{"id":26610,"date":"2016-04-19T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26610"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:23:08","slug":"today-in-history-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26610","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26612\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=26612\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26612\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26612\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Minute_Man_Statue_Lexington_Massachusetts-300x213.jpg?resize=300%2C213\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minuteman Statue, Lexington, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>April 19, 2016, there are 256 days left in this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1775<\/strong><br \/>\nThe &#8220;shot heard around the world&#8221; was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1824<\/strong><br \/>\nLord Byron died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1882<\/strong><br \/>\nNaturalist Charles Darwin, the developer of the theory of evolution, died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1897<\/strong><br \/>\nThe first Boston Marathon was run.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1933<\/strong><br \/>\nThe United States went off the gold standard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1943<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Warsaw ghetto uprising began one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993<\/strong><br \/>\nThe siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1995<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005<\/strong><br \/>\nGermany&#8217;s Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, 2016, there are 256 days left in this year. 1775 The &#8220;shot heard around the world&#8221; was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26614,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26610\/revisions\/26614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}