July 7<\/p>\n
1124 \u2013 The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a long siege.<\/p>\n
1456 \u2013 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.<\/p>\n
1534 \u2013 Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with native peoples in what is now Canada.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.<\/p>\n
1846 \u2013 During the Mexican-American War, US troops of the Pacific Naval Squadron occupy the port towns of Monterey and Yerba Buena (modern day San Francisco) , in the Mexican province of California.<\/p>\n
1863 \u2013 The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 4 conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged in the yard of Fort McNair in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n
1898 \u2013 President McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.<\/p>\n
1907 \u2013 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. stages his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.<\/p>\n
1911 \u2013 The U.S., UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911,<\/em> banning open water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 During the World War II U.S. invasion of Saipan, General Yoshitsugu Sait\u014d orders the largest banzai charge of the war, gathering close to 4,300 Japanese soldiers and charging directly into the U.S. Army’s 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 105th Infantry Regiment, killing or wounding over 2,000 men in a 15 hour battle until almost all the Japanese soldiers taking part in the charge are killed.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 While piloting the plane on its maiden flight, Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.<\/p>\n 1952 \u2013 The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 President Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013President Reagan appoints Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov in response to a letter she wrote to him.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 The New York State Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 NASA Opportunity<\/em> rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover\u2013B, is launched aboard a Delta II rocket at Cape Canaveral Launch Site 17B<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 A Rediske Air, De Havilland Otter<\/em> air taxi, crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing all 10 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 A disgruntled black man shoots 14 policemen during an anti police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing 5 of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot delivered bomb while holed up in a college library building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 7 1124 \u2013 The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a long siege. 1456 \u2013 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. 1534 \u2013 Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with native peoples in what is now Canada. 1777 \u2013 American forces retreating from … 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-56710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56710","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=56710"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94169,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56710\/revisions\/94169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}