{"id":35149,"date":"2017-11-11T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35149"},"modified":"2017-11-10T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:16:35","slug":"this-day-in-history-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-is-dedicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35149","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>November 11<\/h3>\n<p>1620<br \/>\nThe Mayflower Compact was signed by Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. It would provide the basis for all governments of the American colonies.<\/p>\n<p>1831<br \/>\nFormer slave Nat Turner was executed.<\/p>\n<p>1889<br \/>\nWashington became the 42nd state.<\/p>\n<p>1918<br \/>\nThe Allies and Germany signed an armistice ending World War I.<\/p>\n<p>1921<br \/>\nThe Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was dedicated in Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>1965<br \/>\nRhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.<\/p>\n<p>1992<br \/>\nThe Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.<\/p>\n<p>2004<br \/>\nYasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died in Paris. Mahmoud Abbas was elected to take his place.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Feodor Dostoyevsky<\/p>\n<p>1821\u20131881, Russian novelist.<\/p>\n<p>Maude Adams<\/p>\n<p>actress (1872)<\/p>\n<p>George Patton<\/p>\n<p>general (1885)<\/p>\n<p>Howard Fast<\/p>\n<p>author (1914)<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<\/p>\n<p>science fiction writer (1922)<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Fuentes<\/p>\n<p>writer, editor, and diplomat (1928)<\/p>\n<p>LaVern Baker<\/p>\n<p>singer (1929)<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Boxer<\/p>\n<p>senator (1940)<\/p>\n<p>Calista Flockhart<\/p>\n<p>actress (1964)<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo DiCaprio<\/p>\n<p>actor (1974)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 11 1620 The Mayflower Compact was signed by Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. It would provide the basis for all governments of the American colonies.&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-35149","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\/35149","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=35149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35150,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions\/35150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}