Today in History - History - May 23rd

1965Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1576Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory

1941Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

1971Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale

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

1660King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England

2013Patrick Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his former team where he won two Stanley Cups

1982Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders a saint

2000Eminem releases 3rd studio album 'The Marshall Mathers LP', is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy - Best Rap Album 2001)

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

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

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

1911Betty Nuthall, Surbiton England, tennis player (1930 U.S. Open champion)

1052King Philip I of France (d. 1108)

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

1974Ken Jennings, American game show contestant

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

1992Actress Anjelica Huston (40) weds sculptor Robert Graham (54)

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

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

2002Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)

1934Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush

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