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614 \u2013 After the Synod of Paris ends,\u00a0King Chlothar II seals the Edict of Paris –Edictum Chlotacharii<\/em> – putting into effect an early declaration conceding and defending rights of the Frankish nobles, over 600 years before Magna Carta<\/em> was signed in England.<\/p>\n 1009 \u2013 The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem\u00a0 is completely destroyed by caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah<\/p>\n 1540 \u2013 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto’s forces destroy the town of Mabila in present day Alabama, killing Chief Tuskaloosa.<\/p>\n 1597 \u2013 King Philip II of Spain send his naval Armada against England for the 3rd – and last – time, but again it ends in failure, this time due to storms scattering the fleet, with half of the ships being captured or sunk by the English fleet.<\/p>\n 1599 \u2013 Warlords of ancient Wallachia, Michael the Brave’s forces defeat the those of Andrew B\u00e1thory in battle near the village of \u0218elimb\u0103r, in central Hungary, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.<\/p>\n 1648 \u2013 Boston shoemakers form the \u201cCompany of Shoomakers\u201d, the first American labor organization.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 A British navy fleet bombards and invades Falmouth (now Portland) Maine, burning over 400 houses and other buildings in the city before leaving.<\/p>\n 1779 \u2013 A combined French-American force fails to retake the British occupied city of Savannah, Georgia, with the British remaining in control until 1782.<\/p>\n 1851 \u2013 Herman Melville’s book Moby-Dick<\/em> is published as The Whale<\/em> by Richard Bentley of London.<\/p>\n 1867 \u2013 After purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million, the U.S. takes possession of Alaska<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 Under terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898, ending the Spanish\u2013American War, the United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 The British Broadcasting Company is founded.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 Thomas Edison dies, age 84, at his home, “Glenmont” in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey,<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The Russians receive plans for the United States plutonium ‘Fat Man’ bomb from spy Klaus Fuchs employed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio, the Regency TR-1<\/em><\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch make the first all-female spacewalk from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 General, retired,\u00a0 Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, dies, age 84, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 18 614 \u2013 After the Synod of Paris ends,\u00a0King Chlothar II seals the Edict of Paris –Edictum Chlotacharii – putting into effect an early declaration conceding and defending rights of the Frankish nobles, over 600 years before Magna Carta was signed in England. 1009 \u2013 The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem\u00a0 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-60836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60836","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=60836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96900,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60836\/revisions\/96900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}