70<\/b> — The Romans destroy the Second Temple in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1789<\/b> — In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.<\/p>\n
1792<\/b> — The revolutionaries order all houses of worship to close in France.<\/p>\n
1824<\/b> — Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks.<\/p>\n
1914<\/b> — Germany invades Belgium. The United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declares itself neutral.<\/p>\n
1944<\/b> — The Gestapo finds Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.<\/p>\n
1961<\/b><\/font> — Barack Obama is born and, despite the where<\/i> being dubious in the minds of millions, eventually becomes the 44th President of the United States. Wish him well on his birthday.<\/font> You may contact him here<\/a> or via email<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1964<\/b> — American civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. Also US destroyers USS Maddox<\/i> and USS C. Turner Joy<\/i> report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, resulting in an engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.<\/p>\n 1977<\/b> — US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.<\/p>\n 1984<\/b> — The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n 1987<\/b> — The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.<\/p>\n 2009<\/b> — National Night Out<\/a> is today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 70 — The Romans destroy the Second Temple in Jerusalem. 1789 — In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges. 1792 — The revolutionaries order all houses of worship to close in France. 1824 — Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks. 1914 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-this-day","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-r0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}