Today in History - History - March 1st

1969NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires

1972Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points

1936The Hoover Dam is completed.

1985Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center

1633Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.

1970Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

1953Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.

1945FDR announces success of Yalta Conference

1987Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1978Charlie Chaplin's coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery

1994Justin Bieber, London Ontario, Canadian pop singer (Baby, One Time)

1978Jensen Ackles, American actor (Days of our Lives)

1810Frederic Chopin, Zelazowa Wola, (baptismal records 22nd Feb) Polish/French pianist/composer (Concert in F Minor)

1926Pete Rozelle, [Alvin Rozelle] South Gate California, American NFL commissioner (1960-89)

1968Singer-songwriter and actress June Carter (38) weds singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (36) at a church in Franklin, Kentucky

1947Rocket engineer Werner von Braun (34) weds Maria Luise von Quistorp in Landshut, Germany

2003"The Silence of the Lambs" actor Anthony Hopkins (65) weds actress-producer Stella Arroyave (47) in Malibu, California

1968Country singer June Carter Cash (38) weds music icon Johnny Cash (36) in Franklin, Kentucky

1950Actress Ingrid Bergman (34) divorces dentist Petter Aron Lindström after 12 years of marriage

1989"Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5 years of marriage

1984Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69

1792Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)