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1682 \u2013 Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims the area for France and names it Louisiana in honor of King Louis IV<\/p>\n
1768 \u2013 When customs agents board to search John Hancock’s ship Lydia<\/em> in Boston Harbor since he had a reputation for smuggling, he has them forced off since they did not have a warrant for the search. By many, this is considered the first act of actual resistance to British authority in the colonies and initiating the Revolution.<\/p>\n 1784 \u2013 The Treaty of Paris, ratified by Congress on January 14, is ratified by King George III of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 Meeting with General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 The U.S. Congress passes the Payne\u2013Aldrich Tariff Act,<\/em> raising certain tariffs on goods entering the country.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 Meeting with General Kameichiro Nagano, General Edward P. King surrenders the U.S and Filipino forces on the Bataan peninsula.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 The Glazier\u2013Higgins\u2013Woodward tornado outbreak kills 181 people and injures 970 more across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013Riots break out when socialist presidential candidate Jorge Eli\u00e9cer Gait\u00e1n is assassinated in Bogot\u00e1, Columbia.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 NASA announces the selection of the first 7 astronauts for project Mercury.<\/em><\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 The first Boeing 737 makes its maiden flight.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The first British built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 About 110 nautical miles southwest of Sasebo, Japan, in the East China Sea, the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine USS George Washington<\/em> accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru<\/em>, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing 2 Japanese sailors.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, enroute from Gadsden, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia,\u00a0collides in midair with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna’s occupants with the Embraer returning safely to Gadsden.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is found guilty in U.S. federal court of drug and racketeering charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 A student\u00a0 at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania knifes 20 other students and a security guard before being subdued by an assistant principal, aided by another student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 9 1682 \u2013 Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims the area for France and names it Louisiana in honor of King Louis IV 1768 \u2013 When customs agents board to search John Hancock’s ship Lydia in Boston Harbor since he had a reputation for smuggling, he has … 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-66639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639","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=66639"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91647,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639\/revisions\/91647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}