Today in History - History - August 23rd

406Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians

1988Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem

1970Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game

1933Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following yet another hunger strike

193044th US Women's Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (6-1 6-4)

192640th US Women's Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (4-6 6-4 9-7)

1942British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo

1939Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: Eastern Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin

1541French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

1942Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief

1970River Phoenix, Madras Oregon, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)

1934Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie)

1946Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)

1930Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)

1769Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], Montbéliard, France, French naturalist and zoologist

1978Kobe Bryant, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NBA guard (LA Lakers)

1978Actress Kate Jackson (29) weds actor Andrew Stevens (23) in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts

1975Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England

2014Actress Angelina Jolie (39) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (50) in Correns, France

1876Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler

1962Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell

2003"The Hours" actress Julianne Moore (42) weds "The Myth of Fingerprints" director Bart Freundlich (33) in New York

2006Ed Warren, American paranormal investigator, dies at 79

1305William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded at Smithfield London