Today, January 8<\/p>\n
1297 \u2013 Forces under Fran\u00e7ois Grimaldi, the ruling family of Monaco still to date, capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco.<\/p>\n
1790 \u2013 As required by the U.S. Constitution, George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to Congress in New York City, at the time, the provisional capital.<\/p>\n
1815 \u2013 Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans<\/p>\n
1828 \u2013 The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.<\/p>\n
1835 \u2013 President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to Zero<\/em> for the first and only time.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 Confederate forces from Arkansas under Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke engage Union forces under Brigadier General Egbert Brown in house to house fighting in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Union supply depot at Springfield, Missouri.<\/p>\n 1877 \u2013 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors led by Crazy Horse and Two Moon engage in their last battle against the U. S. Army in an unsuccessful attack on troops under Colonel Nelson A. Miles at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 Herman Hollerith is issued a US patent for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’;\u00a0 a punch card calculator.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 5 U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani tribe in Ecuador shortly after making first contact.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States. (As we can see, it’s been a utter failure, actually causing more problems than Johnson proclaimed to want to solve)<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The trial of 7 men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate office complex begins<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 After being sued by the U. S. government, AT&T agrees to a consent decree, divesting itself of 22 subsidiary operating companies taking effect at the end of the next year.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.<\/em> ( Another failure that was so bad, the law was repealed in 2015)<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Air Midwest Flight 5481, a Beechcraft 1900D, crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 The nuclear sub USS San Francisco<\/em> collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 Federal Judge John Roll, along with 5 others are killed and 18 more, including Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, are wounded by a literal madman in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, January 8 1297 \u2013 Forces under Fran\u00e7ois Grimaldi, the ruling family of Monaco still to date, capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco. 1790 \u2013 As required by the U.S. Constitution, George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to Congress in New York City, at the time, the provisional capital. … 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-63676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63676","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=63676"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89146,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63676\/revisions\/89146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}