On this day in history

In the year:
1429
Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English.
1861
Maryland's House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
1862
New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
1899
Jazz musician Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C.
1916
The Easter uprising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.
1945
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. The couple killed themselves the next day.
1945
American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1946
Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals.
1974
President Richard Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.
1981
Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England over five years.

And someplace in there, my sister Mary Val was born.

Happy Birthday!!