October 15<\/p>\n
1066 \u2013 Following the death of Harold at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the \u00c6theling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan, but is never crowned before William of Normandy claims the throne.<\/p>\n
1529 \u2013 The First<\/em> Siege of Vienna ends with Austrian troops routing the invading Ottoman forces.<\/p>\n 1582 \u2013 The states of the Holy Roman Empire replace the Julian Calendar with the Gregorian version<\/p>\n 1783 \u2013 The Montgolfier brother’s hot air balloon makes the first ascent with a human pilot; Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pil\u00e2tre de Rozier aboard.<\/p>\n 1793 \u2013 Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.<\/p>\n 1815 \u2013 Napoleon begins his second and final exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley<\/em>, sinks during a second test run, this time killing its inventor along with the rest of the 8 man crew.<\/p>\n 1878 \u2013 The Edison Electric Light Company is incorporated in New York.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013\u00a0Margaretha “Mata Hari” MacLeod is executed by France for espionage.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 The German airship D-LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin<\/em> completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 The New York Municipal Airport, later renamed LaGuardia Airport<\/em>\u00a0is dedicated.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is executed for treason.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 Hermann G\u00f6ring escapes the hangman by taking cyanide.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 Hurricane Hazel<\/em> strikes the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 people and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 A coup d’\u00e9tat in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and starts the Salvadoran Civil War.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 NASA\u00a0 launches the Cassini\u2013Huygens<\/em> probe from Cape Canaveral to study Saturn, its rings and moons.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 A 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Kiholo Bay, Hawaii, causing a small tsunami, over $200 million in property damage and injuring a few people.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 13 year old Jayme Closs is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents are murdered by Jake Patterson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 15 1066 \u2013 Following the death of Harold at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the \u00c6theling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan, but is never crowned before William of Normandy claims the throne. 1529 \u2013 The First Siege of Vienna ends with Austrian troops routing the invading Ottoman forces. 1582 \u2013 The … 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-60741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741","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=60741"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96826,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60741\/revisions\/96826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}