October 6<\/p>\n
1066 \u2013 Apparently unaware of the size of the invading force that landed in the south, King Harold Godwinson leaves most of his badly mauled army at York, England as he marches the rest south in an attempt to surprise Duke William’s forces as he did Harald Hardrada’s at Stamford Bridge earlier<\/p>\n
1536 \u2013 Bible translator William Tyndale is executed for heresy in Belgium.<\/p>\n
1539 \u2013 The Spanish expedition of Hernado DeSoto takes over the Apalachee tribe’s capital of Anhaica, near modern day Tallahassee Florida, for their winter quarters.<\/p>\n
1683 \u2013 German immigrant families found (you guessed it) Germantown, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 To create a diversion to split the American forces of General Gates defending the Hudson River valley, British forces under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton capture Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery, and dismantle the Hudson River Chain.<\/p>\n
1884 \u2013 The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n
1898 \u2013 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.<\/p>\n
1908 \u2013 Austria-Hungary takes the opportunity to formally annex Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire as Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottomans causing a diplomatic crisis due to both events being seen as violations of the 1878 Treaty of Berlin between Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n
1927 \u2013 The Jazz Singer<\/em>, the first feature length movie with both synchronized music and speech, opens at Warner Brother theater in New York<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 American troops complete operations to force Japanese troops from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated at a military parade in Cairo, by members of Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 A mortar attack on the U.S. compound at Mogadishu, Somalia kills 1 Delta Force soldier, Sergeant Matthew Rierson and wounds another 12 U.S. service members.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, first named Bellerophon<\/em>, but later officially Dimidium<\/em> is discovered.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 Jason Lewis aboard Moksha<\/em> completes the first human powered circumnavigation of the Earth.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 Instagram is founded.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as a Supreme Court Associate Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 6 1066 \u2013 Apparently unaware of the size of the invading force that landed in the south, King Harold Godwinson leaves most of his badly mauled army at York, England as he marches the rest south in an attempt to surprise Duke William’s forces as he did Harald Hardrada’s at Stamford Bridge earlier 1536 … 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-60373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60373","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=60373"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96510,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60373\/revisions\/96510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}