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May 25, 2007
Today in History: May 23rd
Trivia from: 94.7 Chicago's True Oldies Channel
1430 - Joan Of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
Books in the GSU Library collection about Joan of Arc:
Title: Jeanne d’Arc, by W. S. Scott.
Call Number: DC103 .S381974
1785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
Books in the GSU Library about Benjamin Franklin:
Title: Doctor Franklin’s medicine / Stanley Finger.
Call Number: R151 .F562006
1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
Books in the GSU Library about Fort Wagner:
Title: The storming of Fort Wagner; black valor in the Civil War.
Call Number: MAT-CTR. E513.554TH .W4
1934 - Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
Video in the GSU Library collection:
Title: Bonnie and Clyde [videorecording] / Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. and Tatira-Hiller Productions ; directed by Arthur Penn ; produced by Warren Beatty.
Find more books and videos at GSU.
Posted by d-nadler at May 25, 2007 11:03 AM