1416 | | Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church. |
1431 | | Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English. |
1527 | | The University of Marburg is founded in Germany. |
1539 | | Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold. |
1783 | | The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia. |
1814 | | The First Treaty of Paris is declared, returning France to its 1792 borders. |
1848 | | William Young patents the ice cream freezer. |
1854 | | The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise. |
1859 | | The Piedmontese army crosses the Sesia River and defeats the Austrians at Palestro. |
1862 | | Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, Mississippi. |
1868 | | Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves. |
1889 | | The brassiere is invented. |
1912 | | U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests. |
1913 | | The First Balkan War ends. |
1921 | | The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior. |
1942 | | The Royal Air Force launches the first 1,000 plane raid over Germany. |
1971 | | NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars. |
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