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1679 \u2013 The brigantine Le Griffon,<\/em> commissioned the year before by French explorer Ren\u00e9-Robert de La Salle, is towed to the southeastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.<\/p>\n 1782 \u2013 General<\/em> Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed the Purple Heart.<\/p>\n 1789 \u2013 The United States Department of War is established.<\/p>\n 1794 \u2013 President<\/em> Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1819 \u2013 Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar’s army triumphs over Spanish troops near Casa de Teja in what is now the department of Boyac\u00e1, Columbia.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York City to San Francisco.<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 On earlier learning the Japanese Army is building an airfield on the island, U.S. Marines begin invasion landings on Guadalcanal along with Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 101 days after launching from Callao, Peru, Thor Heyerdahl and crew aboard the balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki,<\/em> ground on the reef at Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Islands<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 NASA launches Explorer 6, a satellite to study the upper atmosphere from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving President Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnam<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 President Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 President Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal, New York due to negligent disposal of toxic waste<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim\u00a0 from the U.S to Russia, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. 2 1\/4 miles away. Brrrrrrrrr<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the concern that the invading forces will continue on towards the Saudi Arabian oilfields, the first wave of 15,000 U.S. troops arrive in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Fine Air cargo flight 101, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing all 4 crew aboard and 1 person on the ground.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya by Islamic Jihad, kill 212 people.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 At AT&T Park, in San Francisco, during the game between his San Francisco Giants<\/em> against the Washington Nationals<\/em>, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron’s 33 year old record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 7 1679 \u2013 The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned the year before by French explorer Ren\u00e9-Robert de La Salle, is towed to the southeastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. 1782 \u2013 General Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military … 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-57837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57837","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=57837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94991,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57837\/revisions\/94991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}