July 12<\/p>\n
70 \u2013 The armies of Titus begin the attack on the walls of Jerusalem after a 6 month siege<\/p>\n
1191 \u2013 Saladin’s garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the 2 year long siege of Acre during the 3rd Crusade<\/p>\n
1804 \u2013 Alexander Hamilton dies the day after being shot by Aaron Burr in a duel.<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now Windsor, Ontario during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 The Medal of Honor is authorized by Congress.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2013 Riots, lasting over 4 days, begin in Newark, New Jersey over an incident of police brutality, resulting in 26 deaths<\/p>\n
1973 \u2013 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States in St Louis.<\/p>\n
2001 \u2013 Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock<\/em> to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 12 70 \u2013 The armies of Titus begin the attack on the walls of Jerusalem after a 6 month siege 1191 \u2013 Saladin’s garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the 2 year long siege of Acre during the 3rd Crusade 1804 \u2013 Alexander Hamilton dies the day after being shot by Aaron Burr in … 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-56902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902","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=56902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94301,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902\/revisions\/94301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}