Today, January 3<\/p>\n
1521 \u2013 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.<\/em><\/p>\n 1749 \u2013 New Hampshire Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.<\/p>\n 1777 \u2013 The Colonial Army under General Washington defeats General Cornwallis’ rearguard under Colonel Charles Mawhood at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Delaware votes not<\/em> to secede from the United States<\/p>\n 1870 \u2013 Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 Proceedings of Congress are televised for the first time.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Alaska enters the Union as the 49th state<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 The SL-1 nuclear reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station,\u00a0 \u00a0west of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is destroyed by a steam explosion, killing all 3 of the operating technicians on duty, the only reactor incident in the U.S. to cause immediate fatalities.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Under siege in his estancia in Panama City, Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 CommutAir Flight 4281, a Beechcraft 1900,\u00a0 crashes on approach to Adirondack Regional Airport, in Saranac Lake, New York, killing 1 passenger and the co-pilot of the 4 people aboard.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 In Moscow, President Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 The Mars Polar Lander<\/em> is launched by NASA.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 The first block of Bitcoin is established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is killed by an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, January 3 1521 \u2013 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. 1749 \u2013 New Hampshire Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont. 1777 \u2013 The Colonial Army under General Washington defeats General Cornwallis’ rearguard under Colonel Charles … 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-63505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505","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=63505"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89002,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505\/revisions\/89002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}