Today in History - History - May 23rd

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

1948Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs

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

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

1576Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory

1965Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1862Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia

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

1867Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)

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

1052King Philip I of France (d. 1108)

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

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

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

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

1974Ken Jennings, American game show contestant

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

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

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

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

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

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

2002Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)

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