Today in History - History - May 23rd

1430Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the English

1939Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland

1911NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft

1965Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1943Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus

1576Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory

1701Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore.

1962Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)

1922Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films

1992President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees

1974Jewel Kilcher, Payson, Utah, American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You)

1974Ken Jennings, American game show contestant

1908John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)

1958Drew Carey, Cleveland, Ohio, American actor & comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show)

1707Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and the Father of Taxonomy (d. 1778)

1052King Philip I of France (d. 1108)

1942Comic book artist Jack Kirby (24) weds Roz Goldstein

1953John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy (31) weds activist and attorney Sargent Shriver at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

1934First wife Marguerite Van Kessel divorces NFL player Curly Lambeau (36) after 14 years of marriage

1533King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon's marriage declared null & void by authority English clergy not the Pope

2002Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)

1937John D Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, dies at 97

1701William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock

1934Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush at 23