Volume 13 , Issue 21

This Day In History (May 23)

On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La. "Shreveport, La., May 23 -- Clyde Barrow, notorious Texas "bad man" and murderer, and his cigar-smoking, quick-shooting woman accomplice, Bonnie Parker, were ambushed and shot to death today in an encounter with Texas Rangers and Sheriff's deputies." Go to article.

On May 23, 1875, Alfred Sloan, the American philanthropist who headed General Motors for more than a quarter of a century, was born. Following his death on Feb. 17, 1966, his Obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Day (May 23):

• 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 being 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 at age 97.
• 1945 - Nazi official and SS chief Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
• 1949 - The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was established.
• 1960 - Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
• 1997 - Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.
• 2003 - Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts - the third of his presidency.

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