In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
In 1533, the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
In 1701, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder.
In 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1873, Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.
In 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they rode inside a stolen Ford Deluxe on a road in Bienville Parish, La.