TMN STAFF<\/p>\n
May 31, there are 214 days remaining in this year.<\/p>\n
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1790- The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.<\/p>\n
1889- Heavy rains caused the South Fork Dam to collapse, sending 20 million tons of water into Johnstown, Pa. Over 2,200 people were killed and the town was nearly destroyed.<\/p>\n
1911- The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, \u201cNot even God himself could sink this ship.\u201d<\/p>\n
1961- South Africa became an independent republic.<\/p>\n
1962- Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel.<\/p>\n
1970- An earthquake in Peru left more than 50,000 dead.<\/p>\n
2004- Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.<\/p>\n
2010- Nine people are dead after an Israeli navy commando attacks a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats on their way to Gaza to provide aid and supplies for the area.<\/p>\n
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Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1819- Walt Whitman, poet<\/p>\n 1898- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman<\/p>\n 1928- Prince Rainier III, prince of Monaco, married Grace Kelly<\/p>\n 1927- Patricia Roberts Harris, former ambassador, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Health and Human Services<\/p>\n 1930- Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer<\/p>\n 1943- Joe Namath, NFL Hall of Famer<\/p>\n 1965- Brooke Shields, actress, model<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 31, there are 214 days remaining in this year. 1790- The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"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":true,"_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-27055","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\/27055","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\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27057,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions\/27057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}