On this day in history

1430: Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the English.
1660: King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England.
1785: Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
1788: South Carolina becomes eighth state to ratify US constitution.
1867: Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri.
1873: First running of The Preakness: jockey G Barbee aboard Survivor wins.
1873: Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms (it didn't get the "Royal" until 1904).
1887: First transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC.
1900: Associated Press News Service forms in NY.
1901: Ottawa Mint Act receives royal assent.
1922: Walt Disney incorporates his first film company Laugh-O-Gram Films.
1939: Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland.
1941: Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title.
1944: British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy.
1948: Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive HRs.
1949: Federal Republic of Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones.
1969: The Who release rock opera "Tommy".
1984: "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" opens in the US.
1994: 47th Cannes Film Festival: "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino wins the Palme d'Or.
2016: Chinese archaeologists announce findings of earliest use of barley in China to make beer, Shaanxi province 3400-2900 BC.