{"id":43479,"date":"2019-02-04T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43479"},"modified":"2019-02-04T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:55:13","slug":"this-day-in-history-washington-elected-first-u-s-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43479","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Washington elected first U.S. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>February 04<\/h4>\n<p>1783<br \/>\nEngland proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1787<br \/>\nShays&#8217;s Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.<\/p>\n<p>1789<br \/>\nGeorge Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1861<br \/>\nDelegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n<p>1945<br \/>\nRoosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.<\/p>\n<p>1948<br \/>\nCeylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>1969<br \/>\nThe Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.<\/p>\n<p>1974<br \/>\nPatricia Hearst, the granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.<\/p>\n<p>1976<br \/>\nBenjamin Britten, British composer, died.<\/p>\n<p>2003<br \/>\nThe country of Yugoslavia disappeared, to be replaced by the loose federation of Serbia and Montenegro.<\/p>\n<p>2004<br \/>\nThe Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Charles Lindbergh<br \/>\n1902\u20131974, American Aviator.<\/p>\n<p>Tadeusz Kosciusko<br \/>\ngeneral (1746)<\/p>\n<p>Fernand L\u00e9ger<br \/>\npainter (1881)<\/p>\n<p>Clyde William Tombaugh<br \/>\nastronomer (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Parks<br \/>\ncivil rights activist (1913)<\/p>\n<p>Betty Friedan<br \/>\nfeminist (1921)<\/p>\n<p>George Romero<br \/>\nfilmmaker (1939)<\/p>\n<p>Dan Quayle<br \/>\nvice president (1947)<\/p>\n<p>Oscar De La Hoya<br \/>\nboxer (1973)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 04 1783 England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States. 1787 Shays&#8217;s Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.&hellip; 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