{"id":31171,"date":"2017-02-17T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31171"},"modified":"2017-02-17T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:27:28","slug":"today-in-history-346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31171","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 17<br \/>\n<em>1600<\/em><br \/>\nItalian philosopher, alchemist, and Copernican theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition.<\/p>\n<p><em>1801<\/em><br \/>\nThe electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who elected Jefferson president.<\/p>\n<p><em>1817<\/em><br \/>\nBaltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.<\/p>\n<p><em>1864<\/em><br \/>\nThe Confederate submarine <em>Hunley<\/em>, equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union&#8217;s ship <em>Housatonic<\/em> off the coast of Charleston, S.C.<\/p>\n<p><em>1904<\/em><br \/>\nPuccini&#8217;s opera <em>Madama Butterfly<\/em> premiered in Milan.<\/p>\n<p><em>1972<\/em><br \/>\nPresident Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.<\/p>\n<p><em>1996<\/em><br \/>\nChess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer, Deep Blue, winning the six-game match.<\/p>\n<p><em>2008<\/em><br \/>\nKosovo declared independence from Serbia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birthdays <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arcangelo Corelli<br \/>\ncomposer and violinist (1653)<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Sidney McClure<br \/>\neditor and publisher (1857)<\/p>\n<p>Thomas John Watson, Sr.<br \/>\nindustrialist and philanthropist (1874)<\/p>\n<p>Jim Brown<br \/>\nfootball player (1936)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 17 1600 Italian philosopher, alchemist, and Copernican theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition. 1801 The electoral&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":true,"_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":[106,103,6131],"class_list":["post-31171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","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\/31171","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=31171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31172,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions\/31172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}