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.