{"id":42861,"date":"2018-12-16T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42861"},"modified":"2018-12-14T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:19:53","slug":"this-day-in-history-boston-tea-party-occurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42861","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Boston Tea Party Occurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>December 16<\/h4>\n<p>1653<br \/>\nOliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>1773<br \/>\nThe Boston Tea Party took place.<\/p>\n<p>1916<br \/>\nGrigori Rasputin assassinated by a group of noble Russian conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>1920<br \/>\nOne of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the Gansu province in China. The 8.6 quake killed 200,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>1944<br \/>\nThe Battle of the Bulge during World War II began in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>1990<br \/>\nJean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country&#8217;s first democratic elections.<\/p>\n<p>2000<br \/>\nColin Powell was selected to become the first African-American secretary of state.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Ludwig van Beethoven<br \/>\n1770\u20131827, German Composer.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen<br \/>\nnovelist (1775)<\/p>\n<p>George Santayana<br \/>\nphilosopher and poet (1863)<\/p>\n<p>Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly<br \/>\ncomposer (1882)<\/p>\n<p>Noel Coward<br \/>\nplaywright, composer (1899)<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Mead<br \/>\nanthropologist (1901)<\/p>\n<p>Arthur C. Clarke<br \/>\nscience fiction writer (1917)<\/p>\n<p>Philip K. Dick<br \/>\nwriter (1928)<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Bratt<br \/>\nactor (1963)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16 1653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1773 The Boston Tea Party took place. 1916 Grigori Rasputin assassinated by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":42404,"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-42861","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\/11\/This-Day-In-History.jpg?fit=1200%2C670","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861","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=42861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42862,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861\/revisions\/42862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}