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1494 \u2013 The Treaty of Tordesillas<\/em> is ratified. This divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese and the Spanish along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress adopts a resolution offered by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, severing political ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain.<\/p>\n 1881 \u2013 Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds President Garfield, who dies of complications on September 19.<\/p>\n 1890 \u2013 The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act <\/em>to regulate free competition in commerce.<\/p>\n 1897 \u2013 British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for a radio transceiver in London.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 A lighter than air ship designed and constructed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany makes its first flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen.<\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 President Harding signs the Knox\u2013Porter Resolution<\/em> formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific ocean on their flight around the world.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 The first Walmart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013\u00a0 1,400 moslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled during a stampede in a pedestrian tunnel from the ‘tent city’ of Mina into Mecca.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 USAir Flight 1016,\u00a0 a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, North Carolina, killing 37 of the 52 passengers, and injuring the other 20 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted in patient Robert Tools who lives for another 151 days.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 \u00cdngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 The International Astronomical Union names Pluto’s 4th and 5th moons, Kerberos<\/em> and Styx.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 2 1494 \u2013 The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified. This divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese and the Spanish along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean. 1776 \u2013 The Second Continental Congress adopts a resolution offered by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, severing … 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-56544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56544","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=56544"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94023,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56544\/revisions\/94023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}