Today in History - History - March 1st

1985Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center

1628Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.

1969NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires

1969Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium

1970Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

1932The 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is kidnapped from their home in East Amwell, New Jersey in what became known as the "Lindbergh kidnapping"

1896Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.

200317th Soul Train Music Awards: LL Cool J, Mariah Carey & Nelly win

1987Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1954In spring training, baseballer Ted Williams breaks his collarbone

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

1910Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)

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

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

1827Father of U.S. History George Bancroft (26) weds first wife Sarah Dwight

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

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

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

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