{"id":42038,"date":"2018-11-08T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42038"},"modified":"2018-11-08T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:00:54","slug":"this-day-in-history-jfk-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42038","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; JFK elected President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>November 08<\/h4>\n<p>1889<br \/>\nMontana became the 41st state.<\/p>\n<p>1892<br \/>\nFormer president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>1923<br \/>\nAdolf Hitler attempted and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch.<\/p>\n<p>1960<br \/>\nJohn F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1966<br \/>\nEdward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>1994<br \/>\nAfter a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Edmond Halley<br \/>\n1656\u20131742, English Astronomer and Mathematician<\/p>\n<p>Bram Stoker<br \/>\nnovelist (1847)<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Mitchell<br \/>\nnovelist (1900)<\/p>\n<p>Martha Gellhorn<br \/>\ninternational correspondent (1908)<\/p>\n<p>Christiaan Barnard<br \/>\nsurgeon (1923)<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Raitt<br \/>\nblues-rock singer (1949)<\/p>\n<p>Parker Posey<br \/>\nactor (1968)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 08 1889 Montana became the 41st state. 1892 Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive&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-42038","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\/42038","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=42038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42039,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42038\/revisions\/42039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}