{"id":40860,"date":"2018-10-03T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40860"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:11:15","slug":"this-day-in-history-president-lincoln-decrees-thanksgiving-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40860","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; President Lincoln Decrees Thanksgiving Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>October 03<\/h4>\n<p>1226<br \/>\nSt. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died.<\/p>\n<p>1863<br \/>\nPresident Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.<\/p>\n<p>1922<br \/>\nRebecca L. Felton became the first woman U.S. Senator when she was appointed to serve out the term of Senator Thomas E. Watson.<\/p>\n<p>1929<br \/>\nThe Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>1955<br \/>\nCaptain Kangaroo and The Mickey Mouse Club premiered on television.<\/p>\n<p>1974<br \/>\nFrank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.<\/p>\n<p>1990<br \/>\nEast Germany and West Germany united to become Germany, 45 years after being split into two countries at the end of World War II.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Thomas Wolfe<br \/>\n1900\u20141938, American novelist, b. Asheville, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>John Ross<br \/>\nNative American chief (1790)<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Bonnard<br \/>\npainter and illustrator (1867)<\/p>\n<p>James Herriot<br \/>\nwriter (1916)<\/p>\n<p>Gore Vidal<br \/>\nwriter (1925)<\/p>\n<p>Dave Winfield<br \/>\nbaseball player (1951)<\/p>\n<p>Al Sharpton, Jr.<br \/>\ncivil rights activist and minister (1954)<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Lee<br \/>\nrock musician (1962)<\/p>\n<p>Clive Owen<br \/>\nactor (1964)<\/p>\n<p>Gwen Stefani<br \/>\nsinger (1969)<\/p>\n<p>Neve Campbell<br \/>\nactress (1973)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 03 1226 St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died. 1863 President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":40861,"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":[11733],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,290,6131],"class_list":["post-40860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dayinhistory","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","tag-tmn","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/still-life-3698130_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860","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=40860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40862,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions\/40862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}