June 7<\/p>\n
1098 \u2013 During the First Crusade, Saracen forces return and besiege the city of Antioch taken 5 days earlier by Crusader forces.<\/p>\n
1099 \u2013 During the First Crusade, Crusader forces besiege Jerusalem, held by the Saracens.<\/p>\n
1494 \u2013 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress calling for the colonies’ independence from Great Britain. “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”<\/em>\u00a0The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons\u2013Seward Treaty<\/em> to suppress the African slave trade.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.<\/p>\n 1906 \u2013 The Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania<\/em> is launched from the John Brown Shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The Battle of Midway ends in American victory, the turning point in the war in the Pacific against Japan.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut<\/em>, prohibits the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 During the Six-Day War, Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 ATF officers raid the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades, which were later determined to be inert, smoke and practice grenades which are perfectly legal to possess.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 The Israeli Air Force attacks and destroys Iraq’s Osiraq<\/em> nuclear reactor at the Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Center near Baghdad.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public. The tour includes a large storage building containing concert gear and the interior of the house.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Mount Pinatubo erupts on Luzon island in the Philippines.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 7 1098 \u2013 During the First Crusade, Saracen forces return and besiege the city of Antioch taken 5 days earlier by Crusader forces. 1099 \u2013 During the First Crusade, Crusader forces besiege Jerusalem, held by the Saracens. 1494 \u2013 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55707"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93435,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55707\/revisions\/93435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}