On August 19th, three women from Samlesbury Village, England were put on trial for witchcraft in one of the country's most famous witch trials. In 1782, the Battle of Blue Licks occurred in the American Revolutionary War, nearly ten months after Lord Cornwallis surrendered. During World War II in 1944, Paris was liberated from German occupation with help from Allied troops. In 1989, several hundred East Germans crossed the border from Hungary to Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, beginning the process that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.