December 29<\/p>\n
1170 \u2013 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II<\/p>\n
1607 \u2013 According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to kill him.<\/p>\n
1778 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, 3000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 The USS Constitution<\/em>, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java<\/em> off the coast of Brazil<\/p>\n 1835 \u2013 The Treaty of New Echota<\/em> is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee tribe east of the Mississippi River to the United States.<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 In accordance with the International Boundary Delimitation,<\/em> the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine and is admitted as the 28th state.<\/p>\n 1876 \u2013 A railroad bridge over the Ashtabula River northeast of Cleveland collapses while the Pacific Express of the <\/em>Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway passes over it, killing 92 of the 160 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1890 \u2013 On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, 300 Lakota and 31 Army soldiers are killed in battle near Wounded Knee creek when the U.S. troops attempt to disarm the camp.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930 which limited construction of warships and begins to rearm.<\/p>\n 1939 – The\u00a0\u00a0prototype of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator<\/em> bomber makes its first flight.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra High Frequency television station to operate a daily schedule on UHF channel 24.<\/p>\n 1970- The Occupational Safety and Health Act<\/em> is signed into law by President Nixon, creating bureaucrapacy OSHA<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar<\/em>, crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 A bomb placed by unknown terrorists explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.<\/p>\n 2018 – The lowest recorded temperature of -111C (-167F) is registered by the NOAA-20 satellite in the western Pacific at top of a large storm system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 29 1170 \u2013 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II 1607 \u2013 According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to kill him. 1778 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, 3000 British soldiers under the … 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-63357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63357","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=63357"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98891,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63357\/revisions\/98891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}