Today in History - History - June 7th

1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament

1933George Balanchine/Kurt Weills "7 Deadly Sins" premiers in Paris

1936Charles "Lucky" Luciano is convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution

1944Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler

1924George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit

1654Louis XIV crowned King of France

1941Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead

1969"Johnny Cash Show" debuts on ABC-TV

1864Abraham Lincoln renominated for US President by Republican Party

1987Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship

1929John Turner, Richmond England, (L) 17th Canadian PM (1984)

1981Anna Kournikova, Moscow, Russian tennis player

1988Michael Cera, Brampton, Ontario, Canadian actor (Arrested Development, Superbad)

1940Tom Jones [Sir Thomas John Woodward], Pontypridd, Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat)

2014Playwright Tom Stoppard (76) weds brewery heiress Sabrina Guinness on an intimate register office ceremony in East Dorset, England

1974Actor Richard Harris (43) weds actress Ann Turkel (27)

1925Three Stooges leader Moe Howard (28) weds Helen Schonberger

1980Actor Mel Gibson (24) weds Robyn Moore (24) in Forestville, New South Wales

1967Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73

1980Henry Miller, American artist/author, dies at 88