Today, January 12<\/p>\n
1616 \u2013 Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco founds the city of Bel\u00e9m, Brazil on the Amazon River delta.<\/p>\n
1792 \u2013 President Washington appoints Thomas Pinckney as the first U.S. minister to Britain.<\/p>\n
1915 \u2013 The United States House of Representatives rejects a bill to require states to give women the right to vote.<\/p>\n
1932 \u2013 Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013President Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board<\/p>\n
1962 \u2013 U.S. Army piloted helicopters transport a battalion of South Vietnam Army troops on an assault against a Vietcong stronghold during Operation Chopper, the first major U.S. combat mission in the war<\/p>\n
1966 \u2013 President Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2013 Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 The U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2013 NASA launches the Deep Impact<\/em> probe to study comet 9P\/Tempel 1 by shooting a 220 lb copper impactor that, at a impact velocity of 33,400 fps hit the comet with a kinetic energy of over 5 tons of TNT.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, January 12 1616 \u2013 Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco founds the city of Bel\u00e9m, Brazil on the Amazon River delta. 1792 \u2013 President Washington appoints Thomas Pinckney as the first U.S. minister to Britain. 1915 \u2013 The United States House of Representatives rejects a bill to require states to give women the right … 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-63800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800","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=63800"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89215,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800\/revisions\/89215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}