{"id":43792,"date":"2019-02-15T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43792"},"modified":"2019-02-15T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:11:05","slug":"this-day-in-history-canada-adopts-maple-leaf-as-national-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43792","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Canada adopts &#8220;Maple Leaf&#8221; as national flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>February 15<\/h4>\n<p>1764<br \/>\nSt. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.<\/p>\n<p>1879<br \/>\nPresident Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>1898<br \/>\nUSS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n<p>1913<br \/>\nThe New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse.<\/p>\n<p>1933<br \/>\nChicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>1965<br \/>\nThe Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>1989<br \/>\nMore than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.<\/p>\n<p>2002<br \/>\nOlympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nMillions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>\nA prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Galileo Galilei<br \/>\n1564\u20131642, Italian Astronomer.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Menendez de Aviles<br \/>\ncolonizer (1519)<\/p>\n<p>John Sutter<br \/>\npioneer (1803)<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus McCormick<br \/>\ninventor (1809)<\/p>\n<p>Charles Lewis Tiffany<br \/>\nmerchant (1812)<\/p>\n<p>Susan B. Anthony<br \/>\nreformer (1820)<\/p>\n<p>Elihu Root<br \/>\ncabinet member and diplomat (1845)<\/p>\n<p>Alfred North Whitehead<br \/>\nmathematician and philosopher (1861)<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Henry Shackleton<br \/>\nantarctic explorer (1874)<\/p>\n<p>John Barrymore<br \/>\nactor (1882)<\/p>\n<p>Jane Seymour<br \/>\nactress (1951)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 15 1764 St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post. 1879 President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue&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":[6131],"class_list":["post-43792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dayinhistory","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\/43792","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=43792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43793,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43792\/revisions\/43793"}],"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=43792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}