1429: Joan of Arc leads French forces to victory over English at Orleans.
1624: Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council of France.
1661: The Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan.
1672: King Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1813: Rubber is patented.
1852: The first edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus is published.
1856: Yokut Indians repel a second attack by the ‘Petticoat Rangers,’ a band of civilian Indian fighters at Four Creeks, California.
1858: Austrian troops invade Piedmont.
1859: As the French army races to support them and the Austrian army mobilizes to oppose them, 150,000 Piedmontese troops invade Piedmontese territory.
1861: The Maryland House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union.
1862: Forts Philip and Jackson surrender to Admiral Farragut outside New Orleans.
1913: Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper.
1916: Irish nationalists surrender to the British in Dublin.
1918: America’s WWI Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, scores his first victory with the help of Captain James Norman Hall.
1924: Open revolt breaks out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
1927: Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis is completed.
1930: The film All Quiet on the Western Front, based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel Im Western Nichts Neues, premiers.
1945: The German Army in Italy surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.
1945: The Nazi concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by Allied troops.
1946: Former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
1975: The U.S. embassy in Vietnam is evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fight their way into Saigon.
1983: Harold Washington is sworn in as Chicago’s first black mayor.
1992: Four Los Angeles police offices are acquitted of charges stemming from the beating of Rodney King. Rioting ensues.
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