrig [Henry Louis Gehrig], "Iron Horse", 1st baseman for NY Yankees (d. 1941)

1962Paula Julie Abdul, Van Nuys California, singer/choreographer (Straight Up)

1896Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, American divorcee and wife of Edward VIII (abdicated)

1861Jose Protacio Rizal, Calamba City Laguna, optician/author/nationalist (Noli Me Tángere, El Filibusterismo)

1566James Stuart, King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and James I of England and Ireland (1603-25)

1897Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Brooklyn New York, American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges)

1942Actress Marilyn Monroe (16) marries first husband James Dougherty (21), a policeman

1969Baseball manager Leo Durocher (63) weds socialite Lynne Walker Goldblatt (40) at the Ambassador West Hotel in Chicago

1843Philosopher Karl Marx (25) weds Jenny von Westphalen in Germany

1886US President William Taft (28) weds Helen Herron (25) in Cincinnati, Ohio

1965NBA forward Bob Pettit (32) weds Carole Crowell in Alexandria, Louisiana

1999Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (35) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle

1975Sam Giancana, American gangster, dies of multiple gunshot wounds at 67

1867Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro at 34

1993William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81

2013James Gandolfini, American actor, dies from a heart attack at 51