Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundian Faction at the siege of Compiègne.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second in the film series, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in the US.
Henry VIII declared his marriage to Catherine of Aragon officially null and void, despite Pope Clement VII's refusal to allow it.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
At the 33rd Cannes Film Festival, 'All That Jazz' and 'Kagemusha' were jointly awarded the Palme d'Or award.
The first satellite launched by the US, the Explorer 1, stopped transmitting data.
