August 29<\/p>\n
870 \u2013 The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, completing the moslem occupation of Malta.<\/p>\n
1526 \u2013 Over 160 years before the last battle between Christendom and islam in the area around Moh\u00e1cs, Hungary, the Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman I, defeat and kill Louis II, the last king of Hungary and Bohemia of the Jagiellonian dynasty<\/p>\n
1541 \u2013 The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. (n.b. The city of Buda<\/em> is just across the Danube river from the city of Pest,<\/em> the now combined city capital of Hungary, Budapest<\/em>.)<\/p>\n 1758 \u2013 The Treaty of Easton<\/em> establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape tribe.<\/p>\n 1786 \u2013 After the Massachusetts state legislature adjourns without considering the petitions sent to Boston by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays and other farmers, he leads several thousand men in an armed uprising against high taxation rates.<\/p>\n 1779 \u2013 American forces under the command of General John Sullivan defeat Tory Militia and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown in Chemung County, New York, during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n 1825 \u2013 Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro<\/em>, which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian war of independence.<\/p>\n 1831 \u2013 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Federal forces gain control of Pamlico Sound after defeating Confederate forces manning the coastal defense batteries at the Cape Hatteras inlet in North Carolina.<\/p>\n 1869 \u2013 The Mount Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire opens, the world’s first mountain climbing rack railway.<\/p>\n 1885 \u2013 Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 The Goodyear Tire Company is founded.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 The Philippine Autonomy Act <\/em>is signed into law by President Wilson, creating an all-Filipino legislature and officially declaring the U.S. government’s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, a design stolen from the U.S., known as First Lightning<\/em> or Joe 1<\/em>, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 The United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The Gemini V mission splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after nearly 8 days in orbit, establishing a new record of time spent in space.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Netflix<\/em> is launched as an internet DVD rental service.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Hurricane Katrina<\/em> hits the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 Ukraine begins a counteroffensive against Russian forces in the Kherson Oblast on the south central Black Sea coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 29 870 \u2013 The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, completing the moslem occupation of Malta. 1526 \u2013 Over 160 years before the last battle between Christendom and islam in the area around Moh\u00e1cs, Hungary, the Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman I, defeat and kill Louis II, the last … 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-58837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58837","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=58837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95538,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58837\/revisions\/95538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}