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Today in History
May 23

1430   Burgundians capture Joan of Arc and sell her to the English.
1533   Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1618   The Thirty Years War begins.
1701   Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames.
1785   Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
1788   South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1861   Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia.
1862   Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.
1864   Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.
1900   Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1901   American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1915   Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1934   Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.
1945   Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.
1949   The Federal Republic of West Germany is proclaimed.
1960   Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

Born on May 23
1707   Carolus Linnaeus [Carl von Linné], Swedish botanist.
1734   Friedrich Anton Mesmer, physician and hypnotist.
1810   Margaret Fuller, writer and critic.
1820   James Buchanan Eads, engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis
1875   Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president and chairman of the board for General Motors.
1891   Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (The Dwarf, Barabbas).
1908   John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.
1910   Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.
1920   Helen O’Connell, big band vocalist.
1928   Rosemary Clooney, singer.
1934   Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.
1947   Jane Kenyon, poet (Let Evening Come, Otherwise).

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