{"id":33372,"date":"2017-07-17T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=33372"},"modified":"2017-07-17T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:00:02","slug":"this-day-in-history-the-happiest-place-on-earth-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33372","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; The Happiest Place on Earth Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>July 17<\/h3>\n<p>1821<br \/>\nSpain ceded Florida to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1898<br \/>\nSpain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n<p>1917<br \/>\nThe British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.<\/p>\n<p>1938<br \/>\n&#8220;Wrong Way Corrigan&#8221; took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>1945<br \/>\nPresident Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.<\/p>\n<p>1955<br \/>\nDisneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>1975<br \/>\nThe American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>1998<br \/>\nThe last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Elbridge Gerry<\/p>\n<p>Pronunciation: [ger\u00b4E]\n1744\u20131814, American statesman, Vice President of the United States, born in Marblehead, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>John Jacob Astor<\/p>\n<p>merchant (1763)<\/p>\n<p>Erle Stanley Gardner<\/p>\n<p>detective-story writer (1889)<\/p>\n<p>Berenice Abbott<\/p>\n<p>photographer (1898)<\/p>\n<p>Donald Sutherland<\/p>\n<p>actor (1934)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17 1821 Spain ceded Florida to the United States. 1898 Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War. 1917&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":[69,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-33372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","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\/33372","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=33372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}