1960 - Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. (Eichmann was tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.)
1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1533 - the marriage of England's King Henry the Eighth 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 United States Constitution.
1915 - Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War One.
1934 - bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1937 - industrialist John D. Rockefeller died in Ormond Beach, Florida.
1940 - Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, the Pied Pipers and featured soloist Frank Sinatra recorded "I'll Never Smile Again" in New York for RCA.
1945 - Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
1998 - official returns showed two convincing "yes" votes for the Northern Ireland peace accord in British-linked Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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