Today in History - History - March 2nd

197416th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins

1927Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)

1936Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes

1989Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial

1962Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game

1989NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez

1946Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam

1903Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC

1977Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award

1962JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing

1977Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)

1931Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)

1904Dr. Seuss, [Theodor Geisel], Springfield, Massachusetts, children's author (Horton Hears a Who!)

1917Desi Arnaz, Santiago Cuba, actor (I Love Lucy)

1984Tennis player Yannick Noah (23) weds beauty queen Cecilia Rodhe (22) in Cameroon

1936Film director D. W. Griffith (61) weds actress Evelyn Baldwin (26)

1920Actress Mary Pickford (27) divorces actor Owen Moore (33) after 9 years of marriage

1976Second wife Carole Hoff divorces serial killer John Wayne Gacy (33) after 3 years of marriage

1930David Herbert Lawrence (DH), English poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44

1791John Wesley, English co-founder of Methodism dies at 87 (b. 1703)