September 18<\/p>\n
324 \u2013 The forces of Co-Emperor Constantine decisively defeats those of Co-Emperor Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, near modern day Kad\u0131k\u00f6y (Chalcedon) Turkey, establishing him as sole Emperor in control over the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n
1066 \u2013 The fleet of Norwegian King Harald Sigurdsson Hardrada lands with his brother Tostig Godwinson and a force of 10,000 men at the mouth of the Humber River on the central east coast of England to back his claim to the throne.<\/p>\n
1793 \u2013 The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.<\/p>\n
1837 \u2013 Tiffany & Young company is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City.<\/p>\n
1850 \u2013 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.<\/p>\n
1850 \u2013 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.<\/p>\n
1851 \u2013 The New-York Daily Times,<\/em> which later becomes The New York Times <\/em>goes into publication<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Confederate General John Bell Hood begins the Franklin\u2013Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw General William Sherman out of Georgia.<\/p>\n 1870 \u2013 Observing the regularity of a geyser’s eruption during the exploration of Northwest Wyoming Territory by the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition, Henry D. Washburn names it “Old Faithful<\/em>“.<\/p>\n 1873 \u2013 The Jay Cooke & Company bank in Philadelphia declares bankruptcy, starting a financial crisis and economic depression in Europe and North America that lasts until 1877<\/p>\n 1895 \u2013 Booker T. Washington gives a speech on racial relations at the Cotton States and International Exposition world fair at Piedmont Park in\u00a0 Atlanta<\/p>\n 1905 \u2013 Greta Garbo is born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm Sweden<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria, China.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 The National Security Act goes into effect, reorganizing the United States government’s military and intelligence services, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Council, separating the Army Air force into the Department of the Air Force and the United States Air Force, forming the Marine Corps as an independent service under the Department of the Navy, and merging the Department of the Navy into the Department of War as the ‘National Military Establishment’, later named the Department of Defense in 1948.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 NASA’s Voyager I<\/em> probe takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 Retired USAF Colonel Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 United States media magnate Ted Turner donates $1 billion to the United Nations.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Letters originating from Trenton, New Jersey, containing anthrax spores, begin to be received the offices of several U.S. Senators and news media.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies of complications of pancreatic cancer in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 18 324 \u2013 The forces of Co-Emperor Constantine decisively defeats those of Co-Emperor Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, near modern day Kad\u0131k\u00f6y (Chalcedon) Turkey, establishing him as sole Emperor in control over the Roman Empire. 1066 \u2013 The fleet of Norwegian King Harald Sigurdsson Hardrada lands with his brother Tostig Godwinson and a … 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-59710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59710","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=59710"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96094,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59710\/revisions\/96094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}