{"id":39958,"date":"2018-09-14T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39958"},"modified":"2018-09-13T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T16:41:09","slug":"this-day-in-history-francis-scott-key-pens-star-spangled-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=39958","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Francis Scott Key pens Star Spangled Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>September 14<\/h4>\n<p>1814<br \/>\nFrancis Scott Key composed the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner.<\/p>\n<p>1901<br \/>\nPresident McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.<\/p>\n<p>1927<br \/>\nModern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France.<\/p>\n<p>1940<br \/>\nCongress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>1959<br \/>\nThe Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashed onto the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>1982<br \/>\nPrincess Grace of Monaco died from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>1994<br \/>\nActing commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the 1994 baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Alexander von Humboldt<br \/>\n1769\u20131859, German naturalist and explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Petrovich Pavlov<br \/>\nphysiologist (1849)<\/p>\n<p>Alice Stone Blackwell<br \/>\nfeminist (1857)<\/p>\n<p>Charles Dana Gibson<br \/>\nillustrator (1867)<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Sanger<br \/>\nfeminist (1879)<\/p>\n<p>Constance Baker Motley<br \/>\nlawyer and jurist (1921)<\/p>\n<p>Amy Winehouse<br \/>\nsinger, songwriter (1983)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 14 1814 Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner. 1901 President McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin.&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":[69,106,103,1495,290,6131],"class_list":["post-39958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958","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=39958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39959,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958\/revisions\/39959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}