Today in History

Today in History

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.

Born

1672 Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia.

1867 Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist.

1903 Countee Cullen, American poet.

1908 Hannes Alfvén, Swedish, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist.

1908 Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist.

1909 Benny Goodman, musician, big band leader.

1916 Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, co-discoverer of plutonium.

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