Today in History - History - October 4th

1980Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies

1854Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair

1897George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC

1991NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier

1959Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts

1961Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout

1981Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ

1918Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC

196410th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills

1962Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends

1880Damon Runyon, Manhattan, Kansas, journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work), (d. 1946)

1944Tony La Russa, Tampa Florida, MLB manager (Chicago, Oakland, St. Louis)

1941Anne Rice, New Orleans LA, author (Interview with a Vampire)

1923Charlton Heston, Ill, Manhattan, Kansas, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of Apes), (d. 2008)

1956Sherri Turner, Greenville South Carolina, LPGA golfer (1988 Mazda LPGA Champ)

1822Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th US president (1877-81)

1996Former undisputed boxing heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield (34) weds Janice Itson (34) at Glynn Wedding Chapel in nearby Fayetteville

1926Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (29) weds physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie (26) in Paris, France

1942Actor Gregory Peck (26) weds real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (31)

1925Jurist Earl Warren (34) weds Nina Elisabeth Palmquist Meyers

1539King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his 4th wife

190530th US President Calvin Coolidge (33) weds Grace Anna Goodhue (26) in Burlington, Vermont

1970Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27

1669Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter, dies at 63