Today in history

1456 : Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted

1550 : Chocolate introduced

1668 : Isaac Newton receives MASTERS from Trinity College in Cambridge

1802 : First comic book 'The Wasp' is published

1891 : Travelers checks patents

1948 : 6 female reservists become first women sworn into regular USA Navy

1960 : USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea

1962 : USA performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1967 : 'All You Need is Love' by The Beatles is released

1968 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1972 : First women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)

1980 : First solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel

1986 : IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released

1988 : USA performs another nuclear test at a Nevada Test Site

1990 : The Three Tenors give their first concert at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome

2005 : Four terror attacks (3 on the London Underground and 1 on a bus) rock the transport network in London killing 52 (not including the 4 bombers) and injuring over 700

2006 : Justin Timberlake released his single 'SexyBack'. The song went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 for a total of 7 weeks

2011 : The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved using an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells

2016 : Micah Xavier Johnson shoots and kills five police officers at what was a peaceful protest in Dallas Texas. The officers were there to keep watch over the protest of Alton Sterling's and Philando Castile's deaths. Johnson, a 25-year-old African American Afghanistan veteran, stated that his goal was to take down as many white officers as he could.

2017 : The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 of the 193 UN member states

2019 : The Trump administration is labelled 'inept', 'insecure' and 'incompetent' in leaked emails from the British Ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch

2020 : Thousands of people rally outside the House of the National Assembly of Serbia in Belgrade in response to stricter lockdown measures proposed by President Aleksandar Vucic following an increase of covid cases in the city.

2022 : Boris Johnson quits as UK prime minister dragged down by scandals that included breaches of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown rules, a luxury renovation of his official residence and the appointment of a minister who had been accused of sexual misconduct. The latest was Downing Street's botched handling of the resignation by Johnson's former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher who was accused of groping two men last week.

2024 : French legislative election: The left-wing New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly, upsetting a first-round victory by the far-right National Rally, but fails to achieve a majority.