{"id":33555,"date":"2017-08-03T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33555"},"modified":"2017-08-02T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:01:15","slug":"this-day-in-history-columbus-sails-the-ocean-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33555","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>August 03<\/h3>\n<p>1492<br \/>\nColumbus set sail from Palos, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>1914<br \/>\nGermany declared war on France.<\/p>\n<p>1923<br \/>\nCalvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding.<\/p>\n<p>1949<br \/>\nThe National Basketball Association was formed.<\/p>\n<p>1958<br \/>\nThe nuclear-powered submarmine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.<\/p>\n<p>1981<br \/>\nU.S. air traffic controllers went on strike.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nThe Iran-Contra hearings ended.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Tony Bennett<\/p>\n<p>(Anthony Dominick Benedetto) 1926\u2013, Jazz Singer, born in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Elisha Otis<\/p>\n<p>inventor (1811)<\/p>\n<p>Rupert Brooke<\/p>\n<p>poet (1887)<\/p>\n<p>P. D. James<\/p>\n<p>mystery novelist (1920)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Sheen<\/p>\n<p>actor (1940)<\/p>\n<p>Martha Stewart<\/p>\n<p>entrepreneur (1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 03 1492 Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain. 1914 Germany declared war on France. 1923 Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president&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":[69,106,103,6131],"class_list":["post-33555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","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\/33555","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=33555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33556,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555\/revisions\/33556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}