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