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1612- Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realizing it is planet Neptune<\/p>\n
1732 – Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders begins publication of “Poor Richard’s Almanack<\/em>”<\/p>\n 1832 \u2013 After being elected Senator from South Carolina, John C. Calhoun becomes the 1st Vice President of the United States to resign.<\/p>\n 1835 \u2013 Osceola leads the Seminoles into the 2nd Seminole War against the United States.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1895 \u2013 Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen publishes a paper in the journal of the W\u00fcrzburg Physical Medical Society, about his discovery in November of a new type of radiation. Since it was of a type unknown to him, he refers to it as X<\/strong> radiation, which radiated X<\/strong>-rays.<\/em><\/p>\n 1902 \u2013 The Syracuse Athletic Club defeat the New York Philadelphians, 5\u20130, in the first indoor professional football game, held at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n 1912 \u2013 San Francisco starts the first municipal owned streetcar service<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 The Airborne Transport Airlines DC-3 NC16002 enroute from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, with 32 passengers and crew aboard disappears after the pilot’s last radio contact, some 50 mi south of Miami within the ‘Bermuda Triangle’<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The Endangered Species Act<\/em> is signed into law by President Nixon.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 United Airlines Flight 173, a McDonnell Douglas DC, runs out of fuel on final approach to landing and crashes in a residential neighborhood near Portland International Airport, killing 10 of the 189 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1987 – After earlier shooting, strangling and drowning 14 relatives at his home near Dover, Arkansas, Ronald Gene Simmons, shoots and kills 2 and wounds 4 more people at former places of employment before surrendering to police. Later he is sentenced to death and executed in 1990.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 Clayton “The Lone Ranger” Moore, dies, age 85 at West Hills Hospital, California.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 Former Senator Harry Reid, dies, age 82, at his home in Henderson, Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 28 1612- Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realizing it is planet Neptune 1732 – Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders begins publication of “Poor Richard’s Almanack” 1832 \u2013 After being elected Senator from South Carolina, John C. Calhoun becomes the 1st Vice President of the United States to resign. 1835 … 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-63325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63325","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=63325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98860,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63325\/revisions\/98860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}