{"id":39736,"date":"2018-09-05T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39736"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:14:56","slug":"this-day-in-history-first-continental-congress-convenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39736","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; First Continental Congress Convenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>September 05<\/h4>\n<p>1698<br \/>\nRussia&#8217;s Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men.<\/p>\n<p>1774<br \/>\nThe first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>1836<br \/>\nThe Republic of Texas made miltary hero Sam Houston its first president.<\/p>\n<p>1905<br \/>\nThe Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth naval base in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>1972<br \/>\nPalestinian guerrillas killed 11 Israelis at the Munich Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>1997<br \/>\nHumanitarian Mother Teresa, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor, died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Louis XIV<br \/>\n1638\u20131715, king of France (1643\u20131715), son and successor of King Louis XIII.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse James<br \/>\noutlaw (1847)<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. H. H. A. Beach<br \/>\ncomposer and pianist (1867)<\/p>\n<p>Darryl F. Zanuck<br \/>\nproducer (1902)<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Koestler<br \/>\nwriter (1905)<\/p>\n<p>John Cage<br \/>\ncomposer (1912)<\/p>\n<p>Bob Newhart<br \/>\ncomedian (1929)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 05 1698 Russia&#8217;s Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men. 1774 The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. 1836 The Republic of&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":[69,106,103,290,6131],"class_list":["post-39736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayinhistory","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","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\/39736","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=39736"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39742,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39736\/revisions\/39742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}