October 9<\/p>\n
768 \u2013 Brothers Carloman and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks in Noyon, France.<\/p>\n
1000 \u2013 The Norse sagas record that this day, Leif Ericson discovers \u201cVinland\u201d, which is likely where a Viking village later named L\u2019Anse aux Meadows<\/em>, was founded on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.<\/p>\n 1238 \u2013 After retaking Valencia from the moors during the Reconquista, Jaume el Conqueridor of Aragon is crowned as James I of the Kingdom of Valencia.<\/p>\n 1604 \u2013\u00a0 Actually observing the conjunction of Mars and Jupiter, which was linked in the astrology of the time to the Star of Bethlehem, SN1604, (named “Kepler’s Supernova” after the european astronomical discoverer) Johanees Kepler observes what is now classed as a Type Ia supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus, visible even during the day for over 3 weeks with records of its sighting existing in Europe, China, Korea, and Arabia, and is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way galaxy<\/p>\n 1635 \u2013 Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements and founds Providence Plantations on land bought from Wampanoag Chief Massasoit, which later becomes the English colony of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n 1701 \u2013 The Collegiate School of Connecticut, later renamed Yale University, is chartered in\u00a0New Haven by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut<\/p>\n 1812 \u2013\u00a0 In a naval engagement on Lake Erie during the War of 1812, American naval forces under the command of Lieutenant Jesse Elliott, capture the British ships; HMS Detroit<\/em> and HMS Caledonia<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1825 \u2013 The private sloop Restauration<\/em> arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the U.S.<\/p>\n 1873 \u2013 A meeting of 15 naval officers at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 Boulder Dam, now renamed Hoover Dam, begins electric power generation<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Oskar Schindler dies in Hildesheim, Germany<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the “4th” US television network.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pound meteorite crashes into a parked car in Peekskill, New York<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its then all time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007\/2008 financial crises.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program intentionally crashes the spent Centaur<\/em> upper stage and data-collecting Shepherding Spacecraft <\/em>in the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon so that the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) can observe the impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 9 768 \u2013 Brothers Carloman and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks in Noyon, France. 1000 \u2013 The Norse sagas record that this day, Leif Ericson discovers \u201cVinland\u201d, which is likely where a Viking village later named L\u2019Anse aux Meadows, was founded on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. 1238 \u2013 After retaking Valencia … 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-60505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60505","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=60505"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96603,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60505\/revisions\/96603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}