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135 \u2013 The besieged town of Betar, in Judea falls to Roman forces on Tisha bAv<\/em> , ending the 3rd Jewish revolt led by Simon bar Kokhba<\/p>\n 910 \u2013 Danish Vikings on the last major raid on England for nearly a century are defeated at Tettenhall, by the allied forces of King Edward of Wessex and \u00c6thelred, Lord of Mercia.<\/p>\n 939 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the forces of Ramiro II of Le\u00f3n are defeated by forces of Abd ar Rahman III, emir of C\u00f3rdoba at Zamora, Spain.<\/p>\n 1278 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the forces of Alphonso X of Castile take the port city of Algeciras, held by the Emir of Granada, under siege for the first time.<\/p>\n 1583 \u2013 Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at St. John’s, Newfoundland.<\/p>\n 1620 \u2013 The Mayflower<\/em> departs from Southampton but is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, Speedwell<\/em>, springs a leak.<\/p>\n 1763 \u2013 During the Pontiac War, British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac’s Indians at Bushy Run.<\/p>\n 1816 \u2013 The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds’ new invention of the first working electric telegraph as “wholly unnecessary”<\/p>\n 1858 \u2013 The Atlantic Telegraph Company led by Cyrus West Field, completes the first transatlantic telegraph cable, which turns out to be barely functional and is accidentally destroyed 3 weeks later in an attempt to increase transmission speed<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 The United States levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861<\/em> to help pay for the War Between the States.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports of Mobile.<\/p>\n 1884 \u2013 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 The first electric traffic light is installed in Cleveland, Ohio. Legend has it that the first traffic ticket for running a red light was written the same day.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 Allied forces, under Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under Friedrich von Kressenstein, and secure the Suez Canal<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 Neil Armstrong is born in Wapakoneta, Ohio,<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 Polish insurgents liberate the G\u0119si\u00f3wka labor camp in Warsaw. Nazis begin to massacre civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 American Bandstand debuts on the ABC television network<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga<\/em> and USS Constellation<\/em> bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 President Reagan fires 11,359 striking air traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Wade Page enters a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing 6 people before committing suicide after being wounded by police.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 Contractors and personnel of the Environmental Protection Agency damage a dam retaining the Gold King Mine waste water containment pool, releasing three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 5 135 \u2013 The besieged town of Betar, in Judea falls to Roman forces on Tisha bAv , ending the 3rd Jewish revolt led by Simon bar Kokhba 910 \u2013 Danish Vikings on the last major raid on England for nearly a century are defeated at Tettenhall, by the allied forces of King Edward … 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-57796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796","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=57796"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94951,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796\/revisions\/94951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}