1430: Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British.
1785: In a letter, Benjamin Franklin describes his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses.
1873: The North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is established as Canada's national police force.
1934: Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are shot to death in a police ambush in Gibsland, Louisiana.
1960: A tsunami resulting from Chilean earthquakes hits the Hawaiian port city of Hilo, killing 61 people. The wave heights in Hilo Bay reached 35 feet.
1994: Funeral services are held at Arlington National Cemetery for former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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Today's Birthdays:
Physician/astrologist Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)
Feminist writer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
First female U.S. lawyer Arabella Mansfield (1846-1911)
Actor Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)
Actor Herbert Marshall (1890-1966)
American singer and actress Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002)
Pioneer of electronic music Robert Moog (1934-2005)
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler 1952
TV comic Drew Carey 1958
Singer/songwriter Jewel 1974
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Something to Think About:
"Love is a beautician. It can create beauty, but also illusion. True love is natural beauty. Everylasting, and never fake." ~ Sarah Bianchi
