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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 May twenty-fifth, nineteen sixty-one, before a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy made a declaration that stopped the room cold.
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