| 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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