This Day In History
- Arts
- 1943 The Ayn Rand novel The Fountainhead was first published by Bobbs-Merrill Co.
- Military
- 1429 Joan of Arc helped end the months-long seige of Orleans by the English. Contemporaries acknowledged Joan as the heroine of the engagement. She was wounded by an arrow between the neck and shoulder, but later returned to encourage a final assault that succeeded in taking the fortress. The English retreated from Orléans the next day, and the siege was over.
- 1947 Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson promoted Mary Hallaren to full colonel and appointed her the third director of the WAC. On June 12, 1948, when the WAC was officially integrated into the Army, she became the first woman to serve as a regular Army officer (there had been female members of the Army Medical Corps since 1947).
- Writing
- 1945 The 1944 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded, including Mary Chase for her play “Harvey."
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