July 29<\/p>\n
587 BC \u2013 The Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar the Great, sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.<\/p>\n
904 \u2013After a short siege, moslem saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire’s second largest city, and plunder it for a week.<\/p>\n
1148 \u2013 The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.<\/p>\n
1567 \u2013 The 4 year old James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013\u00a0 General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army which is considered the founding of the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps<\/p>\n
1858 \u2013 On board the USS Powhatan<\/em> in Tokyo Bay, emissaries of the U.S. and Japan sign the Harris Treaty,<\/em> regulating trade and legal rights of U.S. citizens in Japan.<\/p>\n 1871 \u2013 The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 The First Hague Convention, which a part of is the ban on the use of expanding and soft point bullets, is signed.<\/p>\n 1907 \u2013 Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England which is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 Professor Irwin Corey is born in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the NA<\/strong><\/span>tionalsoZI<\/strong><\/span>alistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei <\/em>(National Socialist German Workers Party)<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The Tonight Show – Tonight Starring Jack Paar premieres on NBC with the host beginning the modern day talk show.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 President Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act<\/em>, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 The first congressional elections are held in Hawaii as a state of the Union.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The first 4,000 troops of the\u00a0 101st Airborne Division arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay, beginning the increase of forces ordered the day before by President Johnson.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal<\/em> catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134 crewmembers<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving 500 people dead.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the “Son of Sam”) kills 1 person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of shootings.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory, California announce their discovery of 2 dwarf planets in the solar system officially named Eris<\/em> and Makemake<\/em><\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 The International Space Station temporarily spins out of control, moving\u00a0 45 degrees out of attitude, following an engine malfunction of Russian module Nauka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 29 587 BC \u2013 The Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar the Great, sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple. 904 \u2013After a short siege, moslem saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire’s second largest city, and plunder it for a week. 1148 \u2013 The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive … 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-70242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70242","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=70242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94751,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70242\/revisions\/94751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}