September 14<\/p>\n
1723 \u2013 Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, Ant\u00f3nio Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.<\/p>\n
1741 \u2013 George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.<\/em><\/p>\n 1752 \u2013 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days, the previous day being September 2.<\/p>\n 1763 \u2013 Seneca warriors inflict heavy casualties at almost no cost as they defeat British forces near Niagara Gorge in New York during Pontiac’s War.<\/p>\n 1782 \u2013 Rendering honors to French General Rochambeau as he departs with his army, General Washington forms the Continental Army for a formal Pass In Review<\/em> at Verplanck’s Point, New York.<\/p>\n 1829 \u2013 The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, ending the Russo-Turkish War.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 At the end of the Battle of South Mountain, Maryland, with his troops suffering heavy casualties, General Lee is forced to withdraw his army after losing one engagement at Crampton’s Gap and nearly losing at the engagements at Turner’s and Fox gaps.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6th with Theodore Roosevelt succeeding him in office.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the very short-lived Russian Republic.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013\u00a0 Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces in World War II<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 The first man\u00a0made object to reach the Moon, the Soviet Luna 2<\/em> probe, crashes on the surface.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Her Serene Highness Princess Grace Kelly Grimaldi of Monaco dies at Monaco Hospital, of injuries suffered in an auto accident.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013Before committing suicide, Joseph T. Wesbecker, kills 8 and wounds 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike by the players.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete a $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 A National Prayer Service is held at the Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 Staff at the National Science Foundation’s\u00a0LIGO<\/em> interferometer laboratories in the U.S. collaborating with the European Gravitational Observatory’s\u00a0Virgo <\/em>laboratory near Pisa, Italy make the first direct observations of gravitational waves, confirming Albert Einstein’s prediction under General Relativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 14 1723 \u2013 Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, Ant\u00f3nio Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta. 1741 \u2013 George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah. 1752 \u2013 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days, the previous day being September 2. 1763 \u2013 Seneca warriors … 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-59563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59563","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=59563"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71960,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59563\/revisions\/71960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}