{"id":43208,"date":"2019-01-18T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43208"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:13:45","slug":"this-day-in-history-nazi-seige-of-leningrad-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43208","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Nazi seige of Leningrad is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>January 18<\/h4>\n<p>1733<br \/>\nThe first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>1778<br \/>\nCaptain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).<\/p>\n<p>1782<br \/>\nDaniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>1788<br \/>\nThe First Fleet, carrying convicts and sheep, arrived in Australia&#8217;s Botany Bay.<\/p>\n<p>1912<br \/>\nThe ill-fated Scott expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover Amundsen had been there first.<\/p>\n<p>1943<br \/>\nThe Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken.<\/p>\n<p>1993<br \/>\nAll 50 states joined in the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Daniel Webster<br \/>\n1782\u20131852, American Statesman.<\/p>\n<p>Montesquieu<br \/>\njurist and political philosopher (1689)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Roget<br \/>\nlexicographer (1779)<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Glidden<br \/>\ninventor (1813)<\/p>\n<p>A.A. Milne<br \/>\nauthor (1882)<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Hardy<br \/>\nactor (1892)<\/p>\n<p>Cary Grant<br \/>\nactor (1904)<\/p>\n<p>Danny Kaye<br \/>\nactor, singer, comedian (1913)<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Costner<br \/>\nactor, filmmaker (1955)<\/p>\n<p>Elke Clijsters<br \/>\ntennis player (1985)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 18 1733 The first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston. 1778 Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"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-43208","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\/43208","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43209,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43208\/revisions\/43209"}],"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=43208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}