Today in History - History - June 20th

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

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

1840Samuel Morse patents his telegraph

1974"Chinatown", starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, is released

1967Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services

1969Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France

1982Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington

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

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

1867US President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1998Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (55) weds Elizabeth Berrios

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

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