{"id":42680,"date":"2018-12-08T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42680"},"modified":"2018-12-07T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:03:46","slug":"this-day-in-history-john-lennon-shot-and-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42680","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; John Lennon shot and killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>December 08<\/h4>\n<p>1854<br \/>\nPope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.<\/p>\n<p>1886<br \/>\nThe American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>1941<br \/>\nCongress declared war on Japan and the U.S. entered World War II.<\/p>\n<p>1949<br \/>\nCommunist attacks forced the Chinese Nationalist government to flee to the island of Formosa (Taiwan).<\/p>\n<p>1978<br \/>\nFormer Israeli prime minister Golda Meir died.<\/p>\n<p>1980<br \/>\nJohn Lennon, former member of the Beatles, was shot and killed in New York City by a deranged fan.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nPresident Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.<\/p>\n<p>1993<br \/>\nPresident Bill Clinton signed The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Eli Whitney<br \/>\n1765\u20131825, American inventor.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, Queen of Scots<br \/>\nqueen (1542)<\/p>\n<p>Christina<br \/>\nqueen of Sweden (1626)<\/p>\n<p>Aristide Maillol<br \/>\nsculptor (1861)<\/p>\n<p>Jean Sibelius<br \/>\ncomposer (1865)<\/p>\n<p>Diego Rivera<br \/>\npainter (1886)<\/p>\n<p>James Thurber<br \/>\nhumorist (1894)<\/p>\n<p>Lee J. Cobb<br \/>\nactor (1911)<\/p>\n<p>Sammy Davis, Jr.<br \/>\nsinger, actor (1925)<\/p>\n<p>David Carradine<br \/>\nactor (1936)<\/p>\n<p>Jim Morrison<br \/>\nrock musician (1943)<\/p>\n<p>Kim Basinger<br \/>\nactor (1953)<\/p>\n<p>Teri Hatcher<br \/>\nactor (1964)<br \/>\nSinead O&#8217;Connor<br \/>\nsinger, songwriter (1966)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 08 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. 1886 The American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":42404,"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":[69,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-42680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dayinhistory","tag-fhsu","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\/11\/This-Day-In-History.jpg?fit=1200%2C670&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\/42680","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=42680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42681,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42680\/revisions\/42681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}