This Day in History...

kabarron1
on 5/30/06 1:09 am - Hopewell, VA

1416, Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church. 1431, Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English. 1527, The University of Marburg is founded in Germany. 1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida 1783, The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia. 1814, The First Treaty of Paris is declared, returning France to its 1792 borders. 1848, William Young patents the ice cream freezer. 1854, The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established 1868, Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves. 1883, 12 people were trampled to death when a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a stampede 1889, The brassiere is invented. 1943, American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery 1971, the American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars. 1981, the president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, was assassinated in a failed military coup. 1996, the House called off a contempt-of-Congress vote after President Clinton's aides turned over 1,000 pages of papers and a long-sought list of documents in the travel office firings. Britain's Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage. 2005, quoting letters of the fallen from the war in Iraq, President Bush vowed to a Memorial Day audience at Arlington National Cemetery that America would honor its dead by striving for peace and democracy, no matter the cost. ALSO: American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown. Officials in Lebanon announced that Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated former premier Rafik Hariri, had swept parliamentary elections in Beirut.