{"id":43275,"date":"2019-01-24T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43275"},"modified":"2019-01-24T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:03:25","slug":"this-day-in-history-beginning-of-the-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43275","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Beginning of the gold rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>January 24<\/h4>\n<p>41<br \/>\nRoman emperor, Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula (meaning Little Boot\u2014he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>1848<br \/>\nGold was first discovered in California, in Sutter&#8217;s mill. When President Polk announced the news in December, the gold rush began.<\/p>\n<p>1908<br \/>\nRobert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England.<\/p>\n<p>1943<br \/>\nThe Casablanca Conference with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill concluded.<\/p>\n<p>1965<br \/>\nWinston Churchill died in London at age 90.<\/p>\n<p>1972<br \/>\nJapanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on.<\/p>\n<p>1986<br \/>\nVoyager Two space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus.<\/p>\n<p>1993<br \/>\nThe first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, died.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nThe Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Edith Wharton<br \/>\n1862\u20131937, American Novelist.<\/p>\n<p>William Congreve<br \/>\ndramatist (1670)<\/p>\n<p>Frederick the Great<br \/>\nPrussian King (1712)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Motherwell<br \/>\nartist (1915)<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Borgnine<br \/>\nactor (1917)<\/p>\n<p>Maria Tallchief<br \/>\nballerina (1925)<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Neville<br \/>\nsinger (1941)<\/p>\n<p>Warren Zevon<br \/>\nsinger, songwriter (1947)<\/p>\n<p>John Belushi<br \/>\nactor, comedian (1949)<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou Retton<br \/>\ngymnast (1968)<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Lillard<br \/>\nactor (1970)<\/p>\n<p>Mischa Barton<br \/>\nactor, model (1986)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 24 41 Roman emperor, Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula (meaning Little Boot\u2014he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered. 1848&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":39437,"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-43275","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\/08\/gold-513062_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1440&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\/43275","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=43275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43276,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43275\/revisions\/43276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}