In 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English.
In 1861, Maryland's House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
In 1945, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, where tens of thousands of people had perished. With the Third Reich collapsing around him, Adolf Hitler appointed Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor. Hitler also married his mistress, Eva Braun, ina Berlin bunker.
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Movie director Fred Zinnemann (1907)
Actress Celeste Holm (1919)
Football coach George Allen (1922)
Poet Rod McKuen (1933)
Conductor Zubin Mehta (1933)
Singer Tommy James (1947)
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"How easy it is for a man to die rich, if he will but be contented to live miserable."
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Henry Fielding, English author and dramatist, 1707-1754