TMN STAFF<\/p>\n
May 25, 220 days left in this year<\/p>\n
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1787<\/strong>– The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in order to establish a new U.S. government.<\/p>\n 1925<\/strong>– John Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong>– American track star Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied another in a little over an hour.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong>– Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong>– The Gateway Arch was dedicated in St. Louis.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong>– Midnight Cowboy<\/em>, the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar, was released.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong>– The worst air disaster in U.S. history (excluding the Sept. 11 attacks) occurred when a DC-10 crashed at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, killing over 270 people.<\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1803<\/strong>– Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, and essayist<\/p>\n 1889<\/strong>– Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, inventor, help develop the helicopter<\/p>\n 1897<\/strong>– Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion boxer<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong>– Robert Ludlum, author, The Bourne Identity<\/em><\/p>\n 1929<\/strong>– Beverly Sills, singer<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong>– Frank Oz, director, puppeteer<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong>– Jamaica Kincaid, author<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 25, 220 days left in this year 1787– The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in… <\/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":[11,6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-27017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/27017","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=27017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27018,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27017\/revisions\/27018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}