{"id":33792,"date":"2017-09-05T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33792"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:29:51","slug":"this-day-in-history-inaugural-meeting-of-the-continental-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=33792","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Inaugural Meeting of the Continental Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>September 05<\/h3>\n<p>1698<br \/>\nRussia&#8217;s Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men.<\/p>\n<p>1774<br \/>\nThe first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>1836<br \/>\nThe Republic of Texas made miltary hero Sam Houston its first president.<\/p>\n<p>1905<br \/>\nThe Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth naval base in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>1972<br \/>\nPalestinian guerrillas killed 11 Israelis at the Munich Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>1997<br \/>\nHumanitarian Mother Teresa, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor, died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Louis XIV<\/p>\n<p>1638\u20131715, king of France (1643\u20131715), son and successor of King Louis XIII.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse James<\/p>\n<p>outlaw (1847)<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. H. H. A. Beach<\/p>\n<p>composer and pianist (1867)<\/p>\n<p>Darryl F. Zanuck<\/p>\n<p>producer (1902)<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Koestler<\/p>\n<p>writer (1905)<\/p>\n<p>John Cage<\/p>\n<p>composer (1912)<\/p>\n<p>Bob Newhart<\/p>\n<p>comedian (1929)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 05 1698 Russia&#8217;s Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men. 1774 The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. 1836 The Republic of&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-33792","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\/33792","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=33792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33794,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33792\/revisions\/33794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}