Today in History - History - June 4th

198858th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (6-0 6-0)

19445th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies

1940Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"

1745Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons

1956Speech by Khrushchev criticising Stalin made public

1988Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee

1967Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational

1913Suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby

1647English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War

198353rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62)

1975Russell Brand, British comedian and television personality

1975Angelina Jolie, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Girl, Interrupted, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider)

1960"Last Tango In Paris" actor Marlon Brando (36) weds Mexican-American actress Movita Castaneda (42)

1915Canadian diplomat Vincent Massey (28) weds Alice Parkin

1951Actress Janet Leigh (23) weds actor Tony Curtis (26) in Greenwich, Connecticut

1940Radio broadcaster Paul Harvey (21) weds radio producer Lynne Cooper

1924Physician Frederick Banting (32) weds Marion Robertson

1978Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams (26) weds first wife Valerie Velardi

1978Broadcaster Howard Stern (24) marries Alison Berns at Temple Ohabei Shalom, Brookline Massachusetts.

1913Author A.A. Milne (31) weds Dorothy Daphne de Selincourt

1958Blues musician B.B. King (32) weds his second wife Sue Hall

2000"Titanic" producer-director James Cameron (45) weds actress Suzy Amis (38) in Malibu, California

1973Arna Bontemps, American poet (Harlem Renaissance), dies of heart attack at 72 in Nashville

1798Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer/writer/librarian and womanizer, dies at 73