August 13<\/p>\n
1521 \u2013 Spanish troops led by conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s capture Emperor Tlatoani Cuauht\u00e9moc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.<\/p>\n
1553 \u2013 Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva on charges of heresy.<\/p>\n
1624 \u2013 Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke de Richelieu as prime minister.<\/p>\n
1779 \u2013 The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition in the Penobscot Bay near Castine, Maine,\u00a0resulting in the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n
1806 \u2013 Serbian Revolutionary forces under ‘Kara\u0111or\u0111e’ Petrovi\u0107 engage and defeat an invading Ottoman army near Mi\u0161ar, Serbia<\/p>\n
1860 \u2013 Phoebe ‘Annie Oakley’ Mosey is born at home in Woodland, Ohio<\/p>\n
1889 \u2013 William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for a “Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones”<\/p>\n
1898 \u2013 Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 Major General Eugene Reybold of the Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities for the “Development of Substitute Materials” (U-235) later named the Manhattan Project.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 American forces resume conventional air raids target in Japan and also drop leaflets describing the Japanese offer of surrender and the Allied response.<\/p>\n
1961 \u2013 East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin and starts construction of the Berlin Wall<\/p>\n
1967 \u2013 Two park employees, Julie Helgeson and Michele Koons, become the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks at Montana’s Glacier National Park since its founding in 1910.<\/p>\n
1969 \u2013 The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City and are later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/p>\n
2020 \u2013 As part of the Abraham Accords<\/em>,\u00a0 mediated by President Trump, for the first time, formal diplomatic relations are established between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 13 1521 \u2013 Spanish troops led by conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s capture Emperor Tlatoani Cuauht\u00e9moc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. 1553 \u2013 Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva on charges of heresy. 1624 \u2013 Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke de Richelieu as prime minister. 1779 \u2013 … 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-58087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58087","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=58087"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95078,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58087\/revisions\/95078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}