Historical Events
- 1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army
- 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 World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by 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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Today in Film & TV
- 2017 “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” becomes the highest grossing Indian box office film ever earning $120 million
Today in Music
- 1824 Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th (Choral) Symphony, often regarded as his greatest work, premieres in Vienna
Today in Sport
- 1992 Champion Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr. retires after winning 7,057 thoroughbred horse races
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Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth
Famous Weddings
- 1883 US Senator Albert B. Fall (21) weds Emma Garland Morgan in Clarksville, Texas
- 1914 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in The White House
- 1950 Actor Jack Lemmon (25) weds tv actress Cynthia Stone (24)
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