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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
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