{"id":42945,"date":"2018-12-23T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42945"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:58:02","slug":"this-day-in-history-twas-the-night-before-christmas-is-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=42945","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; &#8220;&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas&#8221; is published"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>December 23<\/h4>\n<p>1783<br \/>\nGeorge Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>1788<br \/>\nMaryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>1823<br \/>\nThe poem &#8220;A Visit from St. Nicholas&#8221; (&#8220;&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas&#8221;), written by either Clement C. Moore or Maj. Henry Livingston, Jr., was published in the Troy Sentinel of New York.<\/p>\n<p>1913<br \/>\nPresident Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the Federal Reserve System.<\/p>\n<p>1947<br \/>\nThe transistor was unveiled by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley.<\/p>\n<p>1948<br \/>\nHideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed.<\/p>\n<p>1986<br \/>\nDick Rutan and Jeana Yeager completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling aboard the experimental airplane Voyager.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Akihito<br \/>\n1933\u2013, emperor of Japan<\/p>\n<p>Richard Arkwright<br \/>\ninventor (1732)<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Smith<br \/>\nreligious leader (1805)<\/p>\n<p>James Duke<br \/>\nindustrialist (1856)<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Monroe<br \/>\neditor, critic, and poet (1860)<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Breedlove Walker<br \/>\nbusinesswoman, philanthropist (1867)<\/p>\n<p>Yousuf Karsh<br \/>\nphotographer (1908)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Bly<br \/>\nwriter (1926)<\/p>\n<p>Wesley K. Clark<br \/>\nsoldier and political figure (1944)<\/p>\n<p>Susan Lucci<br \/>\nactor (1946)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 23 1783 George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army. 1788 Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the District of Columbia.&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":[69,106,103,1495,290,6131],"class_list":["post-42945","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\/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\/42945","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=42945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42946,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945\/revisions\/42946"}],"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=42945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}