TODAY IN HISTORY

1934

Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

1945

Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide by biting into a cyanide capsule, while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany.

1967

Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, an action, which helped precipitate war between Israel and its Arab neighbors the following month.

1984

Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report saying there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers.