December 12<\/p>\n
1098 – After their success of taking and defending Antioch, forces of the First Crusade besiege the city of Ma’arra in modern Syria.<\/p>\n
1787 \u2013 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 The City<\/em>-Class ironclad USS Cairo<\/em> strikes a Confederate naval mine and sinks on the Yazoo River.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town, Nebraska as a farm village for wayward boys<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 Japanese aircraft bomb and sink the U.S. gunboat USS Panay<\/em> on the Yangtze river in China<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 Jes\u00fas Villamor and 4 other Filipino pilots, flying Boeing P-26 ‘Peashooters<\/em>‘ of the 6th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the United States Army Forces in the Far East Air Force, fend off 54 Japanese A6M Zero<\/em> fighters raiding Batangas Field, Philippines.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 An earthquake of 8.2 magnitude occurs just offshore from the border between Ecuador and Colombia, near the port city of Tumaco, with Columbia’s Nari\u00f1o Department on its southern Pacific coast border, hardest hit.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division returning from a peace keeping deployment in the Sanai.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 In the case of Bush v. Gore, <\/em>the Supreme Court ends the legal question of which candidate won the election in Florida, finding for George Bush<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 12 1098 – After their success of taking and defending Antioch, forces of the First Crusade besiege the city of Ma’arra in modern Syria. 1787 \u2013 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1862 \u2013 The City-Class ironclad USS Cairo strikes a Confederate naval mine and sinks on the Yazoo River. … 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-62727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62727","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=62727"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98471,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62727\/revisions\/98471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}