Drew Carey 1958 - Actor, game show host
- 1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English.
- 1618 - The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.
- 1785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
- 1922 - "Daylight Saving Time" was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.
- 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.
- 1998 - British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.
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