Today in History - History - September 14th

81Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.

1987Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken

1923Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1924Walter Johnson elected AL MVP

1987107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)

1964Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House

1954Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record

2007Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.

1812Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)

1834Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile

1929John Gutfreund, American investment banker and former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc (King of Wall Street)

1947Sam Neill, Northern Ireland, actor (Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano)

1849Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)

1879Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent

1983Amy Winehouse, Southgate, London, singer ("Stronger Than Me, Rehab), (d. 2011)

1769Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, German naturalist and explorer (Kosmos), (d. 1859)

1886Neurologist Sigmund Freud (30) weds Martha Bernays (25) in Hamburg, Germany

2002No Doubt lead vocalist Gwen Stefani (42) weds lead singer and rhythm guitarist "Bush" Gavin Rossdale (46) at St. Paul's Church in London, England

2008Actor George Takei (68) weds Brad Altman at Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles

1970Singer Stevie Wonder (20) marries Rita Wright [Syreeta] (24)

1954Comedians Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara marry

1838Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York

1835American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1974Singer-composer Quincy Jones Jr (41) weds actress Peggy Lipton (28) in Los Angeles, California

1984Film director John Carpenter (36) divorces actress Adrienne Barbeau (39) after 5 years of marriage

1962Actress Janet Leigh (35) divorces actor Tony Curtis (37) after after 10 years of marriage

1852Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) dies at 83

1982Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52

1901Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz

1851James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61