{"id":35930,"date":"2018-01-06T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35930"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:53:47","slug":"this-day-in-history-whyyyyy-attack-on-nancy-kerrigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=35930","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; &#8220;Whyyyyy?&#8221; Attack on Nancy Kerrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>January 06<\/h3>\n<p>1540<br \/>\nKing Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.<\/p>\n<p>1759<br \/>\nGeorge Washington married Martha Custis.<\/p>\n<p>1838<br \/>\nSamuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>1912<br \/>\nNew Mexico became the 47th state in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1919<br \/>\nFormer president Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nUniversity of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.<\/p>\n<p>1994<br \/>\nFigure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by men including husband of rival skater Tonya Harding.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthday<\/h3>\n<p>Carl Sandburg<br \/>\n1878\u20131967, American poet and biographer<\/p>\n<p>Heinrich Schliemann<\/p>\n<p>archaeologist (1822)<\/p>\n<p>Tom Mix<\/p>\n<p>actor (1880)<\/p>\n<p>Khalil Gibran<\/p>\n<p>poet and novelist (1883)<\/p>\n<p>Abram Nicholas Pritzker<\/p>\n<p>entrepreneur (1896)<\/p>\n<p>Loretta Young<\/p>\n<p>actor (1913)<\/p>\n<p>Danny Thomas<\/p>\n<p>actor, singer, dancer (1914)<\/p>\n<p>E L Doctorow<\/p>\n<p>novelist (1931)<\/p>\n<p>Rowan Atkinson<\/p>\n<p>actor (1955)<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Lopez<\/p>\n<p>golfer (1957)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 06 1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves. 1759 George Washington married Martha Custis. 1838 Samuel Morse gave&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-35930","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\/35930","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=35930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35931,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35930\/revisions\/35931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}