ON THIS DAY

1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, who sell her to the English.

1785: In a letter to a friend, Benjamin Franklin reveals his invention of spectacles of two thicknesses, the first bi-focals.

1873: Canada’s Mounties: then called the North West Mounted Police: is established.

1883: Adelaide Zoo is established.

1934: US outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed in a police ambush in Louisiana.

2009: Former South Korean President Roh Moohyun, 62, leaps to his death amid a widening corruption scandal.

2017: A suicide bomber kills 22 people, including a number of children, and injures 116 at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena.

Joan Collins, English actress (1933-); John Newcombe, Australia tennis player (1944-); Jewel, American singer (1974-).