On this date in...

1954...The Blonde Bombshell marries the Bronx Bomber, as film star Marilyn Monroe and Yankee slugger Joe Dimaggio tie the knot in San Francisco.

1957...New York native Humphrey Bogart dies of cancer at age 57.

1993...Late night king David Letterman announces he's leaving NBC for CBS – and exactly seven years later he undergoes successful quintuple-bypass surgery.