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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: [FOLKLORE FAMILY] Today in History - May 23rd
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:16:01 -0400


Today is Wednesday, May 23rd, the 143rd day of 2001.
There are 222 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:
On May 23rd, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to
death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

On this date:
In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the
English.

In 1533, the marriage of England's King Henry the Eighth to Catherine of
Aragon was declared null and void.

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

In 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States
Constitution.

In 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War One.

In 1937, industrialist John D. Rockefeller died in Ormond Beach, Florida.

In 1940, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, the Pied Pipers and featured
soloist Frank Sinatra recorded "I'll Never Smile Again" in New York for RCA.

In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned
in Luneburg, Germany.

In 1960, Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf
Eichmann in Argentina. (Eichmann was tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes
against humanity, and hanged in 1962.)

In 1998, official returns showed two convincing "yes" votes for the Northern
Ireland peace accord in British-linked Northern Ireland and the Republic of
Ireland.

Ten years ago: In a five-to-four vote, the US Supreme Court upheld
regulations barring federally subsidized family planning clinics from
discussing abortion with pregnant women, or from telling women where they
could get abortions.

Five years ago: The House approved, by a vote of 281-to-144, election-year
legislation to raise the minimum wage by 90 cents an hour.

One year ago: Two weeks before a US-Russia arms summit, presidential
candidate George W. Bush said he would slash America's nuclear arsenal as
part of a broad national security review that would call for a
missile-defense system.

Today's Birthdays:
Bandleader Artie Shaw is 91.
Actress Betty Garrett is 82.
Pianist Alicia de Larrocha is 78.
Bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman is 76.
Singer Rosemary Clooney is 73.
Actor Nigel Davenport is 73.
Actress Barbara Barrie is 70.
Actress Joan Collins is 68.
Actor Charles Kimbrough is 65.
Rhythm-and-blues singer General Johnson (Chairmen of the Board) is 58.
Actress Lauren Chapin is 56.
Country singer Judy Rodman is 50.
Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler is 49.
Actor-comedian Drew Carey is 43.
Country singer Shelley West is 43.
Actor Linden Ashby is 41.
Actress-model Karen Duffy is 40.
Rock musician Phil Selway (Radiohead) is 34.
Singer Lorenzo is 29. Singer Maxwell is 28.
Singer Jewel is 27.
Actor Adam Wylie is 17.



"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on;
he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
-- Henry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman (1878-1969).


(Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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