It happened today in history!

1431 – Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.   (oh no!!)

da vinci's flying machine

1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.  (A for effort Mr da Vinci!)

1777 – American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.      (Yay! One of Si's favorite generals!)

1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.  (and now we have  (and if it wasn't for that, we wouldn't have Texas in the United States. And if we didn't have Texas we wouldn't have the things that came from Texas such as liquid paper (invented by a secretary), Barney the Dinosaur, Fritos corn chips, corn dogs, and Dr Pepper!!)

1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.

 1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.

 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. (And just a few years later, Si's grandma lived there for a few years as a kid and even got chased around by a moose!)

 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.