1429: English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army

1906: Advertisement for Nobel’s Dynamite in the German newspaper “Deutsch-Südwestafrikanische Zeitung”Nobel’s Dynamite

1867: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he receives for the explosive material

1912: Columbia University approves plans to award the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after establishment by Joseph Pulitzer

1915: RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland, with 1,198 lives lost

1945: German Third Reich General Alfred Jodl signs documents of surrender to the Allies at Reims, France; Soviet Union refuses to recognize it

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