{"id":39503,"date":"2018-08-24T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39503"},"modified":"2018-08-23T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:12:39","slug":"this-day-in-history-the-british-set-fire-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39503","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; The British set fire to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>August 24<\/h4>\n<p>79<br \/>\nMount Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.<\/p>\n<p>1572<br \/>\n70,000 French Protestants, or Huguenots, were killed in the St. Bartholomew&#8217;s Day massacre.<\/p>\n<p>1814<br \/>\nThe British set fire to the White House and the Capitol when they invaded Washington, DC during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n<p>1821<br \/>\nMexico gained its independence from Spain with the Treaty of Cordoba.<\/p>\n<p>1949<br \/>\nThe North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.<\/p>\n<p>1968<br \/>\nFrance became the world&#8217;s fifth nuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>1989<br \/>\nPete Rose was banned from baseball for gambling.<\/p>\n<p>1991<br \/>\nMikhail Gorbachev resigned as the general secretary of the Communist Party after a failed coup attempt against him.<\/p>\n<p>1992<br \/>\nHurricane Andrew hit Florida, causing record damage.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Cal Ripken, Jr.<br \/>\nbaseball player, 1960-<\/p>\n<p>William Wilberforce<br \/>\npolitician and humanitarian (1759)<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parker<br \/>\ntheologian and social reformer (1810)<\/p>\n<p>Felix Mottl<br \/>\nconductor (1856)<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Luis Borges<br \/>\npoet and critic (1899)<\/p>\n<p>Steve Guttenberg<br \/>\nactor, producer (1958)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 24 79 Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. 1572 70,000 French Protestants, or Huguenots, were killed in the St.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":39504,"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-39503","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\/washington-1212917_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\/39503","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=39503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39506,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503\/revisions\/39506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}