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1496 \u2013 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore “part[s] of the world placed, which before this time were unknown to all Christians.<\/em>” which lead to his voyages to North America.<\/p>\n 1616 \u2013 Nicolaus Copernicus’ book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium – <\/em>On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres – explaining his theory that the Sun is at the center of the universe, (a better, but still not perfect idea than that the Earth<\/em> was at the center) is added to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum –<\/em> Index of Forbidden Books – by the Roman Catholic Curia, 73 years after it was first published<\/p>\n 1770 \u2013 5 Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the “Boston Massacre”.<\/p>\n 1836 \u2013 Under American patent #138, Samuel Colt’s Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey, is chartered by the New Jersey legislature.<\/p>\n 1872 \u2013 George Westinghouse patents the air brake.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 The prototype Supermarine Spitfire<\/em> – K5054 – is flown for the first time.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 The Gloster Meteor<\/em>, Britain’s first combat jet aircraft is flown for the first time.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 Winston Churchill coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons<\/em> goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Occupied since October of the previous year during the Yom Kippur War,\u00a0 Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 5 1496 \u2013 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore “part[s] of the world placed, which before this time were unknown to all Christians.” which lead to his voyages to North America. 1616 \u2013 Nicolaus Copernicus’ book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium – On … 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-65461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65461","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=65461"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90521,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65461\/revisions\/90521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}