June 17<\/p>\n
1462 \u2013 One of the warlords of ancient Wallachia, Vlad III \u021aepe\u0219 Dracula the Impaler, attempts to assassinate the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II, at T\u00e2rgovi\u015fte, Romania but the Sultan and his army manage to escape and hastily retreat back to Turkey.<\/p>\n
1579 \u2013 On his voyage of circumnavigation, Sir Francis Drake claims the land he calls Nova Albio<\/em>n – modern California – for England.<\/p>\n 1631 \u2013 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, builds a mausoleum for her tomb, the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n 1773 \u2013 C\u00facuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cu\u00e9llar.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 During the siege of Boston, Colonial Militia defending Breed’s Hill,\u00a0 on the Charlestown peninsula across the Charles river from Boston, inflict heavy casualties on assaulting British troops before running out of ammunition, and being forced to a fighting retreat in good order over Bunker Hill to Cambridge, leave the British in control of the peninsula.<\/p>\n 1876 \u20131,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by War Chief T\u0127<\/span>a\u0161\u00fa\u014bke Witk\u00f3 – Crazy Horse – repulse an attack by\u00a0 General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.<\/p>\n 1877 \u2013 The Nez Perce inflict serious casualties, killing 34 of the 106 troopers and civilian volunteers of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Regiment in the first battle of the Nez Perce War at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory, southwest of the present day city of Grangeville.<\/p>\n 1885 \u2013 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot\u2013Hawley Tariff Act<\/em> into law.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 Around 1000 World War I veterans, called the Bonus Army, amass at the United States Capitol as the Senate considers a bill that would give them certain bonus benefits earlier than originally promised<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 At the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, 4 FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, en route from Chicago to LaGuardia Airport in New York City, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 passengers and crew on board.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres\u00a0 of land undervalued at 4\u00a2 an acre in the 1863 treaty.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Abington School District v. Schempp, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 5 White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 Space Shuttle\u00a0Discovery <\/em>is launched on mission STS-51-G with Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud aboard as a payload specialist, the first Arab and first moslem in space.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 A “joint understanding” agreement on arms reduction, later codified as START II, is signed by President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Following a televised low speed\/high drag highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 9 people are killed and 3 wounded in a shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 President Biden signs legislation enacting June 19th as the Juneteenth National Independence Day federal holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 17 1462 \u2013 One of the warlords of ancient Wallachia, Vlad III \u021aepe\u0219 Dracula the Impaler, attempts to assassinate the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II, at T\u00e2rgovi\u015fte, Romania but the Sultan and his army manage to escape and hastily retreat back to Turkey. 1579 \u2013 On his voyage of circumnavigation, Sir Francis Drake claims the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471","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=68471"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93648,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471\/revisions\/93648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}