1431<\/b> — In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France. (Weird)<\/p>\n
1787<\/b> — Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n
1917<\/b> — The United States declared war on Austria-Hungary. (Thankfully, that was the war to end all wars.)<\/p>\n
1926<\/b> — The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.<\/p>\n
1941<\/b> — The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Be sure to read today’s piece by Chuck Colson<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n 1972<\/b> — Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission. <\/p>\n 1992<\/b> — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Mississippi abortion law which required women to get counseling and then wait 24 hours before terminating their pregnancies.<\/p>\n 1998<\/b> — The U.N. evacuated 14 peacekeepers that were trapped by fighting between army and rebel forces in central Angola. (“There’s no peace to keep here — get us out!”)<\/p>\n 1998<\/b> — U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing. (I wonder if Alberto Gonzalez ever thought of her “luck”?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1431 — In Paris, Henry VI of England was crowned King of France. (Weird) 1787 — Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1917 — The United States declared war on Austria-Hungary. (Thankfully, that was the war to end all wars.) 1926 — The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux … 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":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-this-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-8b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}