{"id":31385,"date":"2017-02-28T05:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31385"},"modified":"2017-02-28T05:54:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T11:54:58","slug":"today-in-history-352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31385","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">February 28<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">1784<\/p>\n<p>John Wesley issues \u201cDeed of Declaration\u201d formally establishing the Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>1849<\/p>\n<p>The steamship California landed in San Francisco, bringing the first East Coasters to the Gold Rush.<\/p>\n<p>1916<\/p>\n<p>Henry James, American novelist and critic, died.<\/p>\n<p>1948<\/p>\n<p>The last British troops left India.<\/p>\n<p>1953<\/p>\n<p>James Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix.<\/p>\n<p>1983<\/p>\n<p>The final episode of M*A*S*H aired. It was the most watched television program in history.<\/p>\n<p>1986<\/p>\n<p>Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>1993<\/p>\n<p>Four federal agents were killed in Waco, Texas, after they tried to serve an arrest warrant for weapons charges on Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Birthdays<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Michel de Montaigne<br \/>\nessayist (1533)<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur<br \/>\nphysicist and naturalist (1683)<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Mary Lyon<br \/>\neducator (1797)<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Ben Hecht<br \/>\nwriter (1894)<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Linus Pauling<br \/>\nAmerican Chemist (1901)<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Bugsy Siegel<br \/>\nmobster (1906)<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Zero Mostel<br \/>\nactor (1915)<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">Mario Andretti<br \/>\nauto racing driver (1940)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 28 1784 John Wesley issues \u201cDeed of Declaration\u201d formally establishing the Methodist Church. 1849 The steamship California landed in San Francisco, bringing the first&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":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":[106,103,6131],"class_list":["post-31385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","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\/31385","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=31385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31386,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions\/31386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}