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69 \u2013 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors<\/em> where the preceding 3 were either murdered or committed suicide during a civil war among themselves after they had deposed Emperor Nero.<\/p>\n 1361 \u2013 During the Spanish Reconquista, the combined army of the Kingdom of Castile and of the Bishop of Ja\u00e9n defeat the forces of the Emirate of Granada in battle at the city of Huesa.<\/p>\n 1605 – The Spanish Queir\u00f3s Expedition departs Callao, Peru, led by Pedro Fernandes de Queir\u00f3s in attempt to find the legendary continent Terra Australis<\/em> but instead reaching Esp\u00edritu Santo and other Vanuatu islands.<\/p>\n 1620 \u2013 William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n 1784 – In office as Chief Justice of the U.S. for only the past 2 months,\u00a0 John Jay is also appointed U.S. Secretary of State.<\/p>\n 1826 \u2013 American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor<\/em>, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n 1872 \u2013\u00a0 The crew of HMS Challenger<\/em> sails from Portsmouth, England on their voyage of exploration.<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 Arthur Wynne’s “word-cross”, is the first crossword puzzle published in the New York World newspaper.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,<\/em> the world’s first full length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 General George S. Patton dies in Heidelberg, Germany, age 60, 12 days after being injured in an automobile accident.<\/p>\n 1949 – The movie, Samson and Delilah<\/em>, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human to human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the operation<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to the Moon.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 The first flight of Grumman F-14 Tomcat<\/em> Navy fighter<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 A bomb placed by Libyan moslem terrorists explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew aboard and 11 more on the ground.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 A suicide bomber kills 14 U.S. soldiers, 4 U.S. citizen Halliburton employees, 4\u00a0\u00a0allied Iraqi soldiers and wounds 72 more at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 21 69 \u2013 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors where the preceding 3 were either murdered or committed suicide during a civil war among themselves after they had deposed Emperor Nero. 1361 \u2013 During the Spanish Reconquista, the combined army of the Kingdom … 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-63119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63119","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=63119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98722,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63119\/revisions\/98722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}