{"id":41130,"date":"2018-10-11T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41130"},"modified":"2018-10-11T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:01:10","slug":"this-day-in-history-kathryn-sullivan-becomes-first-woman-to-walk-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41130","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Kathryn Sullivan becomes first woman to walk in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>October 11<\/h4>\n<p>1779<br \/>\nPolish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the battle of Savannah.<\/p>\n<p>1899<br \/>\nThe Boer War began in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>1915<br \/>\nEnglish nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans.<\/p>\n<p>1939<br \/>\nA letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.<\/p>\n<p>1962<br \/>\nThe first session of Vatican II was convened by Pope John XXIII.<\/p>\n<p>1968<br \/>\nThe first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.<\/p>\n<p>1984<br \/>\nSpace shuttle Challenger astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan, became the first American woman to walk in space.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Eleanor Roosevelt<br \/>\n1884\u20131962, American humanitarian, born in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>H. J. Heinz<br \/>\nfood manufacturer (1844)<\/p>\n<p>Charles Revson<br \/>\ncosmetics industry executive (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Alsop<br \/>\npolitical journalist (1910)<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Robbins<br \/>\nchoreographer (1918)<\/p>\n<p>Elmore Leonard<br \/>\nwriter (1925)<\/p>\n<p>Steve Young<br \/>\nfootball player (1961)<\/p>\n<p>Joan Cusack<br \/>\ncomic actress (1962)<\/p>\n<p>Luke Perry<br \/>\nactor (1966)<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Wie<br \/>\ngolfer (1989)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 11 1779 Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War commander Casimir Pulaski was killed in the battle of Savannah. 1899 The Boer War began in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":41131,"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":[69,106,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-41130","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-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sunrise-1756274_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C960&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\/41130","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=41130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41132,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130\/revisions\/41132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}