On this day …
May 23, 2017
- In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured while leading an army at the Siege of Compiegne.
- In 1533, the marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
- In 1701, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.
- In 1873, the Canadian Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- In 1934, infamous American bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by police in Bienville Parish, La.
- In 1939, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sank off the coast of New Hampshire, killing 26.
- In 1945, Nazi Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while in Allied custody.
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