{"id":37547,"date":"2018-04-06T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=37547"},"modified":"2018-04-05T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:54:14","slug":"this-day-in-history-first-modern-olympic-games-open-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=37547","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; First modern Olympic Games open in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>April 06<\/h3>\n<p>1830<br \/>\nJoseph Smith and five others organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York.<\/p>\n<p>1862<br \/>\nThe Battle of Shiloh in the American Civil War began.<\/p>\n<p>1896<br \/>\nFirst modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n<p>1909<br \/>\nRobert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first to reach the North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>1917<br \/>\nU.S. declared war on Germany and entered World War I.<\/p>\n<p>1994<br \/>\nThe presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Raphael Santi<br \/>\nPronunciation: [r\u00e4f&#8221;f\u00e4el\u00b4lO s\u00e4n\u00b4tE, s\u00e4n\u00b4tsyO]\nItal. Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio 1483\u20131520, major Italian Renaissance painter, born in Urbino.<\/p>\n<p>James Mill<br \/>\nphilosopher, economist, and historian (1773)<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Fokker<br \/>\naircraft manufacturer (1890)<\/p>\n<p>Andre Previn<br \/>\nconductor, composer, and pianist (1929)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 06 1830 Joseph Smith and five others organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York. 1862 The Battle of&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":[69,106,103,1495,290,6131],"class_list":["post-37547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","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\/37547","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=37547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37548,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37547\/revisions\/37548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}