{"id":33092,"date":"2017-06-26T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=33092"},"modified":"2017-06-26T08:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:15:04","slug":"this-day-in-history-two-wheeled-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33092","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Transportation Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>June 26<\/h3>\n<p>1819<br \/>\nThe bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson.<\/p>\n<p>1843<br \/>\nHong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony.<\/p>\n<p>1906<br \/>\nThe first Grand Prix motor race was held in Le Mans, France.<\/p>\n<p>1959<br \/>\nThe St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, was opened.<\/p>\n<p>1963<br \/>\nPresident John Kennedy gave his, &#8220;Ich bin ein Berliner&#8221; (I am a Berliner) speech in West Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>1976<br \/>\nThe CN Tower in Toronto opened, then the world&#8217;s tallest free-standing structure.<\/p>\n<p>2000<br \/>\nThe first map of the human genome, which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical &#8220;letters&#8221; of human DNA, is completed.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nFormer South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond died at age 100.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Pearl S. Buck<\/p>\n<p>1892\u20131973, American author, born in Hillsboro, W.Va., graduated Randolph-Macon Women&#8217;s College, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Berenson<\/p>\n<p>art critic (1865)<\/p>\n<p>William Lear<\/p>\n<p>inventor (1902)<\/p>\n<p>Babe Didrickson Zaharias<\/p>\n<p>athlete (1911)<\/p>\n<p>Claudio Abbado<\/p>\n<p>conductor (1933)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26 1819 The bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson. 1843 Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony. 1906 The first Grand Prix&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"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":[69,106,103,290,6131],"class_list":["post-33092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tmn","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\/33092","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}