{"id":26243,"date":"2016-03-24T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26243"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:22:25","slug":"today-in-history-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26243","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 2016. \u00a0There are 282 days left in the year.<br \/>\n<strong>1603<\/strong><br \/>\nQueen Elizabeth I died at age 69 after ruling England for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1882<\/strong><br \/>\nRobert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1949<\/strong><br \/>\nLaurence Olivier&#8217;s Hamlet became the first British film to win an Oscar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1958<\/strong><br \/>\nRock &#8216;n&#8217; roll star Elvis Presley joined the U.S. army for two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1989<\/strong><br \/>\nIn one of worst oil spills in recent history, the tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999<\/strong><br \/>\nNATO begins launching air strikes in an attempt to force Serbia to cease hostilities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002<\/strong><br \/>\nHalle Berry became the first African-American actress to win a best actress Oscar and Denzel Washington became the second African-American actor to get the best actor award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004<\/strong><br \/>\nThe notorious Bird family&#8217;s more than half-century stronghold on the nation of Antigua and Barbuda came to an end when Baldwin Spencer won the post of prime minister in the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 2016. \u00a0There are 282 days left in the year. 1603 Queen Elizabeth I died at age 69 after ruling England for more than&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-26243","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\/26243","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=26243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26245,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions\/26245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}