Today in History - History - June 21st

1977Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th PM

1942Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa

1987Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant

1982Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"

196565th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis

1975Elton John, Eagles & Beach Boys play Wembley

1986President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments

1672French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht

1978Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita" premiers in London

199735th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st

1902Howie Morenz, Mitchell Quebec, Canadian professional ice hockey player

1892Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)

1982Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, London, England, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana

1953Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)

1997"Bridget Jones' Diary" actor Colin Firth (36) weds Italian film producer Livia Giuggioli (27) in Tuscany, Italy

1970"The Doors" lead singer Jim Morrison (26) weds author Patricia Kennealy (24) in a celtic pagan hand fasting ceremony

1810US President Zachary Taylor (25) weds Margaret Smith near Louisville, Kentucky

1930"Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (19) weds sculptor Blair Gordon Newell

194037th US President Richard Nixon (27) weds Pat Ryan (28) at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California

1924Inventor Robert H. Goddard (41) weds secretary Esther Christine Kisk (23) at St. John's Episcopal Church in Worcester

1527Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57

1377Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies at 64