{"id":34505,"date":"2017-10-10T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34505"},"modified":"2017-10-09T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:54:45","slug":"this-day-in-history-us-declares-war-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34505","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; US Declares War on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>October 10<\/h3>\n<p>1845<br \/>\nThe U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.<\/p>\n<p>1886<br \/>\nThe tuxedo dinner jacket made its debut at a ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>1911<br \/>\nSun Yat-sen&#8217;s revolutionaries overthrew the Manchu dynasty in China.<\/p>\n<p>1935<br \/>\nGeorge Gershwin&#8217;s opera Porgy and Bess debuted on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>1943<br \/>\nChiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.<\/p>\n<p>1970<br \/>\nFiji gained its independence from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>1973<br \/>\nVice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>1985<br \/>\nActor and director Orson Welles died in Hollywood at age 70.<\/p>\n<p>2001<br \/>\nCalifornia representative Nancy Pelosi became minority whip.<\/p>\n<p>2002<br \/>\nThe US Congress gave President Bush authorization to use military force against Iraq.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>James Clavell<\/p>\n<p>1924\u20131994, (Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle), screenwriter, director, producer, novelist born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Antoine Watteau<\/p>\n<p>painter (1684)<\/p>\n<p>Henry Cavendish<\/p>\n<p>physicist and chemist (1731)<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin West<\/p>\n<p>painter (1738)<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Verdi<\/p>\n<p>composer of opera (1813)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Gould Shaw<\/p>\n<p>soldier, Civil War figure (1837)<\/p>\n<p>Helen Hayes<\/p>\n<p>actress (1900)<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Giacometti<\/p>\n<p>sculptor (1901)<\/p>\n<p>R. K. Narayan<\/p>\n<p>novelist (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Thelonious Monk<\/p>\n<p>jazz pianist (1917)<\/p>\n<p>Harold Pinter<\/p>\n<p>dramatist (1930)<\/p>\n<p>Ben Vereen<\/p>\n<p>actor, dancer (1946)<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Burton<\/p>\n<p>actor (1956)<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Tucker<\/p>\n<p>country singer (1958)<\/p>\n<p>Brett Favre<\/p>\n<p>football player (1969)<\/p>\n<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>auto racer (1974)<\/p>\n<p>Mya<\/p>\n<p>singer, actor (1979)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10 1845 The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md. 1886 The tuxedo dinner jacket made its debut at a ball in Tuxedo Park,&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-34505","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\/34505","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=34505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34506,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34505\/revisions\/34506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}