October 17<\/p>\n
1448 \u2013 Starting a crusade revolt against the moslem Ottoman rule in the Balkans, John Hunyadi of Hungary joins with forces with some leaders in Albania, Serbia and Bosnia and engage the army of Sultan Murad II in central Kosovo but suffer a devastating defeat leading to the Ottomans ruing over all states in the Balkans for many centuries.<\/p>\n
1771 \u2013 At age 15, Wolfgang Mozart premiers his 2nd<\/em> <\/strong>opera, Ascanio in Alba<\/em>, in Milan.<\/p>\n 1777 \u2013 British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.<\/p>\n 1781 \u2013 British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders his army at the Siege of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War in\u00a0 North America.<\/p>\n 1811 \u2013 Silver is discovered in the Atacama region of Chile becoming the financial backing for the Chilean War of Independence.<\/p>\n 1850 \u2013 moslems begin a series of riots in Aleppo, Syria lasting until early November, killing over 5000 Christians.<\/p>\n 1907 \u2013 The Marconi Company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.<\/p>\n 1912 \u2013 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 Alphonse Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 While still technically a neutral power, the destroyer USS Kearny <\/em>becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel attacked during World War II, suffering heavy damage from a torpedo fired from a German U-Boat being depth charged by the vessel off Iceland.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The New York World’s Fair closes after 2 years and more than 51 million attendees.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 The 23rd Street Fire in in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan,\u00a0New York City kills 12 firefighters, the department’s highest loss until 9\/11.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The Department of Education Organization Act<\/em> creates the U.S. Department of Education.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake of the San Andreas Fault, near Mount Loma Prieta, strikes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63 people and causing over $6 billion in damage.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world’s tallest high-rise.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 Heavily armed gangsters of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel force the Mexican government in Culiac\u00e1n province to release the son of former cartel boss ‘El Chapo’ Guzm\u00e1n after his arrest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 17 1448 \u2013 Starting a crusade revolt against the moslem Ottoman rule in the Balkans, John Hunyadi of Hungary joins with forces with some leaders in Albania, Serbia and Bosnia and engage the army of Sultan Murad II in central Kosovo but suffer a devastating defeat leading to the Ottomans ruing over all states … 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-60820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60820","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=60820"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96874,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60820\/revisions\/96874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}