This day in history...

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In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

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In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.

In 1533, the marriae of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine Of Aragon was declared null and void.

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In 1819, Queen Victoria was born in London.

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In 1913, the ballet "The Rite of Spring," with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, had its chaotic world premiere in Paris.

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In 1809, composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, Austria.

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Babe Ruth retired.

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In 1621, the Dutch West India Company received its charter for a trade monopoly in parts of the Americas and Africa.

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In 1783, the Montgolfer brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air ballon which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.

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In 1753, Britain's King George II gave his assent to an Act of Parliament established the British Museum.

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In 1870, author Charles Dickens died in Gad's Hill Place, England.

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In 1865, the Richard Wagner opers "Tristan und Isolde" premiered in Munich, Germany.

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In 1665, England installed a municipal government in New York, forerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

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In 1886, King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.

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In 1801, former American Revolutionary War General and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold died in London.

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In 1963,the world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova,was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6

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In 1917, during World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames; the family took the name "Windsor."

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In 1757, forces of the East India Co. led by Robert Clive defeated troops loyal to the provincial governor of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey, which effectively marked the beginning of British colonial rule in India.

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In 1314, the forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.

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1876: Battle of Little Bighorn
On this day in 1876, Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River. Determined to resist the efforts of the U.S. Army to force them onto reservations, Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse wipe out Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn

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In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.