Today in History - History - June 30th

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

1992Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.

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

1956Lenin's politics testament (1923) published in Moscow

1963Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open

1908Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0

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

1934"Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party

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

1943Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)

1901Willie Sutton, Brooklyn New York, American bank robber

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

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

1975Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)

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

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

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

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

2006American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces 98 Degrees boy band singer Nick Lachey (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years 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