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1010 \u2013 After 33 years, Abul-Q\u00e2sem Ferdowsi Tusi completes the epic poem Shahnama.<\/em><\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America<\/em>“, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.<\/p>\n 1782 \u2013 96 Christian Lenape indians are massacred at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio by Pennsylvania militia, who had mistakenly identified them as another tribe who had carried out raids into Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1817 \u2013 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 The Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the parliamentary\u00a0 cloture rule, where 60 votes can ‘limit debate’.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 The Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 The Volkswagen Type 2 “Bus” begins production.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The first U.S. combat troops, 3500 Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, are deployed to Da Nang, Vietnam<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 In Madison Square Garden, Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in a 15 round match.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The Dutch conglomerate Koninklijke Philips N.V. demonstrates the CD\u00a0 compact disc publicly for the first time.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 While addressing a convention of The National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando Florida, President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Under supervision of the U.S. led Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraq Governing Council enacts a new constitution.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777-200ER, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the fate of the flight still unknown to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 8 1010 \u2013 After 33 years, Abul-Q\u00e2sem Ferdowsi Tusi completes the epic poem Shahnama. 1775 \u2013 An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America“, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. 1782 \u2013 96 Christian Lenape … 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-65570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65570","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=65570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90599,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65570\/revisions\/90599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}