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- 1456 – Joan of Arc was posthumously exonerated of heresy, 25 years after her execution. - 1520 – Hernán Cortés and his Tlaxcalan allies defeated a larger Aztec force at the Battle of Otumba in Mexico. - 1807 – Napoleon Bonaparte and Tsar Alexander I of Russia met on a raft in the Neman River to sign the Treaty of Tilsit, ending hostilities between France and Russia. - 1865 – Mary Surratt became the first woman executed by the U.S. government for her role in the assassination of President Lincoln. - 1898 – The United States annexed Hawaii, marking a major expansion of U.S. territory in the Pacific. - 1928 – The first sliced bread was sold in Missouri, described as the greatest innovation in baking since wrapped bread. - 1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident triggered the Second Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan. - 2005 – Coordinated terrorist b

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