Today is Wednesday, May 23rd, the 143rd day of 2001. There are 222 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 23rd, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. On this date: In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English. In 1533, the marriage of England's King Henry the Eighth to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void. In 1701, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder. In 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War One. In 1937, industrialist John D. Rockefeller died in Ormond Beach, Florida. In 1940, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, the Pied Pipers and featured soloist Frank Sinatra recorded "I'll Never Smile Again" in New York for RCA. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany. In 1960, Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. (Eichmann was tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.) In 1998, official returns showed two convincing "yes" votes for the Northern Ireland peace accord in British-linked Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Ten years ago: In a five-to-four vote, the US Supreme Court upheld regulations barring federally subsidized family planning clinics from discussing abortion with pregnant women, or from telling women where they could get abortions. Five years ago: The House approved, by a vote of 281-to-144, election-year legislation to raise the minimum wage by 90 cents an hour. One year ago: Two weeks before a US-Russia arms summit, presidential candidate George W. Bush said he would slash America's nuclear arsenal as part of a broad national security review that would call for a missile-defense system. Today's Birthdays: Bandleader Artie Shaw is 91. Actress Betty Garrett is 82. Pianist Alicia de Larrocha is 78. Bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman is 76. Singer Rosemary Clooney is 73. Actor Nigel Davenport is 73. Actress Barbara Barrie is 70. Actress Joan Collins is 68. Actor Charles Kimbrough is 65. Rhythm-and-blues singer General Johnson (Chairmen of the Board) is 58. Actress Lauren Chapin is 56. Country singer Judy Rodman is 50. Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler is 49. Actor-comedian Drew Carey is 43. Country singer Shelley West is 43. Actor Linden Ashby is 41. Actress-model Karen Duffy is 40. Rock musician Phil Selway (Radiohead) is 34. Singer Lorenzo is 29. Singer Maxwell is 28. Singer Jewel is 27. Actor Adam Wylie is 17. "He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward." -- Henry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman (1878-1969). (Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)