WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2025

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 would receive 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 sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost

1945-Unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims, Northern France

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