{"id":38421,"date":"2018-06-03T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=38421"},"modified":"2018-05-20T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T21:51:55","slug":"this-day-in-history-worlds-worst-oil-spill-occurred-off-the-coast-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=38421","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; World&#8217;s Worst Oil Spill Occurred off the Coast of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>June 03<\/h3>\n<p>1861<br \/>\nStephen Douglas, U.S. politician, died.<\/p>\n<p>1937<br \/>\nThe Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) married Wallis Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>1965<br \/>\nMaj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.<\/p>\n<p>1979<br \/>\nThe world&#8217;s worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>1989<br \/>\nChinese army troops head to Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Allen Ginsberg<br \/>\n1926\u20131997, American poet, born in Paterson, N.J., graduated Columbia, 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson Davis<br \/>\nPresident of the Confederacy (1808)<\/p>\n<p>Henry James<br \/>\nphilosophical theologian (1811)<\/p>\n<p>Raoul Dufy<br \/>\npainter (1877)<\/p>\n<p>Josephine Baker<br \/>\ndancer and singer (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Tony Curtis<br \/>\nactor (1925)<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Mayfield<br \/>\nsinger-songwriter (1942)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 03 1861 Stephen Douglas, U.S. politician, died. 1937 The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) married Wallis Simpson. 1965 Maj. Edward White became the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"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":[11733],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,290,6131],"class_list":["post-38421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayinhistory","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\/38421","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38422,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421\/revisions\/38422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}