{"id":33712,"date":"2017-08-27T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33712"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:54:33","slug":"this-day-in-history-mariner-ii-space-probe-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33712","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Mariner II Space Probe Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>August 27<\/h3>\n<p>1859<br \/>\nEdwin Drake drilled the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville, Pa.<\/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>1928<br \/>\nThe Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, was signed.<\/p>\n<p>1945<br \/>\nU.S. troops began landing in Japan after Japan&#8217;s surrender in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>1962<br \/>\nThe U.S. launched the Mariner II space probe.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nMars made its closest approach to earth in 60,000 years.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Lyndon B. Johnson<\/p>\n<p>1908\u20131973, Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Tex., on Aug. 27, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Charles G. Dawes<\/p>\n<p>statesman (1865)<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Dreiser<\/p>\n<p>writer (1871)<\/p>\n<p>Man Ray<\/p>\n<p>photographer, painter, (1890)<\/p>\n<p>C.S. Forester<\/p>\n<p>novelist (1899)<\/p>\n<p>Frank Leahy<\/p>\n<p>football coach (1908)<\/p>\n<p>Tom Ford<\/p>\n<p>fashion designer, film director (1961)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 27 1859 Edwin Drake drilled the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville, Pa. 1883 A massive volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatoa&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":[69,106,103,6131],"class_list":["post-33712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","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\/33712","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=33712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33713,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33712\/revisions\/33713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}