TODAY IS TUESDAY, MAY 23, THE 143RD DAY OF 2006. THERE ARE 222 DAYS LEFT IN THE YEAR. ON THIS DATE IN 1934, BANK ROBBERS BONNIE PARKER AND CLYDE BARROW ARE SHOT TO DEATH IN A POLICE AMBUSH IN

Today is Tuesday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2006. There are 222 days left in the year. On this date in 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.
In 1533, the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void. In 1701, Capt. William Kidd is hanged in London after he is convicted of piracy and murder. In 1788, South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1906, Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen dies in Christiania, Norway, at age 78. In 1937, industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies in Ormond Beach, Fla. In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces bogged down in Anzio begin a major breakout offensive. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany. In 1960, Israel announces it has captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. (Eichmann is tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.)
May 23, 1981: Americans face the challenge of making a changing political system work for them, Maureen Reagan, daughter of the president, tells a meeting of local Republicans at the Packard Music Hall in Warren.
U.S. autoworkers must give up some of their wage and benefit gains or face losing more jobs to foreign competition, General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger B. Smith tells stockholders.
Kathy Ann Tabak of Youngstown is the winner of the first annual $500 scholarship awarded by Youngstown State University's Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, national interdisciplinary honor society.
May 23, 1966: William Gray, 28, is dead and another man wounded after a Wild West style shootout in Gordon Avenue, Campbell.
Carl C. Rigsby, 62, general manager of the Packard Electric Division of General Motors since 1958, died in Trumbull Memorial Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Eight Boardman Township residents file suit in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to block construction of a proposed $156 million mall by William M. Cafaro across from the Boardman High School.
May 23, 1956: Ohio Gov. Frank Lausche calls a special session of the Ohio Legislature for June 28 to act on legislation that would clear the way for providing water to a proposed Chevrolet plant in Lordstown by removing a five-mile limit on the extension of municipal water lines outside a city.
A Youngstown father, 21, and his wife, 32, parents of 20 children, 10 of whom are living, are found guilty of neglecting their children by Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge Henry P. Beckenbach. The father makes more than $100 a week after deductions, but the children live in squalor, there is often no food in the house and the children miss school regularly.
Mahoning County Commissioner Fred Wagner asks for a recount of votes cast in the Democratic primary in 57 precincts. Wagner lost the party nomination by 168 votes to former Commissioner Thomas R. Bees.
May 23, 1931: The Community Fund Campaign, which has a goal of $550,000, may fall $100,000 short, Chairman Leonard T. Skeggs warns volunteer workers.
An improvement and expansion program, costing $150,000, is launched at the Mullins Manufacturing Corp. in Salem.
Pottery manufacturers and workers are close to agreeing on a flat 10 percent decrease in wages.
Pope Pius XI characterizes the modern economic world as a "dictatorship" in which wealth is concentrated in a few hands and power is used cruelly.