Today, January 10<\/p>\n
49 BC \u2013 In violation of Roman law, Julius Caesar, with his 13th Legion,\u00a0 crosses the Rubicon river, at the time the nation’s northern border, starting civil war.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 In Philadelphia, Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense, <\/em>which advocates independence from Great Britain for the Colonies.<\/p>\n 1791 \u2013 During the early days of the Northwest Indian War, Dunlap’s Station on the banks of the Great Miami river, about 17 miles from Cincinnati, is taken under siege by combined scouts of several indian tribes before relief troops from Fort Washington, in Cincinnati, arrive the next morning.<\/p>\n 1812 \u2013 The steamboat New Orleans <\/em>completes the first voyage on the Ohio River, and the lower Mississippi River, arriving in New Orleans 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.<\/p>\n 1920 \u2013 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 The U.S. Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua while American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the communist Nicaraguan government.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 13 year old Jayme Closs is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parent’s home after they were murdered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, January 10 49 BC \u2013 In violation of Roman law, Julius Caesar, with his 13th Legion,\u00a0 crosses the Rubicon river, at the time the nation’s northern border, starting civil war. 1776 \u2013 In Philadelphia, Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense, which advocates independence from Great Britain for the Colonies. 1791 \u2013 During 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-63740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63740","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=63740"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89179,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63740\/revisions\/89179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}