What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
On this day in 1415, John Huss (Jan Hus) was burned at the stake due to his opposition to the heretical doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church and his faith and devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ.