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Monday, 30 May 2016

Today in History: May 30

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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