1429: English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army
1867: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material
1912: Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer
1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost
1939: Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1945: World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims
1952: The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer
2017: Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen
Source: Onthisday.com
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