Today in History - History - June 2nd

198531st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez

2004Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

1994Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"

1875Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission

1959Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", SF

1863Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves

1925NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak

1917Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross

196232nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)

1862Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virgin during US Civil War

1941Charlie Watts, London England, drummer (Rolling Stones)

1740Marquis de Sade, Paris, French philosopher and writer (Justine). The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name.

1951"The Thin Man" actress Myrna Loy (45) weds UNESCO delegate Howland H. Sargeant

188622nd and 24th US President Grover Cleveland (49) weds Frances Folsom (21) in the Blue Room at the White House

1989Actor James Woods (42) weds horse trainer Sarah Owen (26) in Beverly Hills, California

1945Athlete Jim Thorpe (57) weds Patricia Askew

2012Actress Drew Barrymore (37) weds writer Will Kopelman in Montecito, California

1919Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (40) weds his cousin Elsa Lowenthal (43)

1927Lizzie Borden, American, acquitted of murder, dies at 68

1941Lou Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of ALS in Riverdale NY at 37