{"id":39303,"date":"2018-08-02T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39303"},"modified":"2018-08-01T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:01:49","slug":"this-day-in-history-wild-bill-murdered-in-deadwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39303","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Wild Bill Murdered in Deadwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>August 02<\/h4>\n<p>1790<br \/>\nThe first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of 3,929,214 people.<\/p>\n<p>1876<br \/>\nWild Bill Hickok was murdered in Deadwood, S.D.<\/p>\n<p>1909<br \/>\nThe first Lincoln penny was issued.<\/p>\n<p>1923<br \/>\nWarren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States, died in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>1943<br \/>\nPT-109, a torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, was sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer.<\/p>\n<p>1945<br \/>\nThe Potsdam Conference, in which Allied leaders planned the postwar governance of Germany, ended.<\/p>\n<p>1990<br \/>\nThe Persian Gulf War broke out when Iraq invaded Kuwait.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Isabel Allende<br \/>\n1942\u2013Chilean novelist<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Charles L&#8217;Enfant<br \/>\nsoldier, engineer, and architect (1754)<\/p>\n<p>Elisha Gray<br \/>\ninventor (1835)<\/p>\n<p>John Sloan<br \/>\nartist (1871)<\/p>\n<p>Myrna Loy<br \/>\nactress (1905)<\/p>\n<p>Carroll O&#8217;Connor<br \/>\nactor (1922)<\/p>\n<p>James Baldwin<br \/>\nnovelist (1924)<\/p>\n<p>Peter O&#8217;Toole<br \/>\nactor (1932)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 02 1790 The first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of 3,929,214 people. 1876 Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in Deadwood, S.D. 1909&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":[11733],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,290,6131],"class_list":["post-39303","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\/39303","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=39303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39304,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303\/revisions\/39304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}