{"id":34680,"date":"2017-10-18T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34680"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:47:33","slug":"this-day-in-history-birthday-of-chuck-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34680","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Birthday of Chuck Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>October 18<\/h3>\n<p>1469<br \/>\nFerdinand II of Arag\u00f3n married Isabella of Castile, uniting Spain and making it a dominant world power.<\/p>\n<p>1685<br \/>\nLouis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes.<\/p>\n<p>1767<br \/>\nThe boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.<\/p>\n<p>1867<br \/>\nThe United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>1912<br \/>\nThe first Balkan War broke out.<\/p>\n<p>1931<br \/>\nInventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, N.J., at age 84.<\/p>\n<p>1968<br \/>\nThe U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes for giving a &#8220;black power&#8221; salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.<\/p>\n<p>2011<br \/>\nGilad Shalit, a 25-year-old Israeli soldier, is released after being held for more than five years by Hamas. He is exchanged for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Shalit had been held in Gaza since Palestinian militants kidnapped him in 2006.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Chuck Berry<\/p>\n<p>1926\u20142017, American rock music guitarist, singer, and songwriter<\/p>\n<p>Edward Winslow<\/p>\n<p>founders of Plymouth Colony (1595)<\/p>\n<p>Canaletto<\/p>\n<p>Venetian painter (1697)<\/p>\n<p>King Mongkut<\/p>\n<p>royalty (1804)<\/p>\n<p>Lotte Lenya<\/p>\n<p>singer and actress (1898)<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Elliott Trudeau<\/p>\n<p>former Prime Minister (1919)<\/p>\n<p>George C. Scott<\/p>\n<p>actor (1927)<\/p>\n<p>Lee Harvey Oswald<\/p>\n<p>presumed assassin (1939)<\/p>\n<p>Ntozake Shange<\/p>\n<p>writer (1948)<\/p>\n<p>Martina Navratilova<\/p>\n<p>tennis player (1956)<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/p>\n<p>actor (1960)<\/p>\n<p>Wynton Marsalis<\/p>\n<p>trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1961)<\/p>\n<p>Zac Efron<\/p>\n<p>actor (1987)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18 1469 Ferdinand II of Arag\u00f3n married Isabella of Castile, uniting Spain and making it a dominant world power. 1685 Louis XIV revoked the&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-34680","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\/34680","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=34680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34681,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680\/revisions\/34681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}