{"id":35716,"date":"2017-12-16T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35716"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:00:05","slug":"this-day-in-history-the-boston-tea-party-takes-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35716","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; The Boston Tea Party takes place"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>December 16<\/h3>\n<p>1653<br \/>\nOliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>1773<br \/>\nThe Boston Tea Party took place.<\/p>\n<p>1916<br \/>\nGrigori Rasputin assassinated by a group of noble Russian conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>1920<br \/>\nOne of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the Gansu province in China. The 8.6 quake killed 200,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>1944<br \/>\nThe Battle of the Bulge during World War II began in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>1990<br \/>\nJean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country&#8217;s first democratic elections.<\/p>\n<p>2000<br \/>\nColin Powell was selected to become the first African-American secretary of state.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Ludwig van Beethoven<\/p>\n<p>1770\u20131827, German Composer.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen<\/p>\n<p>novelist (1775)<\/p>\n<p>George Santayana<\/p>\n<p>philosopher and poet (1863)<\/p>\n<p>Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly<\/p>\n<p>composer (1882)<\/p>\n<p>Noel Coward<\/p>\n<p>playwright, composer (1899)<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Mead<\/p>\n<p>anthropologist (1901)<\/p>\n<p>Arthur C. Clarke<\/p>\n<p>science fiction writer (1917)<\/p>\n<p>Philip K. Dick<\/p>\n<p>writer (1928)<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Bratt<\/p>\n<p>actor (1963)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16 1653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1773 The Boston Tea Party took place. 1916 Grigori Rasputin assassinated by&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-35716","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\/35716","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=35716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35717,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35716\/revisions\/35717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}