1945Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.
1934Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.
1934Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.
1928Rosemary Clooney, singer.
1920Helen O’Connell, big band vocalist.
1915Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1910Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.
1908John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.
1900Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.