Today in 1934....

Back in the Day: US police kill Bonnie and Clyde

23/05 08:03 CET

23/05 08:03 CET

May 23, 1934. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot dead by Texas police after a                                                two-year crime spree together that left 13 people, including nine police officers dead.                                           Barrow had spent time in prison – where he had killed an inmate – by the time the pair                                              first met in 1930. Together, Bonnie and Clydeand theur gang robbed banks and shops                                             and also broke fellow gang members out of prsion. Texas policeman Frank Hamer was                                      specially assigned to tracking down the infamous outlaws, and he and his team shot                                                 and killed them in an ambush outside their hideout in Louisiana.                                                                                 Also on May 23: Henry VIII’s marriage to first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is declared                                                  null and void (1533); head of the Nazi SS, Hermann Himmler commits suicide in Allied                                     custody (1945); creation of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949); Northern Irish                                                voters approve the Good Friday peace agreement (1998)