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1529 \u2013 Accepted by many as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, a group of rulers and independent cities protests<\/strong><\/em> the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms after the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 At Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts militia confront British troops marching to confiscate arms and military supplies.<\/p>\n 1782 \u2013 John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.<\/p>\n 1818 \u2013 French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary “Note on the Theory of Diffraction” . The document ends with a set of mathematical equations now called the Fresnel Integrals which leads to the development of the Fresnel lens, a flat, thin, compact, more powerful and less expensive refractive lens.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013In Baltimore, Maryland, a group of pro-Secession protesters attacks U.S. Army troops marching through the city.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 In Warsaw, Poland, the Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews and holding off the Nazi force for nearly a month using only a handful of weapons.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Charles Manson is sentenced to death, which is later commuted to life imprisonment, for conspiracy in the Tate\u2013LaBianca murders.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 200 ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord<\/em> near Three Brothers, Arkansas<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Aboard the USS Iowa<\/em>, an explosion of the center 16 inch gun in Gun Turret 2, kills all 47 sailors in the turret.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 The 51 day siege by the FBI of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including 18 children under the age of 10, die in the fire.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013\u00a0 In retaliation for the siege of the Branch Davidian compound, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, is bombed, killing 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 In the city suburb of Watertown, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 The Ingenuity<\/em> helicopter flies off NASA’s\u00a0Perseverance<\/em> Mars rover becomes the first aircraft to achieve powered independent flight on another planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 19 1529 \u2013 Accepted by many as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, a group of rulers and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms after the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism. 1775 \u2013 At Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts militia confront British troops marching to confiscate arms and military supplies. … 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-66957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957","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=66957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91950,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957\/revisions\/91950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}