1430, Joan Of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who later sold her to the English.
1934, nylon was first produced by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, a research chemist at Du Pont laboratories.
1934, Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush as they are driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1928, Singer-actress Rosemary Clooney is born. She dies in June 2002 at age 74.
1960, Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. He was later tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.
1962, Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees sets a major-league baseball record by hitting two home runs in one inning.
1991, by a 5-to-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld regulations barring federally subsidized family planning clinics from discussing abortion with pregnant women or telling them where they could get an abortion.
1994, funeral services were held at Arlington National Cemetery for former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
1995, a man with an unloaded handgun climbed over a fence and ran towards the White House. He was shot and wounded by the Secret Service.
1997, The Lost World: Jurassic Park opens in theatres, taking in over $90 million in its first weekend of release.