Today in History - History - June 2nd

1875Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission

1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1935Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player

1992Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery

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

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

1896Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897

198531st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez

1627English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company

1863Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves

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

1972Wayne Brady, Columbus, Georgia, American actor and comedian (The Wayne Brady Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?)

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

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

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

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

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

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