October 10<\/p>\n
732 \u2013 Charles Martel’s army of Franks and Aquitanians defeat an invading moslem Umayyad army near Tours, France.<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 The crew of the Santa Maria <\/em>nearly mutiny against Columbus.<\/p>\n 1814 \u2013 During the War of 1812, on and around Long Island, New York, sailors of the United States Revenue-Marine begins a 3 day battle to defend their beached cutter USRC\u00a0Eagle<\/em> during repair operations, from an ultimately successful attempt by the crews of the Royal Navy’s ships HMS Narcissus<\/em> and HMS Dispatch <\/em>to board and tow the ship away as a prize.<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 In Annapolis, Maryland, the first class of the Naval School, now the United States Naval Academy begins<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 Chiang Kai-shek is named Chairman of the government of the Republic of China and Generalissimo of the National Revolutionary Army.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 United Airlines Trip 23, a Boeing 247 crashes near Chesterton, Indiana due to the explosion of an bomb aboard the plane, killing all 7 passengers and crew aboard, the first known instance of aerial sabotage, and which remains unsolved.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 The international Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 US Navy F-14 aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 17, launch off USS Saratoga<\/em> and intercept Egyptian Airlines Flight 2843, carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro<\/em> hijacking, forcing it to land at the NATO base at Sigonella, Italy causing an international incident.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Congress approves a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Iraq.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Mercury Aurora 7<\/em> Astronaut Scott Carpenter dies at the Denver Hospice Inpatient Care Center, after suffering a stroke.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Hurricane Michael<\/em> makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle at Category 5 power, killing 57 people and causing an estimated $25 billion in damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 10 732 \u2013 Charles Martel’s army of Franks and Aquitanians defeat an invading moslem Umayyad army near Tours, France. 1492 \u2013 The crew of the Santa Maria nearly mutiny against Columbus. 1814 \u2013 During the War of 1812, on and around Long Island, New York, sailors of the United States Revenue-Marine begins a 3 … 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-60542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60542","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=60542"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96645,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60542\/revisions\/96645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}