December 18<\/p>\n
1118 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the city of Zaragoza is retaken by the army of King Alfonso I of Aragon.<\/p>\n
1271 \u2013 Kublai Khan renames his empire of Mongolia and China “Yuan” starting the Yuan dynasty .<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 The U.S. celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by Americans over British troops commanded by General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.<\/p>\n
1787 \u2013 New Jersey becomes the 3rd state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n
1799 – George Washington is buried at Mount Vernon<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the 13th\u00a0 Amendment to the Constitution.<\/p>\n
1892 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker <\/em>opens in Saint Petersburg, Russia.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 The 18th amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game held to break a tie in the season’s final standings to win the NFL Championship at Chicago.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 In the case of Korematsu v. United States<\/em>, the Supreme Court rules that President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066<\/em> authorizing the forced removal and internment of Japanese Americans is constitutional and is not reversed as unconstitutional until 2018, in the case of Trump v. Hawaii.<\/em><\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 Designed and built by\u00a0 U.S. Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory,\u00a0 the SCORE <\/em>satellite–<\/em>Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment –<\/em> the world’s first purpose built communications satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral’s launch complex\u00a0 LC-11<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 The Saturn moon Epimetheus<\/em> is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker using the U.S. Naval Observatory – Flagstaff Station’s 61-inch Kaj Strand Astrometric Reflector telescope.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013\u00a0 President Nixon announces that the U.S. will begin Operation Linebacker II, bombing North Vietnam after peace talks collapse.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 United Airlines Cargo Flight 2860,\u00a0 a Douglas DC-8, enroute from San Francisco to Chicago, crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all 3 crew members on board.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 NASA launches into orbit the Terra<\/em> platform carrying 5 Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS<\/em> and MOPITT.<\/em><\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Zsa Zsa Gabor dies, age 99, from cardiac arrest at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derails near DuPont, Washington, killing 6 people, and injuring 70 others.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 The House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 18 1118 \u2013 During the Reconquista, the city of Zaragoza is retaken by the army of King Alfonso I of Aragon. 1271 \u2013 Kublai Khan renames his empire of Mongolia and China “Yuan” starting the Yuan dynasty . 1777 \u2013 The U.S. celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by Americans over British … 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-62985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62985","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=62985"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98658,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62985\/revisions\/98658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}