{"id":34933,"date":"2017-10-31T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34933"},"modified":"2017-10-30T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:07:32","slug":"this-day-in-history-entrapment-of-the-donner-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34933","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Entrapment of the Donner Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>October 31<\/h3>\n<p>1517<br \/>\nMartin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>1846<br \/>\nA heavy snowfall trapped the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada mountains.<\/p>\n<p>1864<br \/>\nNevada became the 36th state.<\/p>\n<p>1941<br \/>\nWork on the Mount Rushmore monument was completed.<\/p>\n<p>1956<br \/>\nRear Admiral G. J. Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.<\/p>\n<p>1984<br \/>\nIndian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>1992<br \/>\nPope John Paul II admitted that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in convicting Galileo of heresy 350 years earlier.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Chiang Kai-shek<\/p>\n<p>1887\u20131975, Chinese Nationalist leader. He was also called Chiang Chung-cheng.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Vermeer<\/p>\n<p>painter (1632)<\/p>\n<p>John Keats<\/p>\n<p>poet (1795)<\/p>\n<p>Juliette Gordon Low<\/p>\n<p>founder of the Girl Scouts of America (1860)<\/p>\n<p>Dale Evans<\/p>\n<p>actor and singer (1912)<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Bel Geddes<\/p>\n<p>actress (1922)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Collins<\/p>\n<p>astronaut (1930)<\/p>\n<p>Dan Rather<\/p>\n<p>television journalist, writer (1931)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Landon<\/p>\n<p>actor (1936)<\/p>\n<p>Jane Pauley<\/p>\n<p>TV journalist (1950)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Jackson<\/p>\n<p>director (1961)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 31 1517 Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in&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-34933","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\/34933","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=34933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34934,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34933\/revisions\/34934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}