{"id":35792,"date":"2017-12-21T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35792"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:52:22","slug":"this-day-in-history-first-game-of-basketball-is-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35792","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; First game of basketball is played"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>December 21<\/h3>\n<p>1620<br \/>\nThe Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>1891<br \/>\nThe first basketball game, invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by James E. Naismith, was played.<\/p>\n<p>1898<br \/>\nPierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.<\/p>\n<p>1913<br \/>\nThe first crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World.<\/p>\n<p>1937<br \/>\nDisney&#8217;s Snow White, the first feature-length color and sound cartoon, premiered.<\/p>\n<p>1970<br \/>\nElvis Presley met with president Richard Nixon in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>1988<br \/>\nA terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.<\/p>\n<p>1991<br \/>\nEleven of the former Soviet republics form the Commonwealth of Independent States.<\/p>\n<p>1995<br \/>\nPalestinians took over the control of the city of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Joseph Stalin<br \/>\n1879\u20131953, Soviet Communist Leader.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Disraeli<\/p>\n<p>statesman (1804)<\/p>\n<p>Henrietta Szold<\/p>\n<p>Zionist leader (1860)<\/p>\n<p>Dame Rebecca West<\/p>\n<p>novelist and critic (1892)<\/p>\n<p>Josh Gibson<\/p>\n<p>baseball player (1911)<\/p>\n<p>Jane Fonda<\/p>\n<p>actress (1937)<\/p>\n<p>Frank Zappa<\/p>\n<p>rock musician , composer, and pianist (1940)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Tilson Thomas<\/p>\n<p>conductor, composer, and pianist (1944)<\/p>\n<p>Samuel L. Jackson<\/p>\n<p>actor (1948)<\/p>\n<p>Chris Evert<\/p>\n<p>tennis player (1954)<\/p>\n<p>Ray Romano<\/p>\n<p>comedian, actor (1957)<\/p>\n<p>Florence Griffith-Joyner<\/p>\n<p>sprinter (1959)<\/p>\n<p>Kiefer Sutherland<\/p>\n<p>actor (1966)<\/p>\n<p>Julie Delpy<\/p>\n<p>actor (1969)<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Stiles<\/p>\n<p>basketball player (1978)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 21 1620 The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1891 The first basketball game, invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by James E. Naismith, was&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-35792","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\/35792","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=35792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35793,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792\/revisions\/35793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}