ON THIS DAY

1430:

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

In a letter to a friend, Benjamin Franklin reveals his invention of spectacles of two thicknesses, the first bifocals.

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

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

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

Australians awake to news a suicide bomber has killed 22 people, including a number of children, and injured 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-).

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