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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