{"id":41159,"date":"2018-10-12T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41159"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:01:16","slug":"this-day-in-history-wilt-chamberlain-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41159","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Wilt Chamberlain dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>October 12<\/h4>\n<p>1492<br \/>\nColumbus landed in present-day Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>1870<br \/>\nGen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va., at age 63.<\/p>\n<p>1960<br \/>\nSoviet premier Nikita Krushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. General Assembly by pounding his desk with his shoe.<\/p>\n<p>1964<br \/>\nThe Soviets launched Voskhod I, the first space capsule to carry three people into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>1999<br \/>\nNBA Hall-of-Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at his Bel Air home at age 63.<\/p>\n<p>2000<br \/>\n17 U.S. sailors killed with the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>2002<br \/>\nA bomb destroyed a nightclub in Bali, killing 202, mostly tourists.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Luciano Pavarotti<br \/>\n1935\u20132007, Italian tenor.<\/p>\n<p>Elmer Ambrose Sperry<br \/>\ninventor (1860)<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Elmer Imes<br \/>\nchemist, physicist (1883)<\/p>\n<p>Ann Petry<br \/>\nnovelist (1908)<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Ward<br \/>\nfootball (1962)<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Jackman<br \/>\nactor (1968)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 12 1492 Columbus landed in present-day Bahamas. 1870 Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va., at age 63. 1960 Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev&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-41159","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\/41159","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=41159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41160,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159\/revisions\/41160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}