April 16<\/p>\n
1457 BC \u2013 At the valley of Megiddo, Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh engage in a battle considered\u00a0the first be accepted as recorded in reliable detail<\/p>\n
73 \u2013 Masada, a Jewish fortress on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the 1st Jewish\u2013Roman War.<\/p>\n
1582 \u2013 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.<\/p>\n
1746 \u2013 The Battle of Culloden is fought between the Jacobite Stuarts and the British Hanoverian forces. After the battle, many Highland traditions are banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants with many clan members moved to North America.<\/p>\n
1818 \u2013 Following the end of The War of 1812, the U.S. Senate ratifies the Rush\u2013Bagot Treaty<\/em>, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 During the Civil War, the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act<\/em>, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 The Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 First made by him in 1938 during experiments with ergot fungus found on grain,\u00a0 Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide\u00a0 – LSD.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 U.S. Army troops liberate Nazi prisoner of war camp Offizierslager IV-C at Castle Colditz.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 An explosion on board the French registered vessel SS Grandcamp<\/em> at Port of Texas City, Texas, Galveston Bay, causes the city to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist\u2013Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail<\/em> while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 Apollo 16 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with astronauts 1990 \u2013 “Doctor Death”, Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide, aiding Janet Elaine Adkins in a campground near Pontiac, Michigan.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013\u00a0 Seung-Hui Cho,\u00a0 previously diagnosed with severe depression, uses two handguns to shoot and kill 32 people and wound 17 more at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, before committing suicide.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 In the case of Baze v.<\/em> Rees, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that execution by lethal injection does not violate the 8th Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 16 1457 BC \u2013 At the valley of Megiddo, Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh engage in a battle considered\u00a0the first be accepted as recorded in reliable detail 73 \u2013 Masada, a Jewish fortress on the … 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-66890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66890","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=66890"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91884,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66890\/revisions\/91884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJohn Young, Thomas ‘Ken’ Mattingly and Charley Duke aboard.<\/p>\n