July 15<\/p>\n
70 \u2013 After 3 days of siege the army of Roman general – and later emperor – Titus breaches the walls of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1099 \u2013 Christian soldiers of the First Crusade take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a final assault.<\/p>\n
1149 \u2013 The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1482 \u2013 Muhammad XII is crowned the 22nd and last moslem king of Granada.<\/p>\n
1741 \u2013 Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris during the French revolution.<\/p>\n
1799 \u2013 The Rosetta Stone is found in, of all places, the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre Fran\u00e7ois Bouchard<\/p>\n
1806 \u2013 Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition of the west from Fort Bellefontaine, Missouri<\/p>\n
1834 \u2013 The Spanish Inquisition, which no one ever expected, is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years of operation.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 On the Mississippi river, the Confederate ironclad Arkansas<\/em>, under the command of Captain Isaac N. Brown engages the Union flotilla of the Carondelet, Tyler<\/em>, and Queen of the West<\/em>, commanded by Admiral David Farragut. All ships sustain heavy damage but the Arkansas<\/em> breaks through to Vicksburg<\/p>\n 1870 \u2013 Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union under Reconstruction.<\/p>\n 1910 \u2013 In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products, later renamed Boeing.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 The Second Battle of the Marne during World War I begins with a German attack.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 General of The Armies, John J. ‘Black Jack’ Pershing, age 87, dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, the Boeing 367-80 makes its maiden flight<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 The Apollo\u2013Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet\/United States human crewed flight.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 Twitter is launched.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Steven Fjestad, age 68 author of multiple editions of the Blue Book of Gun Values dies of a short illness at his home in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 15 70 \u2013 After 3 days of siege the army of Roman general – and later emperor – Titus breaches the walls of Jerusalem. 1099 \u2013 Christian soldiers of the First Crusade take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a final assault. 1149 \u2013 The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre … 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-56968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56968","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=56968"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94395,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56968\/revisions\/94395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}