{"id":33519,"date":"2017-07-31T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=33519"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:00:03","slug":"this-day-in-history-earth-meets-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33519","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Earth Meets the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>July 31<\/h3>\n<p>1498<br \/>\nColumbus arrived at the island of Trinidad.<\/p>\n<p>1777<br \/>\nThe Marquis de Lafayette became a major-general in the American Continental Army.<\/p>\n<p>1790<br \/>\nThe first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a process of making fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>1875<br \/>\nAndrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, died in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>1954<br \/>\nMount Godwin-Austen (K2), the world&#8217;s second-highest peak, was climbed for the first time, by an Italian team led by Ardito Desio.<\/p>\n<p>1964<br \/>\nThe U.S. space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the Moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>J. K. Rowling<\/p>\n<p>1965\u2013, writer<\/p>\n<p>S. S. Kresge<\/p>\n<p>merchant, philanthropist (1867)<\/p>\n<p>Jean Dubuffet<\/p>\n<p>painter and sculptor (1901)<\/p>\n<p>Milton Friedman<\/p>\n<p>economist (1912)<\/p>\n<p>Whitney M. Young, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>social reformer (1921)<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Snipes<\/p>\n<p>actor, producer (1962)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31 1498 Columbus arrived at the island of Trinidad. 1777 The Marquis de Lafayette became a major-general in the American Continental Army. 1790 The&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-33519","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\/33519","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=33519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}