TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English.

1533 - Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.

1618 - The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.

1701 - In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy.

1837 - Streets and squares in Adelaide, capital of South Australia, are first named.

1873 - Canada’s North West Mounted Police force was established. The organisation’s name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.

1915 - During World War I, Italy joined the Allies as they declared war on Austria-Hungary.

1926 - The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital.

1930 - Extensive aerial surveying and mapping of the Australian outback begins.

1945 - In Luneburg Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.

1949 - The Republic of West Germany was established.

1960 - Television finally comes to Tasmania with the launch of TVT-6.

1960 - Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1981 - In Barcelona, Spain, gunmen seized control of the Central Bank and took 200 hostages.

1998 - British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.