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452 \u2013 After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains in modern France, Attila The Hun lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia near the border in far northeast Italy and eventually destroys it.<\/p>\n
1195 \u2013 During the reconquista, the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII are defeated by Almohad moslem forces at Alarcos, and are forced to retreat to Toledo<\/p>\n
1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz –<\/em> Search me, O God, and know my heart (Psalms 139:23-24 ) in Leipzig<\/p>\n 1841 \u2013\u00a0 Pedro II at age 15, is crowned Emperor of Brazil after reigning under a regency since age 5.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate held Battery Wagner, south of Charleston harbor.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013\u00a0 Congress forms the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, U.S. Army<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf<\/em><\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The Germans test fly the jet fighter Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe ‘Swallow’, <\/em>\u00a0under power for the first time.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 Gemini 10, crewed by John W. Young and Michael Collins is launched from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex LC-19 on a 3 day mission<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Intel Corporation is founded in Mountain View, California<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 At the age of 14 (which is no longer allowed per an age limit 16 enacted in 1997) Nadia Com\u0103neci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 James Huberty opens fire at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California, killing 21 people and wounding 19 others before being shot dead by police.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 While performing aerial firefighting operations on the Big Elk Fire, a\u00a0 Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer<\/em> owned by Hawkins & Powers Aviation\u00a0 crashes near Estes Park, Colorado, killing both crew members.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 The Government of the City of Detroit files for municipal bankruptcy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 18 452 \u2013 After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains in modern France, Attila The Hun lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia near the border in far northeast Italy and eventually destroys it. 1195 \u2013 During the reconquista, the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII are defeated by Almohad moslem forces at Alarcos, … 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-57095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57095","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=57095"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69765,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57095\/revisions\/69765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}