October 21<\/p>\n
1096 \u2013 The Seljuk Turks defeat in detail the ‘People’s Army’ of the First Crusade at Helenopolis in Bythnia – the modern port city of Hersek, Turkey.<\/p>\n
1097 \u2013 The ‘Princes Army’ of the First Crusade, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.<\/p>\n
1512 \u2013 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.<\/p>\n
1520 \u2013 During is voyage of circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait near the lower end of South America now named after him and makes preparations to transit it by sending one of his ships to scout ahead.<\/p>\n
1774 \u2013 The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word “Liberty”.<\/p>\n
1797 \u2013 The 44 gun U. S. Navy frigate USS Constitution<\/em> is launched.<\/p>\n 1854 \u2013 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops at Ball’s Bluff Virgini, in the second major battle of the war.<\/p>\n 1867 \u2013 The Medicine Lodge Treaty<\/em> is signed by the southern great plains tribes; Kiowa, Comanche, Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho, requiring them to relocate to reservations in western Oklahoma.<\/p>\n 1879 \u2013 Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.<\/p>\n 1892 \u2013 Opening ceremonies for the World’s Columbian Exposition, a world fair celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovery of the New World are held in Chicago.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 During the Allied invasion of the Phillipines at Leyte, the first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia.<\/em> 1959 \u2013 President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game during play against the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 The definition of the meter is redefined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1\/299,792,458 of a second.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers abduct American writer Edward Tracy, eventually releasing him in August 1991.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Photographs of the solar system’s dwarf planet Eris<\/em> taken in January by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in California are used to confirm its discovery.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 President Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 On a movie set in New Mexico, Alec Baldwin discharges a prop weapon, which had been loaded with live ammunition, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 21 1096 \u2013 The Seljuk Turks defeat in detail the ‘People’s Army’ of the First Crusade at Helenopolis in Bythnia – the modern port city of Hersek, Turkey. 1097 \u2013 The ‘Princes Army’ of the First Crusade, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of … 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-60945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60945","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=60945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96969,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60945\/revisions\/96969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe city of Aachen -Aix-la-Chapelle- site of Charlemagne’s Court, falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies during World War II<\/p>\n