{"id":63151,"date":"2023-12-22T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63151"},"modified":"2023-12-22T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:15:01","slug":"63151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63151","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 22<\/p>\n<p>1489 \u2013 Nearing the finish of the Reconquista , the forces of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille, seize the port city of Almer\u00eda from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII.<\/p>\n<p>1807 \u2013 Replacing the 1806 <em>Non importation Act<\/em>, the 1807<em> Embargo Act,<\/em> forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by Congress<\/p>\n<p>1891 \u2013 Asteroid <em>323 Brucia<\/em> becomes the first asteroid discovered using astrophotography by Max Wolf, at the Heidelberg University Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>1937 \u2013 The Lincoln Tunnel,\u00a0 connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, to\u00a0 Manhattan opens to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>1944 \u2013 German troops surrounding U.S. troops in and around Bastogne, Belgium, receive a one word reply to their surrender demand from the American commander, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe; <em><strong>&#8220;Nuts!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nElsewhere; <em>Supported by the American OSS<\/em>, the People&#8217;s Army of Vietnam is formed by H\u1ed3 Ch\u00ed Minh and V\u00f5 Nguy\u00ean Gi\u00e1p to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina.<\/p>\n<p>1964 \u2013 The SR-71 <em>Blackbird<\/em> makes its first test flight at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.<\/p>\n<p>1975 \u2013 President Ford creates the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to the 1973 oil embargo by the arabian members of\u00a0 OPEC.<\/p>\n<p>1984 \u2013 Bernhard Goetz shoots four muggers on an express train in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>1989 \u2013 The Brandenburg Gate reopens, ending the division of East and West Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>1996 \u2013 Airborne Express Flight 827, a Douglas DC-8, crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all 6 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n<p>2001 \u2013 Aboard American Airlines Flight 63, Richard Reid attempts to destroy the airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes and is &#8216;subdued&#8217; by passengers when the bomb fails to go off.<\/p>\n<p>2008 \u2013 An ash dike ruptures at a waste retaining pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority&#8217;s Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing over 1 billion gallons of coal fly ash slurry into the Emory and Clinch Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 The repeal of the &#8216;<em>Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell<\/em>&#8216; policy, the 17 year old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, enacted by President Bill Clinton, is signed into law by President Barack Hussein Obama.<br \/>\nJust me, but I see a connection here. Could it be<em> demoncraps<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>2018 \u2013 A tsunami caused by an eruption of Anak Krakatau, part of the remains of Krakatoa, kills 430 people and injures many more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 22 1489 \u2013 Nearing the finish of the Reconquista , the forces of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille, seize the port city of Almer\u00eda from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII. 1807 \u2013 Replacing the 1806 Non importation Act, the 1807 Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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-63151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151","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=63151"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98737,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63151\/revisions\/98737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}