Tuesday, May 23, 2000
History today -- 12:23 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, who sell her to the English.
- 1701: Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.
- 1788: South Carolina ratified the US constitution (the 8th state to do so).
- 1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1934: Bank Robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush.
- 1937: John D. Rockefeller dies.
- 1945: Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
- 1960: Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
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