{"id":43555,"date":"2019-02-07T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43555"},"modified":"2019-02-07T07:58:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:58:32","slug":"this-day-in-history-founding-of-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43555","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Founding of Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>February 07<\/h4>\n<p>1795<br \/>\nThe 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.<\/p>\n<p>1904<br \/>\nDisastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>1926<br \/>\nCarter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>1964<br \/>\nThe Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>1971<br \/>\nWomen in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage.<\/p>\n<p>1974<br \/>\nThe island of Grenada won its independence from Britain<\/p>\n<p>1986<br \/>\nPresident Jean-Claude &#8220;Baby Doc&#8221; Duvalier fled Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>1990<br \/>\nThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union allowed other parties to compete for power.<\/p>\n<p>1991<br \/>\nJean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as first democratically-elected president of Haiti.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Frederick Douglass<br \/>\n1817\u20131895, American Abolitionist.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Thomas More<br \/>\nstatesman (1478)<\/p>\n<p>John Deere<br \/>\nindustrialist and manufacturer (1804)<\/p>\n<p>Charles Dickens<br \/>\nnovelist (1812)<\/p>\n<p>Laura Ingalls Wilder<br \/>\nauthor (1867)<\/p>\n<p>Eubie Blake<br \/>\npianist and composer (1883)<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair Lewis<br \/>\nnovelist (1885)<\/p>\n<p>An Wang<br \/>\ncomputer entrepreneur (1920)<\/p>\n<p>James Spader<br \/>\nactor (1960)<\/p>\n<p>Garth Brooks<br \/>\ncountry singer (1962)<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rockcomedian (1966)<br \/>\nAshton Ku<\/p>\n<p>tcher<br \/>\nactor (1978)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 07 1795 The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. 1904 Disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore. 1926 Carter G.&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-43555","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\/43555","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=43555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43556,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions\/43556"}],"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=43555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}