On this day in 1431, the French heroine Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for the crimes of heresy and cross-dressing. She is just 19 years old. A retrial, held 25 years after her death, will proclaim her innocent and a martyr. In 1920, the Vatican will canonize her.
On this day in 1430, the teenaged French heroine Joan of Arc is captured by pro-English Burgundians at Compiègne. A year later, she'll be tried for the crimes of heresy and cross-dressing and burned at the stake.
In 1997, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree and did not come down for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down.
She ultimately reached an agreement with the company to spare the tree and a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding it.
Two German women prisoners of war from a Wehrmachthelferin unit (female auxiliaries of the German Wehrmacht - Luftwaffe ), walk into captivity after surrendering to soldiers from the United States Seventh Army on 14th May 1945, near Bad Aibling in Bavaria, Germany.
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