{"id":36846,"date":"2018-02-26T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=36846"},"modified":"2018-02-25T19:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T01:08:02","slug":"this-day-in-history-grand-canyon-national-park-is-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=36846","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History &#8212; Grand Canyon National Park is Established"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>February 26<\/h3>\n<p>1815<br \/>\nNapoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba.<\/p>\n<p>1870<br \/>\nA 312-ft long pneumatic subway was opened in New York City; funding for a larger version never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>1901<br \/>\nLeaders of the Boxer Uprising in China, Chi-hsui and Hsu Cheng-yu, were beheaded.<\/p>\n<p>1919<br \/>\nGrand Canyon National Park was established.<\/p>\n<p>1935<br \/>\nRADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.<\/p>\n<p>1993<br \/>\nA bomb exploded at the World Trade Center in New York. The blast killed six people and injured more than 1,000.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Buffalo Bill Cody<br \/>\n1846\u20131917, American Plainsman.<\/p>\n<p>American plainsman, scout, and showman, born near Davenport, Iowa. His real name was William Frederick Cody.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hugo<br \/>\nwriter (1802)<\/p>\n<p>Levi Strauss<br \/>\nentrepreneur, inventor (1829)<\/p>\n<p>John Harvey Kellogg<br \/>\nsurgeon, advocate of dietary reform (1852)<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Cash<br \/>\nsinger (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Thompson<br \/>\nswimmer (1973)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 26 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba. 1870 A 312-ft long pneumatic subway was opened in New York City;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"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":[69,106,103,290,6131],"class_list":["post-36846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tmn","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\/36846","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36847,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36846\/revisions\/36847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}