Today in History - History - June 30th

1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

1994Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson

1950US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops

1984Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years

192933rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY

1992South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar

1930Don Bradman scores 254 for Australia at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours

1914Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

1995Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits

1520Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés take gold from Aztecs

1975Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)

1966"Iron" Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)

1901Willie Sutton, Brooklyn New York, American bank robber

1985Michael Phelps, Baltimore, Maryland, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals)

1973Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark (34) weds lawyer Maureen McTeer (21)

2008Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John (59) weds natural-health businessman John Easterling (56) in Florida's Jupiter Island

1831Soldier and Future Confederate General Robert E. Lee (24) marries Mary Curtis (22) at Arlington House, Arlington Virginia

2012Actor Alec Baldwin (54) weds Hilaria Thomas at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City

2010"Scream 4" actress Neve Campbell (37) divorces actor John Light (36) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

1992Actress Natasha Richardson (29) divorces producer Robert Fox (39) after a year of marriage

1520Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned by his own people

1919John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 76