{"id":25926,"date":"2016-03-09T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25926"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:20:45","slug":"25926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25926","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1796 Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>1841 The Supreme Court ruled that the<em> Amistad<\/em> slaves were free.<\/p>\n<p>1862 The first battle between two ironclad ships, the<em> Monitor (Union)<\/em> and <em>Merrimack (Confederate)<\/em> occurred, revolutionizing naval warfare.<\/p>\n<p>1933 The special session of Congress known as the &#8220;100 days&#8221; opened, launching FDR&#8217;s New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>1935 The cartoon character Porky Pig first appears in &#8220;I Haven&#8217;t Got a Hat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>1957\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aleutian Islands register a 9.1 magnitude earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>1959\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The first Barbie doll debuts.<\/p>\n<p>1964 U.S. Supreme Court issued N.Y. Times v. Sullivan ruling.<\/p>\n<p>1964\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The first Ford Mustang is built.<\/p>\n<p>1987\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0U2 releases the album<em> The Joshua Tree<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>1990 Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as both the first Hispanic and woman to be U.S. surgeon general.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Famous Birthdays:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1454\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Amerigo Vespucci (Italian explorer)<\/p>\n<p>1934\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yuri Gagarin (1st man in space)<\/p>\n<p>1943\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bobby Fisher (Chess Champion)<\/p>\n<p>1959\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Barbie&#8217;s offical Birthday (the doll)<\/p>\n<p>1971\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Emmanuel Lewis (Actor)<\/p>\n<p>1984\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Julia Mancuso (Gold Medal skier)<\/p>\n<p>1987\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bow Wow (Singer and Rapper)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events: 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution. 1841 The Supreme Court ruled that the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"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":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-25926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"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\/25926","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\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25929,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25926\/revisions\/25929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}