{"id":33379,"date":"2017-07-18T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=33379"},"modified":"2017-07-18T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:00:36","slug":"this-day-in-history-the-burning-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33379","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; The Burning of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>July 18<\/h3>\n<p>64<br \/>\nA great fire began that ultimately destroyed most of Rome. The emperor Nero blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecution of them.<\/p>\n<p>1925<br \/>\nThe first volume of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s Mein Kampf was published.<\/p>\n<p>1936<br \/>\nThe Spanish Civil War began.<\/p>\n<p>1947<br \/>\nPresident Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act.<\/p>\n<p>1976<br \/>\n14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci earned the first perfect score, a ten, at the Olympics and went on to score six more tens and win three gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>1999<br \/>\nNew York Yankee David Cone pitched the 16th perfect game in baseball history.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n<p>Pronunciation: [nel\u00b4sun rOlEhl\u00e4\u00b4l\u00e4 m\u00e4ndA\u00b4l\u00e4]\n1918\u20132014, South African political leader.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hooke<\/p>\n<p>physicist, mathematician, and inventor (1635)<\/p>\n<p>William Thackeray<\/p>\n<p>novelist (1811)<\/p>\n<p>Jessamyn West<\/p>\n<p>novelist (1902)<\/p>\n<p>S. I. Hayakawa<\/p>\n<p>scholar, former U.S. Senator (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Red Skelton<\/p>\n<p>comedian, actor\/VOCATION&gt; (1913)<\/p>\n<p>John Glenn<\/p>\n<p>astronaut (1921)<\/p>\n<p>Dick Button<\/p>\n<p>figure skater (1929)<\/p>\n<p>Yevgeny Yevtushenko<\/p>\n<p>poet (1933)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 18 64 A great fire began that ultimately destroyed most of Rome. The emperor Nero blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman&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":[11,6132],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-33379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","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\/33379","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=33379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}