This Day in History......(Super-sized)
1430: Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and subsequently sold 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 became the 8th state in United States.
1830: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began the first passenger service in the United States.
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.
1873: The North West Mounted Police force was formed in Canada. It would later be known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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.
1911: The New York Public Library, at the time the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated by President Taft in New York City after 16 years of construction.
1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1934: Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.
1945: Heinrich Himmler, head of Adolf Hitler's Gestapo, committed suicide while in prison.
1949: The German Federal Republic came into existence.
1960: Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1997: Moderate Mohammad Khatami was elected president of Iran.
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