{"id":20959,"date":"2015-07-25T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20959"},"modified":"2015-07-25T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:07:23","slug":"today-in-history-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=20959","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20960\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=20960\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20960\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rescue_from_Andrea_Doria-300x190.jpg?resize=300%2C190\" alt=\"The Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Today in History: Saturday, July 25, 2015<\/p>\n<p>1593- France&#8217;s King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.<br \/>\n1868- Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.<br \/>\n1952- Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.<br \/>\n1956- The Italian liner <em>Andrea Doria<\/em> collided with the Swedish ship <em>Stockholm<\/em> off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.<br \/>\n1965- Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival by playing electric guitar.<br \/>\n1975- The musical &#8220;A Chorus Line&#8221; opened on Broadway.<br \/>\n1978- The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.<br \/>\n1984- Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.<br \/>\n1994- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan&#8217;s King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries&#8217; 46-year state of war.<br \/>\n2000- Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.<br \/>\n2008- California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Birthdays<\/p>\n<p>Model-actress Iman turns 60 years old today.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Harris, Actress, 80<\/p>\n<p>Nate Thurmond, Basketball Hall of Famer, 74<\/p>\n<p>Verdine White, Rock musician (Earth, Wind and Fire), 64<\/p>\n<p>Illeana Douglas, Actress, 50<\/p>\n<p>Matt LeBlanc, Actor (&#8220;Friends&#8221;), 48<\/p>\n<p>D.B. Woodside, Actor, 46<\/p>\n<p>Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick turns 62 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press Today in History: Saturday, July 25, 2015 1593- France&#8217;s King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. 1868- Congress passed an act&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"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":[6132],"tags":[6829,6825,6827,6831,106,6489,6830,6824,6828,6126,6826,6131,6832,6603],"class_list":["post-20959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-a-chorus-line","tag-andrea-doria","tag-bob-dylan","tag-dick-cheney","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-george-w-bush","tag-in-vitro-fertilization","tag-king-henry-iv-of-france","tag-newport-folk-festival","tag-puerto-rico","tag-stockholm","tag-today-in-history","tag-trans-fats","tag-wyoming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20972,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959\/revisions\/20972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}