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539 BC \u2013 The army of Persia under the command of Gubaruva takes Babylon, bringing down the Babylonian empire, fulfilling the ‘writing on the wall’: \u05de\u05e0\u05d0 \u05de\u05e0\u05d0 \u05ea\u05e7\u05dc \u05d5\u05e4\u05e8\u05e1\u05d9\u05df\u00a0<\/span>Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin<\/em><\/p>\n 1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus’ first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, somewhere in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n 1692 \u2013 The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.<\/p>\n 1773 \u2013 Eastern State Hospital,\u00a0America’s first insane asylum, opens in Williamsburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n 1792 \u2013 The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.<\/p>\n 1793 \u2013 The cornerstone of Old East<\/em>, the oldest state university building in the U.S., is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n 1810 \u2013 The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.<\/p>\n 1822 \u2013 After earlier declaring Brazil’s independence from Portugal, Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed Emperor.<\/p>\n 1849 \u2013 The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by ‘The Expedition of the 20’.<\/p>\n 1870 \u2013 Robert E. Lee dies, age 63, at Lexington, Virginia of a stroke suffered 2 weeks earlier.<\/p>\n 1892 \u2013On the 400th anniversary of the Columbus expedition, President Harrison proclaims the day ‘Columbus Day’ .<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the “White House”.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 A massive forest fire in western Carlton County, Minnesota, kills 453 people, and causes over $72 million in damages.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 The “Iron Lung” negative pressure respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital on a patient suffering from polio.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 The military Alcatraz Citadel is converted to the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 U.S. Army Combat Medic Corporal Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 A windstorm resulting from Typhoon Freda<\/em> strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities, killing 46 people and causing over $230 million in damages.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 ‘Vietnamization’ of the Vietnam war continues as President Nixon announces that the U.S. will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Agnew.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 The US Navy’s Arleigh Burke<\/em> class destroyer, USS Cole<\/em> is damaged by two Al Qaida suicide bombers in the Yemeni port of Aden, during a port visit, killing 17 and wounding 39 crew members.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 In New Orleans, the Hard Rock Hotel, which is under construction, collapses, killing 2 and injuring 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 12 539 BC \u2013 The army of Persia under the command of Gubaruva takes Babylon, bringing down the Babylonian empire, fulfilling the ‘writing on the wall’: \u05de\u05e0\u05d0 \u05de\u05e0\u05d0 \u05ea\u05e7\u05dc \u05d5\u05e4\u05e8\u05e1\u05d9\u05df\u00a0Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin 1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus’ first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, somewhere in the Bahamas. 1692 \u2013 The Salem witch trials … 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-60607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60607","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=60607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96688,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60607\/revisions\/96688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}