{"id":43009,"date":"2019-01-03T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43009"},"modified":"2019-01-03T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T14:20:26","slug":"this-day-in-history-birthday-of-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43009","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Birthday of Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>January 03<\/h4>\n<p>1521<br \/>\nMartin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.<\/p>\n<p>1777<br \/>\nGeorge Washington defeated Cornwallis&#8217;s forces at the Battle of Princeton.<\/p>\n<p>1833<br \/>\nBritain seized control of the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n<p>1870<br \/>\nConstruction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.<\/p>\n<p>1920<br \/>\nThe New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the &#8220;curse of the Bambino&#8221; that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.<\/p>\n<p>1947<br \/>\nCongressional proceedings were televised for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>1958<br \/>\nSir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland.<\/p>\n<p>1959<br \/>\nAlaska became the 49th state in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1962<br \/>\nPope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n<p>1967<br \/>\nJack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy&#8217;s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.<\/p>\n<p>1987<br \/>\nAretha Franklin became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>1990<br \/>\nManuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Lucretia Mott<br \/>\n1793\u20131880, American feminist.<\/p>\n<p>Cicero<br \/>\norator (106)<\/p>\n<p>Anne Ayres<br \/>\nnun (1816)<\/p>\n<p>Father Damien<br \/>\nmissionary (1840)<\/p>\n<p>J.R.R. Tolkien<br \/>\nauthor (1892)<\/p>\n<p>ZaSu Pitts<br \/>\nactor (1894)<\/p>\n<p>Victor Borge<br \/>\npianist, comedian (1909)<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Leone<br \/>\nfilmmaker (1929)<\/p>\n<p>Mel Gibson<br \/>\nactor, director, producer (1956)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schumacher<br \/>\nauto racer (1969)<\/p>\n<p>Danica McKellar<br \/>\nactor (1975)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 03 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X. 1777 George Washington defeated Cornwallis&#8217;s forces at the Battle of Princeton. 1833 Britain seized control&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-43009","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\/43009","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=43009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43011,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43009\/revisions\/43011"}],"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=43009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}