August 17<\/p>\n
1386 \u2013 Karl Topia, the ruler of the Principality of Albania allies with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the moslem\u00a0Ottomans in return.<\/p>\n
1585 \u2013 Sent by Sir Walter Raleigh and led by Ralph Lane, a group of English colonists found Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina<\/p>\n
1717 \u2013 The 2 month siege to retake Belgrade from the Ottoman empire ends when Austrian troops succeed in capturing the city<\/p>\n
1786 \u2013 Davy Crockett is born in what is now Greene County, Tennessee<\/p>\n
1807 \u2013 Robert Fulton’s steamboat North River<\/em> leaves New York City for Albany, starting the first commercial steamboat service.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 A category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 U.S. Marines of the 2nd\u00a0Marine Raider\u00a0Battalion, under command of Colonel\u00a0Evans Carlson\u00a0and Captain\u00a0James Roosevelt, raid the Japanese held\u00a0Makin atoll<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 The U.S. 7th Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Sicily several hours ahead of the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Animal Farm<\/em> by George Orwell is published.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 Category 5 Hurricane Camille<\/em> hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 people and causing $1.4 billion in damage.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 Double Eagle II, <\/em>piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman,\u00a0becomes the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean, landing in Miserey, France<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 President Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an “improper physical relationship” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he “misled people” about the relationship.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 American Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win 8 gold medals at one Olympic Games.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013\u00a0 A moslem terrorist drives a van into pedestrians in Barcelona, Spain, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 17 1386 \u2013 Karl Topia, the ruler of the Principality of Albania allies with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the moslem\u00a0Ottomans in return. 1585 \u2013 Sent by Sir Walter Raleigh and led by Ralph Lane, a group of English colonists found … 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-58302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58302","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=58302"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95220,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58302\/revisions\/95220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}