Today in History - History - June 20th

1969Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France

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

198383rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA

1994OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman

199999th US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 279 at Pinehurst CC

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

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

1970British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher in the Cabinet)

1982Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)

1986Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon

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

1949Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)

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

1998Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (55) weds Elizabeth Berrios

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

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

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

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

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

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