July 13<\/p>\n
587 BC \u2013 Babylon’s siege of Jerusalem ends following the destruction of Solomon’s Temple.<\/p>\n
100 BC \u2013 Julius Caesar is born in Rome.<\/p>\n
1787 \u2013 The Congress of the Confederation (under the Articles of Confederation), enacts the Northwest Ordinance<\/em> establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory (Northwest, that is of the Ohio River)<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 In New York City, opponents of conscription begin 3 days of rioting<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret White House Oval Office taping system to the Senate Watergate Committee<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 New York City experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 The Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. SSG Ryan Pitts is later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 13 587 BC \u2013 Babylon’s siege of Jerusalem ends following the destruction of Solomon’s Temple. 100 BC \u2013 Julius Caesar is born in Rome. 1787 \u2013 The Congress of the Confederation (under the Articles of Confederation), enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory (Northwest, that is of the Ohio River) … 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-56909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56909","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=56909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94321,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56909\/revisions\/94321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}