{"id":33647,"date":"2017-08-16T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33647"},"modified":"2017-08-14T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T13:30:37","slug":"this-day-in-history-we-lost-the-babe-and-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33647","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; We Lost &#8220;The Babe&#8221; and &#8220;The King&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>August 16<\/h3>\n<p>1777<br \/>\nThe Revolutionary War battle of Bennington, Vt., won by American forces.<\/p>\n<p>1829<br \/>\nThe original Siamese twins, Eng and Chang, arrived in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>1948<br \/>\nBaseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York City at age 53.<\/p>\n<p>1960<br \/>\nCyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, became an independent republic.<\/p>\n<p>1962<br \/>\nAlgeria was admitted to the Arab League.<\/p>\n<p>1977<br \/>\nElvis Presley died at Graceland, his Memphis, Tenn., home, from heart failure at age 42.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nFormer Ugandan dictator Idi Amin died.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Menachem Begin<\/p>\n<p>1913\u201392, Zionist leader and Israeli prime minister (1977\u201383), born in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>George Meany<\/p>\n<p>labor leader (1894)<\/p>\n<p>Charles Bukowski<\/p>\n<p>fiction writer (1920)<\/p>\n<p>Frank Gifford<\/p>\n<p>football player (1930)<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Farrell<\/p>\n<p>ballet dancer (1945)<\/p>\n<p>James Cameron<\/p>\n<p>director (1954)<\/p>\n<p>Madonna<\/p>\n<p>pop singer and actress (1958)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 16 1777 The Revolutionary War battle of Bennington, Vt., won by American forces. 1829 The original Siamese twins, Eng and Chang, arrived in Boston.&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":[11,6132],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-33647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/33647","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=33647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33649,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647\/revisions\/33649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}