This Day In History
- 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.
- 1915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
- 1937 Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died in Ormond Beach, Fla.
- 1945 Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
- 1949 Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin lifted the Berlin Blockade.
- 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.
- 2002 Golfer Sam Snead died at age 89.
- 2003 Congress sent President Bush the third tax cut of his presidency -- a $330 billion package of rebates and lower rates for families and new breaks for businesses and investors.
- 1883 Douglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Ulman)
- 1928 Rosemary Clooney (singer)
- 1951 Anatoly Karpov (world chess champion: International Grandmaster)
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