{"id":41589,"date":"2018-10-29T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41589"},"modified":"2018-10-28T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T01:28:21","slug":"this-day-in-history-the-start-of-the-great-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41589","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History &#8211; The Start of the Great Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>October 29<\/h4>\n<p>1682<br \/>\nWilliam Penn arrived in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>1787<br \/>\nMozart&#8217;s opera Don Giovanni debuted in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>1911<br \/>\nAmerican newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, S.C.<\/p>\n<p>1923<br \/>\nThe Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.<\/p>\n<p>1929<br \/>\nThe New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>1956<br \/>\nIsrael invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>1964<br \/>\nThe Star of India and other gems were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.<\/p>\n<p>1966<br \/>\nThe National Organization for Women was founded.<\/p>\n<p>1998<br \/>\nJohn Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77.<\/p>\n<p>2004<br \/>\nEuropean leaders signed the European Union&#8217;s first constitution.<\/p>\n<p>2008<br \/>\nA 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Baluchistan, one of Pakistan&#8217;s poorest regions. 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Kitaj<br \/>\npainter (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dreyfuss<br \/>\nactor (1947)<\/p>\n<p>Winona Ryder<br \/>\nactress (1971)<\/p>\n<p>Gabrielle Union<br \/>\nactor (1972)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 29 1682 William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania. 1787 Mozart&#8217;s opera Don Giovanni debuted in Prague. 1911 American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, S.C.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":41590,"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-41589","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\/10\/migrant-mother-1397009_1920.jpg?fit=1477%2C1920&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\/41589","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41591,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41589\/revisions\/41591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}