{"id":63861,"date":"2023-01-14T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63861"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T20:02:30","slug":"63861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63861","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the rest of the 21st Century, today is January 1 on the Julian Calendar, so for those still using it&#8230;<em>HAPPY NEW YEAR.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>January 14<\/p>\n<p>1539 \u2013 Spain annexes Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>1639 \u2013 The &#8220;Fundamental Orders&#8221;, the first written constitution that created a government in the colonies, is adopted in Connecticut<\/p>\n<p>1784 \u2013 The U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain, officially ending the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<p>1911 \u2013 Roald Amundsen&#8217;s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.<\/p>\n<p>1943 \u2013 While President Roosevelt and PM Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy, the Japanese concede defeat on Guadalcanal, and begin <em>Operation Ke,<\/em> the evacuation of their forces from the island<\/p>\n<p>1950 \u2013 The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.<\/p>\n<p>1954 \u2013 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form the American Motors Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>1969 \u2013 An accidental explosion of a Zuni rocket detonating under a plane&#8217;s wing aboard the carrier USS <em>Enterprise<\/em> off Hawaii causes a fire, killing 28 crewmen and injuring\u00a0 314 more.<\/p>\n<p>1973 \u2013 Elvis Presley&#8217;s concert <em>Aloha from Hawaii<\/em> is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the rest of the 21st Century, today is January 1 on the Julian Calendar, so for those still using it&#8230;HAPPY NEW YEAR. January 14 1539 \u2013 Spain annexes Cuba. 1639 \u2013 The &#8220;Fundamental Orders&#8221;, the first written constitution that created a government in the colonies, is adopted in Connecticut 1784 \u2013 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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-63861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63861","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=63861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89301,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63861\/revisions\/89301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}