October 11<\/p>\n
1614 \u2013 The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States.<\/p>\n
1767 \u2013 Surveying for the Mason\u2013Dixon line, separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 During the Revolution, a fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.<\/p>\n
1890 \u2013 The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
1906 \u2013 San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.<\/p>\n
1910 \u2013 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 Off\u00a0the Solomon Islands between Guadalcanal and Savo, U.S. Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2013 CBS receives a license to broadcast a color TV signal.<\/p>\n
1968 \u2013 NASA launches Apollo 7 the first manned mission after the Apollo 1 disaster.<\/p>\n
1971 \u2013 Retired Lieutenant General Lewis ‘Chesty’ Puller USMC, recipient of 5 Navy Crosses, in addition to the Army’s Distinguished Service Cross, dies in Hampton, Virginia, age 73<\/p>\n
1976 \u2013 George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies. Technically 0<\/span><\/strong>–12<\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger<\/em>, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile) arsenals in Europe.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery <\/em>on mission STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 “Flying Tiger” and U.S. Army Air Force fighter pilot, retired Brigadier General David Lee “Tex” Hill, dies at age 92 in Terrell Hills, Texas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 11 1614 \u2013 The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States. 1767 \u2013 Surveying for the Mason\u2013Dixon line, separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. 1776 \u2013 During the Revolution, a fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is … 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-60570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60570","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=60570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96745,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60570\/revisions\/96745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}