{"id":34873,"date":"2017-10-29T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34873"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:26:00","slug":"this-day-in-history-hurricane-sandy-makes-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34873","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Hurricane Sandy Makes Landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>October 29<\/h3>\n<p>1682<br \/>\nWilliam Penn arrived in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>1787<br \/>\nMozart&#8217;s opera Don Giovanni debuted in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>1911<br \/>\nAmerican newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, S.C.<\/p>\n<p>1923<br \/>\nThe Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.<\/p>\n<p>1929<br \/>\nThe New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>1956<br \/>\nIsrael invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>1964<br \/>\nThe Star of India and other gems were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.<\/p>\n<p>1966<br \/>\nThe National Organization for Women was founded.<\/p>\n<p>1998<br \/>\nJohn Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77.<\/p>\n<p>2004<br \/>\nEuropean leaders signed the European Union&#8217;s first constitution.<\/p>\n<p>2008<br \/>\nA 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Baluchistan, one of Pakistan&#8217;s poorest regions. At least 200 people were killed and more than 15,000 were left homeless.<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>\nHurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the U.S., killing 117 people in the U.S. and 69 in Canada and the Caribbean. The storm caused about $50 billion in damage in the U.S.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Fanny Brice<\/p>\n<p>1891\u20131951, American comedienne, born in New York City as Fanny Borach.<\/p>\n<p>James Boswell<\/p>\n<p>diarist, author (1740)<\/p>\n<p>Jean Giraudoux<\/p>\n<p>French novelist and dramatist (1882)<\/p>\n<p>R. B. Kitaj<\/p>\n<p>painter (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dreyfuss<\/p>\n<p>actor (1947)<\/p>\n<p>Winona Ryder<\/p>\n<p>actress (1971)<\/p>\n<p>Gabrielle Union<\/p>\n<p>actor (1972)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 29 1682 William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania. 1787 Mozart&#8217;s opera Don Giovanni debuted in Prague. 1911 American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, S.C.&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-34873","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\/34873","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=34873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34874,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions\/34874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}