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1066 \u2013The defeat\u00a0 of the armies of Earls Morcar and Edwin at Fulford England by Harald Hardrada’s invading Norse army, compels King Harald Godwinson to force march his army the 190 miles from London to York in less than 6 days.<\/p>\n
1187 \u2013 The Saracen army of Salah ad-Din begins the Siege of Jerusalem, ending with the surrender of the city by Balian of Ibelin less than two weeks later on October 2nd.<\/p>\n
1519 \u2013 Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet sets sail from Sanl\u00facar de Barrameda on his expedition to the east indies from the west, that will eventually circumnavigate the globe<\/p>\n
1737 \u2013 By terms of a 1686 treaty, the Lenape-Delaware tribe sign a new treaty ceding 1.2 million acres of land to the Pennsylvania Colony<\/p>\n
1835 \u2013 In the Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul, Generals Bento Gon\u00e7alves da Silva and Ant\u00f4nio de Sousa Neto begin a rebellion called the Revolu\u00e7\u00e3o Farroupilha or The Ragamuffin War.<\/em><\/p>\n 1881 \u2013 Chester A. Arthur is officially sworn in as President after the death of President Garfield the day before.<\/p>\n 1893 \u2013 Charles Duryea and his brother road test the first American made, gasoline powered automobile.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 At Natchitoches, Louisiana’s regional airport, Jim Croce’s chartered light plane, a Beech E18Sm, crashes on takeoff, killing all 6 aboard.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 22 people.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 USAir Flight 5050,\u00a0 a Boeing 737, crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing 2 passengers of the 63 pass people.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, President George W. Bush declares a “War on Terror”.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 The United States military ends its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Hurricane Maria<\/em> hits Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths and $90 billion in damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 20 1066 \u2013The defeat\u00a0 of the armies of Earls Morcar and Edwin at Fulford England by Harald Hardrada’s invading Norse army, compels King Harald Godwinson to force march his army the 190 miles from London to York in less than 6 days. 1187 \u2013 The Saracen army of Salah ad-Din begins the Siege of … 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-59792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59792","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=59792"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96132,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59792\/revisions\/96132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}