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920 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the armies of the alliance of Navarre and L\u00e9on lose in battle against the moslem army of the Emir of C\u00f3rdoba at Valdejunquera.<\/p>\n
1139 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the day after defeating the moslem army of Ali ibn Yusuf, Prince Afonso Henriques is proclaimed Afonso o Conquistador<\/em>, King of Portugal.<\/p>\n 1529 \u2013 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro is appointed governor of Peru.<\/p>\n 1758 \u2013 During the French and Indian War, British forces are victorious in their siege of the French Fortress of Louisbourg on Nova Scotia and complete taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.<\/p>\n 1579 \u2013 English explorer Francis Drake, on his voyage of circumnavigation, discovers a major bay on the coast of California -modern day San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 Benjamin Franklin takes office as Postmaster General as the United States Post Office is established by the Second Continental Congress.<\/p>\n 1788 \u2013 New York ratifies the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 General George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry under the command of General John Hunt Morgan are captured by Union forces.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 Attorney General Charles Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner, later to be renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The Potsdam Declaration<\/em> defining the terms of surrender required of Imperial Japan – basically unconditional – is signed in Germany by the leaders of the U.S., the UK and China. The USS Indianapolis<\/em> arrives at Tinian island with the components for the Little Boy<\/em> nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, starting the Cuban Revolution.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 NASA’s communications satellite, Syncom 2<\/em> is launched from Cape Canaveral to become the world’s first geosynchronous satellite.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Apollo 15 is launched as the first Apollo “J-Mission”, with the first Lunar Roving Vehicle stowed aboard the LM Falcon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President Bush.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Shuttle Discovery<\/em> is launched on mission STS-114 as the first flight after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President\u00a0 by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. July 26 920 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the armies of the alliance of Navarre and L\u00e9on lose in battle against the moslem army of the Emir of C\u00f3rdoba at Valdejunquera. 1139 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the day after defeating the moslem army of Ali ibn Yusuf, Prince Afonso Henriques is proclaimed Afonso o Conquistador, King … 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-57310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57310","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=57310"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94706,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57310\/revisions\/94706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSolar Impulse 2<\/em>, piloted alternately by Andr\u00e9 Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard,\u00a0 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"