{"id":26074,"date":"2016-03-18T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26074"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:21:25","slug":"today-in-history-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26074","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_26075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26075\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=26075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26075\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26075\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ivan_the_Terrible_cropped-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"By Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>March 18<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"synddate\">\n<p>1584<\/p>\n<p>Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan \u201cThe Terrible,\u201d died at age 53.<\/p>\n<p>1766<\/p>\n<p>After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.<\/p>\n<p>1925<\/p>\n<p>The most violent single tornado in U.S. history, the \u201cTri-State Tornado,\u201d hit Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring 13,000 others.<\/p>\n<p>1963<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court held in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.<\/p>\n<p>1965<\/p>\n<p>Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p>1967<\/p>\n<p>The oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the Cornish coast of England, spilling 919,000 barrels of oil into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>1990<\/p>\n<p>The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.<\/p>\n<p>2004<\/p>\n<p>A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>2005<\/p>\n<p>After a long legal battle, Terry Schiavo&#8217;s feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18 1584 Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan \u201cThe Terrible,\u201d died at age 53. 1766 After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp&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-26074","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\/26074","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=26074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26077,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26074\/revisions\/26077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}