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534 BC \u2013 Thespis of Icaria becomes the first actor on record to portray a character on stage, and later has the things relating to the acting arts named after him – Thespian.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 1248 \u2013\u00a0 Troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile conquer Seville during the Reconquista of Spain.<\/p>\n 1644 \u2013 John Milton publishes Areopagitica<\/em>, a pamphlet decrying censorship in England<\/p>\n 1876 \u2013 Tammany Hall leader, William “Boss” Tweed arrives in New York City, under arrest for bribery, contract kickbacks and embezzlement, after being extradited from Spain.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 The last U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, Mexico occupied 6 months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair, an incident when U.S. sailors were detained by Mexican forces of General Huerta during the Mexican Revolution.<\/p>\n 1924 \u2013 Edwin Hubble’s discovery that the Andromeda nebula is actually another “island galaxy” far outside of our own was first published in The New York Times.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Despite heavy casualties, the battles for the Tarawa and Makin atolls end in U.S. victories against the forces of Imperial Japan.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who<\/em><\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 French free diver Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 meters undersea without breathing equipment.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 President Reagan signs National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the CIA authority to recruit and support anti-Communist ‘Contra’ rebels in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon<\/em>, is introduced at the COMDEX, a computer expo trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 Blue Origin’s New Shepard<\/em> spacecraft becomes the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 23 534 BC \u2013 Thespis of Icaria becomes the first actor on record to portray a character on stage, and later has the things relating to the acting arts named after him – Thespian.\u00a0 1248 \u2013\u00a0 Troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile conquer Seville during the Reconquista of Spain. 1644 \u2013 John Milton … 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-62055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055","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=62055"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97957,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055\/revisions\/97957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}