{"id":33514,"date":"2017-07-29T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=33514"},"modified":"2017-07-29T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:00:35","slug":"this-day-in-history-nasa-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33514","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; NASA Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>July 29<\/h3>\n<p>1890<br \/>\nArtist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France.<\/p>\n<p>1958<br \/>\nPresident Eisenhower signed the congressional act that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>1968<br \/>\nIn Humanae Vitae (of Human Life), Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church&#8217;s prohibition on artificial methods of birth control.<\/p>\n<p>1981<br \/>\nPrince Charles, heir to the British throne, married Lady Diana Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nRed sox switch hitter Bill Mueller became the first baseball player to hit grand slam home runs from both sides of the plate in the same game.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Dag Hammarskjold<\/p>\n<p>1905\u201361, Swedish statesman, secretary-general of the United Nations (1953\u201361).<\/p>\n<p>Alexis de Tocqueville<\/p>\n<p>writer (1805)<\/p>\n<p>Booth Tarkington<\/p>\n<p>author (1869)<\/p>\n<p>Benito Mussolini<\/p>\n<p>dictator (1883)<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Landon Kassebaum<\/p>\n<p>senator (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Hanford Dole<\/p>\n<p>public official (1936)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Jennings<\/p>\n<p>news anchor (1938)<\/p>\n<p>Ken Burns<\/p>\n<p>documentary filmmaker (1953)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 29 1890 Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France. 1958 President Eisenhower signed the congressional act that created&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":[69,106,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-33514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","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\/33514","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=33514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}