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1606 \u2013 The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, <\/em>and Discovery<\/em> depart England carrying settlers who found Jamestown, Virginia Colony<\/p>\n 1675 \u2013 The militia of the English settlers of the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations are victorious against warriors of the Narragansett tribe during King Philip’s (Chief Metacomet ‘s Christian name) War in New England.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled “The American Crisis”<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1777 \u2013 The U.S. Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1828 \u2013 Vice President John Calhoun sparks political crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828, <\/em>\u00a0stating his view that a state has the right to reject federal law.<\/p>\n 1871\u00a0 – Albert L Jones of New York City patents corrugated paper<\/p>\n 1907 \u2013 239 coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 The BBC Empire Service, now called the World Service begins international broadcasting.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 The First Indochina War between France and the Vietnamese National Army against the Vi\u1ec7t Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam begins<\/p>\n 1950 – A Chinese invasion of Tibet forces the Tibetan spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso, Gyalwa Rinpoche, the 14th Dalai Lama, to flee Lhasa for Yadong on the Tibetan-India border<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 Apollo 17, the last manned Moon landing mission to date, returns to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, 4 miles from the recovery ship, USS Ticonderoga<\/em><\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 The Sino-British Joint Declaration<\/em>, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997 at the end of a 99 year lease, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Having not been included under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, Congress finally passes legislation recognizing the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi tribe in Athens Michigan.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013The House of Representatives votes to impeach President Bill\u00a0Clinton<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013Murdering the original driver, a moslem from Tunisia deliberately drives a truck\u00a0 into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 56 more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 19 1606 \u2013 The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found Jamestown, Virginia Colony 1675 \u2013 The militia of the English settlers of the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations are victorious against warriors of the Narragansett tribe during King … 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-63032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63032","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=63032"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98666,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63032\/revisions\/98666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}