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1538 \u2013 Bogot\u00e1 Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jim\u00e9nez de Quesada<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 American forces & allied indians attempting to relieve Fort Stanwix\u00a0 are ambushed by Loyalist forces & allied indians near Oriskany, New York.<\/p>\n
1787 \u2013 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas<\/em> is scuttled on the Mississippi River after earlier suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge<\/p>\n 1890 \u2013 William Kemmler becomes the first person in the U.S. to be executed by electric chair at Auburn Prison, New York<\/p>\n 1912 \u2013 The Progressive “Bull Moose”\u00a0 Party opens its convention at the Chicago Coliseum.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 Serbia declares war on Germany. Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 U.S Army Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbets and crew aboard the B29 bomber Enola Gay<\/em>, drops “Little Boy<\/em>” atomic bomb #L-11 on Hiroshima.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to the invasion of Kuwait.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Tim Berners-Lee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, inventor of HTML language, the web browser and web server,\u00a0 publishes on the internet a short summary of the World Wide Web project that had been activated in January.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 A U.S. Army CH-47D helicopter, call sign Extortion 17<\/em> is shot down in Maidan Wardak province Afghanistan by Taliban forces, killing 23 U.S Navy SEAL Team-6 operators , 5 U.S. National Guard and Reserve aircrew, 2 U.S. Air Force ParaRescuemen, 1 U.S. Air Force Combat Controller,\u00a0 a U.S. military working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 NASA’s Curiosity<\/em> rover lands on the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 6 1538 \u2013 Bogot\u00e1 Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jim\u00e9nez de Quesada 1777 \u2013 American forces & allied indians attempting to relieve Fort Stanwix\u00a0 are ambushed by Loyalist forces & allied indians near Oriskany, New York. 1787 \u2013 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention … 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-57807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57807","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=57807"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94953,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57807\/revisions\/94953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}