Today, May 23 in 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. 1785 Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals. 1827 The first nursery school in the U.S. was established in New York City. 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization's name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920. 1879 The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University. 1900 Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner. 1901 American forces captured Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo. 1908 Part of the Great White Fleet arrived in Puget Sound, WA. 1915 During World War I, Italy switched and joined the Allies as they appeared to be winning. 1926 The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital. 1934 In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe. 1938 "LIFE" magazine's cover pictured Errol Flynn as a glamour boy. 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 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. 1985 Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union. 1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished. 1998 British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord. 1999 In Kansas City, MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old. 1999 Gerry Bloch, at age 81, became the oldest climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He broke his own record that he set in 1986 when he was 68 years old. 2013 Google acquired Makani Power for use for its Project Wing. 2018 Do smiled.