Today In History

1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

1539: Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.

1922: The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

1943: American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.

1982: Spain became NATO’s 16th member, the first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.