September 22th<\/p>\n
1554 \u2013 Spanish Conquistador and explorer of Mexico and the North American plains, Francisco V\u00e1zquez de Coronado, dies in Mexico City.<\/p>\n
1692 \u2013 The last woman convicted in the Salem witch trials is hanged.<\/p>\n
1711 \u2013 The Tuscarora War between the Tuscarora tribe and their allies on one side and European American settlers, and Yamassee tribes, and other allies on the other begins in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 Nathan Hale is hanged by the British for spying.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 The office of United States Postmaster General is established.<\/p>\n
1823 \u2013 Joseph Smith states that after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried, that he has found golden plates which he translates into English and publishes as the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013President Lincoln issues proclamation and executive order number 95 stating that on January 1, 1863, \u00a0all persons held as slaves within any State in rebellion will be considered emancipated and free by the Union.<\/p>\n
1896 \u2013 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history at that time.<\/p>\n
1919 \u2013 A labor strike led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across many of the steel manufacturers of the nation.<\/p>\n
1941 \u2013 On the Jewish New Year Day of Rosh Hashanah, German SS troops murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine that survived a massacre a few days earlier.<\/p>\n
1948 \u2013 USAF Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.<\/p>\n
1975 \u2013 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Gerald Ford.<\/p>\n
1980 \u2013 Iraq invades Iran, beginning the nearly eight year long Iran\u2013Iraq War.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.<\/p>\n
1993 \u2013 A barge being pushed by the towboat Mauvilla <\/em>runs into a bridge crossing the Big Bayou Canot, near Mobile, Alabama, causing the derailment minutes later of the Amtrak Sunset Limited<\/em> train, killing 5 crew, 42 passengers and injuring another 103 people aboard.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 U.S. Air Force E-3B AWACS,\u00a0 callsign Yukla 27, <\/em>crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes disable 2 engines soon after takeoff, killing all 24 crew on board.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 World War II Imperial Japanese Navy pilot and author, Sabur\u014d Sakai dies after attending a formal dinner given in his honor by the U.S. Navy at Atsugi Naval Air Station in Japan.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager dies, age 90 of natural causes at his home in West Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 22th 1554 \u2013 Spanish Conquistador and explorer of Mexico and the North American plains, Francisco V\u00e1zquez de Coronado, dies in Mexico City. 1692 \u2013 The last woman convicted in the Salem witch trials is hanged. 1711 \u2013 The Tuscarora War between the Tuscarora tribe and their allies on one side and European American settlers, … 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-59860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59860","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=59860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96205,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59860\/revisions\/96205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}