{"id":39317,"date":"2018-08-03T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39317"},"modified":"2018-08-02T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:05:42","slug":"this-day-in-history-columbus-sails-for-the-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39317","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Columbus sails for the new world"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>August 03<\/h4>\n<p>1492<br \/>\nColumbus set sail from Palos, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>1914<br \/>\nGermany declared war on France.<\/p>\n<p>1923<br \/>\nCalvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding.<\/p>\n<p>1949<br \/>\nThe National Basketball Association was formed.<\/p>\n<p>1958<br \/>\nThe nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.<\/p>\n<p>1981<br \/>\nU.S. air traffic controllers went on strike.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nThe Iran-Contra hearings ended.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Tony Bennett<br \/>\n(Anthony Dominick Benedetto) 1926\u2013, Jazz Singer, born in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Elisha Otis<br \/>\ninventor (1811)<\/p>\n<p>Rupert Brooke<br \/>\npoet (1887)<\/p>\n<p>P. D. James<br \/>\nmystery novelist (1920)<\/p>\n<p>Martin Sheen<br \/>\nactor (1940)<\/p>\n<p>Martha Stewart<br \/>\nentrepreneur (1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 03 1492 Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain. 1914 Germany declared war on France. 1923 Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":39318,"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-39317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/christopher-columbus-3381359_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39317","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=39317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39319,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39317\/revisions\/39319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}