September 7<\/p>\n
70 \u2013 The Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders the rest of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1191 \u2013 In the 3rd Crusade, the army of Richard I of England defeats the army of Saladin at Arsuf.<\/p>\n
1228 \u2013 Beginning the 6th Crusade, the army of\u00a0Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre.<\/p>\n
1630 \u2013 Boston, Massachusetts is founded.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 Commanding the\u00a0Turtle, <\/em>Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle<\/em> in New York Harbor<\/p>\n 1778 \u2013 France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France’s involvement in the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n 1822 \u2013 Dom Pedro I declares Brazil’s independence\u00a0from Portugal<\/p>\n 1857 \u2013 Mormon settlers slaughter most members of an emigrant wagon train in the ‘Mountain Meadows’ massacre<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore occupy Battery Wagner and Morris Island, South Carolina, previously abandoned by Confederate forces.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.<\/p>\n 1876 \u2013 The James\u2013Younger Gang attempts to rob the bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but are driven off by armed citizens.<\/p>\n 1907 \u2013 Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania<\/em> sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 US federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation under the Federal Employers Liability Act\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 The first Miss America Pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey<\/p>\n 1923 \u2013 The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 The Luftwaffe begins The Blitz<\/em>, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 The Torrijos\u2013Carter Treaties<\/em> between Panama and the U.S. on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The Chrysler Corporation asks the U.S government for a $1.5 billion loan to avoid bankruptcy.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor<\/em> flies for the first time<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Gotthard Glas, better known as Uziel Gal, designer of the UZI and the Ruger MP-9 submachineguns, dies while being treated for cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Due to the collapse of the Mortgage Backed Security business, caused by fraudulently making\u00a0 sub-primes mortgages appear to be better risks, the U.S. government takes control of the 2 largest mortgage financing companies in the country, FNMA -Fannie Mae, and FHLMC -Freddie Mac.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Equifax announce a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting over 145 million U.S. consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 7 70 \u2013 The Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders the rest of Jerusalem. 1191 \u2013 In the 3rd Crusade, the army of Richard I of England defeats the army of Saladin at Arsuf. 1228 \u2013 Beginning the 6th Crusade, the army of\u00a0Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre. 1630 \u2013 Boston, … 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-59291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59291","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=59291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95775,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59291\/revisions\/95775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}