Today in History - History - May 13th

1962Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open

1996OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict

19131st four-engined aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky, Russia)

1977Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY

1981Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, Vatican City

1989Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game

1958Stan Musial is 8th to get 3,000 hits

1955Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463'

2014Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, is discovered north off the coast of Haiti

1991"Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale

1950Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)

1937Roch Carrier, Sainte-Justine Quebec, Canadian novelist (The Hockey Sweater)

1961Dennis Rodman, Trenton, New Jersey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)

1986Robert Pattinson, London, English actor (Cedric Diggory-Harry Potter, Edward Cullen-Twilight)

1931Jim Jones, Randolph County Indiana, American Leader of Peoples Temple cult (Jonestown Massacre)

1914Joe Louis, Lafayette Alabama, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)

1922"Latin Lover" silent actor Rudolph Valentino (27) weds film costume and set designer Natacha Rambova (25) in Mexicali, Mexico

2003Former NBA star Dennis Rodman (42) weds Michelle Moyer on a small civil ceremony in Newport Beach, California

1930Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies at 68

1974Denny Shute, American golfer, dies at 69

1832Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)

1884Cyrus Hall McCormick, American inventor (mechanical reaper), dies at 75