{"id":39327,"date":"2018-08-05T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39327"},"modified":"2018-08-03T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:57:00","slug":"this-day-in-history-statue-of-liberty-cornerstone-is-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39327","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Statue of Liberty cornerstone is laid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>August 05<\/h4>\n<p>1861<br \/>\nFor the first time, the U.S. government levied an income tax.<\/p>\n<p>1884<br \/>\nThe cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe&#8217;s Island.<\/p>\n<p>1914<br \/>\nThe first electric traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>1962<br \/>\nMarilyn Monroe died.<\/p>\n<p>1963<br \/>\nThe United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater.<\/p>\n<p>1969<br \/>\nThe U.S. space probe Mariner 7 transmitted pictures of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>1984<br \/>\nJoan Benoit won the first Olympic women&#8217;s marathon.<\/p>\n<p>2002<br \/>\nThe gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nThe Rev. Gene Robinson was approved as the first openly gay bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>\nThe plutonium-powered rover Curiosity successfully lands on Mars. Larger than earlier rovers, Curiosity will spend two years examining the land, looking for evidence that conditions on Mars are fit for life.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Neil Armstrong<br \/>\n1930\u20132012, American astronaut born in Wapakoneta, Ohio. First man on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Guy de Maupassant<br \/>\nauthor (1850)<\/p>\n<p>Conrad Aiken<br \/>\nauthor (1889)<\/p>\n<p>John Huston<br \/>\nfilmmaker (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Ewing<br \/>\nbasketball player (1962)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 05 1861 For the first time, the U.S. government levied an income tax. 1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":39328,"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-39327","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\/statue-of-liberty-267948_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1079&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\/39327","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=39327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39329,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39327\/revisions\/39329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}