Today in History - History - June 20th

1893Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass

193065th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake

1982Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington

1956At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)

1950Joe DiMaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2

1969Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France

1960Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1940Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1967Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services

196012th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt win

1952John Goodman, St Louis Mo, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe)

1967Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away)

1894Basketball inventor James Naismith (32) weds Maude Evelyn Sherman (23) in Springfield, Massachusetts

1929Author William Faulkner (31) weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church outside Oxford, Mississippi

1998Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (55) weds Elizabeth Berrios

1938"Star Wars" actor Alec Guinness (24) weds actress Merula Sylvia Salaman (23)

1962Singer Jane Froman (54) weds college friend Rowland Smith

1966Tennis champ Rod Laver (27) weds Mary Benson at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church in San Rafael, California

2005Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, dies at 81

1947Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal