{"id":33710,"date":"2017-08-26T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33710"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:51:01","slug":"this-day-in-history-krakatoa-blows-its-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33710","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Krakatoa Blows Its Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>August 26<\/h3>\n<p>1847<br \/>\nLiberia was proclaimed an independent republic.<\/p>\n<p>1883<br \/>\nA massive volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatoa blew up most of the island and resulted in tsunamis that killed over 36,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>1920<br \/>\nThe 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.<\/p>\n<p>1939<br \/>\nThe first televised major league baseball game was televised: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>1974<br \/>\nAviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.<\/p>\n<p>1978<br \/>\nJohn Paul I became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He died one month later.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Robert Walpole<\/p>\n<p>1676\u20131745, English statesman.<\/p>\n<p>Julio Cort<\/p>\n<p>chemist (1743)<\/p>\n<p>Peggy Guggenheim<\/p>\n<p>art patron and collector (1898)<\/p>\n<p>Albert Sabin<\/p>\n<p>physician and microbiologist (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa<\/p>\n<p>Roman Catholic missionary (1910)<\/p>\n<p>Macaulay Culkin<\/p>\n<p>actor (1980)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 26 1847 Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic. 1883 A massive volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatoa blew up most of the island&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-33710","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\/33710","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=33710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33711,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33710\/revisions\/33711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}