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480BC \u2013 The Persian emperor Xerxes receives the response by King Leonidas of Sparta to his demand that the Greeks hand over their arms; \u039c\u03bf\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd\u00a0 \u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03ad “Come and take them<\/em>!”.<\/p>\n 48 BC \u2013 During the last Civil War of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus in central Greece and Pompey flees to Egypt.<\/p>\n 1173 \u2013 Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa is started. It begins leaning almost as soon as it is completed.<\/p>\n 1610 \u2013 The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.<\/p>\n 1814 \u2013 The Creek nation signs the Treaty of Fort Jackson<\/em>, giving up parts of Alabama and Georgia.<\/p>\n 1842 \u2013 The Webster\u2013Ashburton Treaty<\/em> is signed, establishing the United States\u2013Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.<\/p>\n 1892 \u2013 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two way<\/em> ‘duplex’ telegraph.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 The French Army begins its first offensive against Germany when VII Corps attacks the city of Mulhouse, ceded to Germany at the end of the Franco-Prussian war 43 years earlier.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 Kermit Beahan, the bombardier on B-29 Bockscar <\/em>is born in Joplin, Missouri.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the XI Olympiad games in Berlin<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 Allied naval forces protecting amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised off Savo Island by a\u00a0 Japanese Navy cruiser force resulting in the loss of the HMAS Canberra<\/em>, USS Vincennes<\/em>, USS Quincy<\/em>\u00a0 and USS Astoria.<\/em><\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 The United States Forest Service releases posters featuring Smokey Bear<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 U.S. Army Air Force Major Charles Sweeney and crew aboard the B29 bomber Bockscar<\/em>, drops \u201cFat Man<\/em>\u201d atomic bomb #F-31 on their secondary target, Nagasaki after the primary target of Kokura is obscured by clouds and smoke<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 Followers of Charles Manson murder actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 President Nixon resigns from office. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in to become the 38th President.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and rioting in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 9 480BC \u2013 The Persian emperor Xerxes receives the response by King Leonidas of Sparta to his demand that the Greeks hand over their arms; \u039c\u03bf\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd\u00a0 \u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03ad “Come and take them!”. 48 BC \u2013 During the last Civil War of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus in central Greece and … 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-57844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57844","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=57844"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95031,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57844\/revisions\/95031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}