1430 ~ Joan of Arc captured and later sold to the English.

1533 ~ The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catharine of Aragon declared null and void.

1707 ~ Birthday of Carolus Linnaeus, Botanist.

1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, Engineer.

1900 ~ Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (awarded for heroism in the Battle of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War).

1921 ~ Birthday of James Blish, science fiction author.

1933 ~ Birthday of Joan Collins, Actress.

1934 ~ Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers.

1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion.

1995 ~ Official announcement of the Java programming language.

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