1430
Joan of Arc is taken captive by Burgundian forces amid the Hundred Years’ War.
1498
Italian Dominican reformer Girolamo Savonarola is executed in Florence.
1618
The Second Defenestration of Prague triggers the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War.
1701
Pirate captain William Kidd is executed by hanging in London.
1819
Birth of Clara Schumann, acclaimed pianist and composer of the Romantic era.
1873
Formation of the North-West Mounted Police in Canada, later known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1934
Outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are killed in a police ambush in Louisiana, USA.
1945
Heinrich Himmler, a leading figure of Nazi Germany, is captured by British forces.
1951
Tibet is incorporated into the People’s Republic of China under the Seventeen Point Agreement.
1995
Sun Microsystems formally announces the Java programming language.
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