Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1430

Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.

1533

The marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.

1701

Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder.

1788

South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U. S. Constitution.

1873

Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.

1895

The New York Public Library had its origins with an agreement combining the city's existing Astor and Lenox libraries.

1915

Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.

1934

Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La.

1945

Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.

1960

Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1992

The United States and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Lisbon, Portugal, to implement the START missile reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution.

1997

Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.

1998

Official returns showed two convincing ''yes'' votes for the Northern Ireland peace accord: a surprisingly strong 71.1 percent in British-linked Northern Ireland, and 94.4 percent in the Republic of Ireland.

1937

Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died in Ormond Beach, Fla.