{"id":43543,"date":"2019-02-06T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43543"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:54:33","slug":"this-day-in-history-birthday-of-president-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43543","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Birthday of President Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>February 06<\/h4>\n<p>1788<br \/>\nMassachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution, becoming the sixth state to join the Union.<\/p>\n<p>1804<br \/>\nJoseph Priestley, British chemist, died. His work on the isolation of gases led him to discover oxygen in 1774.<\/p>\n<p>1899<br \/>\nThe Spanish-American War ended when a peace treaty between Spain and the United States was signed.<\/p>\n<p>1933<br \/>\nThe 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which set the date for the president&#8217;s inauguration on Jan. 20, was adopted.<\/p>\n<p>1935<br \/>\nThe popular board game Monopoly\u00ae went on sale for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>1952<br \/>\nPrincess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>1971<br \/>\nAstronaut Alan B. Shepard hit a golf ball and Edgar Mitchell threw a &#8220;javelin&#8221; on the moon. They landed in the same crater and remain on the Moon today.<\/p>\n<p>2001<br \/>\nAriel Sharon was elected prime minister of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>\nThe Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marked the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Ronald Reagan<br \/>\n1911\u20132004, American President.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Burr<br \/>\npolitical leader (1756)<\/p>\n<p>Jeb Stuart<br \/>\ncavalry commander (1833)<\/p>\n<p>Babe Ruth<br \/>\nbaseball player (1895)<\/p>\n<p>Mary Douglas Leakey<br \/>\narchaeologist (1913)<\/p>\n<p>Zsa Zsa Gabor<br \/>\nactor (1917)<\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut<br \/>\nfilm director and critic (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Bob Marley<br \/>\nreggae singer (1945)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 06 1788 Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution, becoming the sixth state to join the Union. 1804 Joseph Priestley, British chemist, died. His work on&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-43543","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\/43543","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=43543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43544,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43543\/revisions\/43544"}],"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=43543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}