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1227 \u2013 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades<\/p>\n
1578 \u2013 Spaniards lay claim on the site of a settlement of the Lenca and Tolupan tribes in Honduras and found the city Real de Minas de San Miguel de Tegucigalpa<\/em> as the capitol of the area<\/p>\n 1789 \u2013 As the 1st U.S. Congress adjourns, the U.S. Department of War establishes a regular army.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Union forces under General Grant assaulting Confederates under General Lee along their lines on New Market Road cause them to retreat from Fort Harrison in Henrico County south of Richmond.<\/p>\n 1907 \u2013 The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 As the St Quentin Canal, France’ sector of the German defensive Hindenburg Line is breached by an Allied attack, General Erich Ludendorff of Germany’s Supreme Army Command calls for the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.<\/p>\n 1923 \u2013 The League of Nations’ British Mandate for Palestine takes effect.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the 2 day long Babi Yar valley Kyiv massacre, murdering over 33,000 Jews<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Braniff International Airways Flight 542, a Lockheed L-188 Electra,\u00a0 disintegrates in flight from unknown causes and crashes near Buffalo, Texas, killing all 34 people passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 NASA launches Shuttle Discovery <\/em>on\u00a0STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Construction is completed of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne<\/em> performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 Master at Arms 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor USN jumps onto a grenade thrown at his SEAL team, covering it with his body and absorbing\u00a0 most of the force of the blast, killing him. For his actions he is awarded the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013\u00a0 After the first House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act<\/em> (called the ‘Wall Street Bailout’) fails, the stock market crashes over 700 points – about 10% –\u00a0 precipitating a financial recession many economists calculated was the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 Feminist and singer, Helen Reddy dies, age 78 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 29 1227 \u2013 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades 1578 \u2013 Spaniards lay claim on the site of a settlement of the Lenca and Tolupan tribes in Honduras and found the city Real de Minas de San Miguel de Tegucigalpa as … 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-60155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60155","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=60155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96362,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60155\/revisions\/96362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}