On This Day in History |
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1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army. |
 | 1906 Advertisement for Nobel's Dynamite in a German newspaper |
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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 German surrender to the Allies in World War II signed by German General Alfred Jodl at Rheims. |
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 |
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American millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt died a hero on this day trying to save women and children aboard the liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German U-boat. |
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