{"id":39436,"date":"2018-08-17T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39436"},"modified":"2018-08-16T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:40:33","slug":"this-day-in-history-alaska-gold-rush-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39436","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Alaska Gold rush begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>August 17<\/h4>\n<p>1807<br \/>\nRobert Fulton&#8217;s steamboat, the Clermont, began its trip up the Hudson River to Albany.<\/p>\n<p>1863<br \/>\nFort Sumter, S.C. was bombarded by Union ships during the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>1896<br \/>\nProspectors found gold in Alaska, a discovery that set off the Klondike gold rush.<\/p>\n<p>1945<br \/>\nIndonesian nationalists proclaimed independence from the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>1962<br \/>\n18-year-old Peter Fechter was shot and killed by guards at the Berlin Wall, spurring riots.<\/p>\n<p>1969<br \/>\nHurricane Camille devastated the Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.<\/p>\n<p>1978<br \/>\nThe first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight landed outside of Paris.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nRudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler&#8217;s second in command, committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>2008<br \/>\nU.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal, breaking the record set by Mark Spitz in the 1972 Games. Phelps also set the record for the most golds in a single Olympics.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Pierre de Fermat<br \/>\n1601\u201365, French mathematician.<\/p>\n<p>William Carey<br \/>\nmissionary (1761)<\/p>\n<p>Davy Crockett<br \/>\nfrontiersman (1786)<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Garvey<br \/>\nblack nationalist leader (1887)<\/p>\n<p>Mae West<br \/>\nAmerican comedienne (1893)<\/p>\n<p>Ted Hughes<br \/>\npoet (1930)<\/p>\n<p>V. S. Naipaul<br \/>\nauthor (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Robert De Niro<br \/>\nfilm actor (1943)<\/p>\n<p>Sean Penn<br \/>\nactor, producer, director (1960)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 17 1807 Robert Fulton&#8217;s steamboat, the Clermont, began its trip up the Hudson River to Albany. 1863 Fort Sumter, S.C. was bombarded by Union&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":39437,"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-39436","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\/gold-513062_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1440&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\/39436","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=39436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39438,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39436\/revisions\/39438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}