This Day In History
- Arts
- 2009 Internet sensation Susan Boyle placed second on “Britain’s Got Talent,” with dance troupe Diversity taking the top prize.
- Crime
- 1899 The amateur bandit Pearl Hart and her boyfriend hold up an Arizona stagecoach.
- Religion
- 1431 Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy at Rouen in English-controlled Normandy.
- Science
- 1872 Aletta Jacobs received the official notification of her admittance as a medical student at the University of Groningen, where she would become the first woman to earn a medical degree in the Netherlands.
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