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Joan of Arc, Beethoven's Ninth & the Birth of Coca-Cola | May 5–10
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From Joan of Arc's siege-breaking victory at Orléans to Nelson Mandela's inauguration, this week in history delivers ten world-changing moments across six centuries. Beethoven premieres his Ninth Symphony deaf, Bannister breaks the four-minute mile, and a pharmacist in Atlanta mixes the world's most famous drink.
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On September twenty-first, eleven seventy, in Dublin, Ireland, Anglo-Norman forces swept into the Kingdom of Dublin and seized control, dealing a decisive blow to Gaelic rule on the island. It was a military conquest with consequences that would echo for centuries, planting the roots of English involvement in Irish affairs.
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