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1457 \u2013The Mainz Psalter –<\/em> a volume containing the Book of Psalms – the second book to be printed on movable type, is published by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer<\/p>\n 1480 \u2013 After falling to a siege by an invading moslem Ottoman army on the 11th of the month, the people of Otranto, Italy who refuse to convert to islam are slaughtered.<\/p>\n 1720 \u2013 The Spanish military Villasur Expedition is nearly wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present day Columbus, Nebraska.<\/p>\n 1842 \u2013 The Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles removed from Florida to the Indian Territory, modern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n 1848 \u2013 The Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.<\/p>\n 1851 \u2013 John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday is born in Griffin, Georgia.<\/p>\n 1880 \u2013 Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Cologne, Germany, begun almost to the day in 1248, is officially completed.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 A\u00a0French army offensive to recover the province of Moselle from Germany begins<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.<\/p>\n 1935 \u2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Emperor Hirohito records the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the Greater East Asia War <\/em>and instructs the government to transmit to the Allies the full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration<\/em> and surrender of Japan.\u00a0<\/em> 1959 \u2013 The first official meeting of the American Football League is held in Chicago.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa forms the “Solidarno\u015b\u0107<\/em>” – Solidarity – trade union and orders a strike at the shipyards in Gda\u0144sk, Poland.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 UPS Airlines cargo flight 1354, an Airbus A300, crashes short of the runway at Birmingham\u2013Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama, killing both crew members on board.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba reopens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba\u2013United States relations were broken off.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0President Biden’s plan to quickly withdraw U.S forces from Afghanistan collapses into chaos, as troops are ordered to abandon large quantities materiel, equipment, arms and numerous U.S. citizens and allied Afghans as they retreat to within the perimeter of the Hamid Karzai airport and are surrounded by Taliban forces entering Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 14 1457 \u2013The Mainz Psalter – a volume containing the Book of Psalms – the second book to be printed on movable type, is published by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer 1480 \u2013 After falling to a siege by an invading moslem Ottoman army on the 11th of the month, the people of Otranto, … 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-58127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127","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=58127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95151,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions\/95151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA group of Imperial Army officers begin an attempt at a coup d’\u00e9tat\u00a0<\/em>to stop the surrender, confiscate the recording and occupy the Imperial Palace.<\/p>\n