{"id":43610,"date":"2019-02-10T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43610"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:18:57","slug":"this-day-in-history-chattanooga-choo-choo-goes-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43610","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; &#8220;Chattanooga Choo Choo&#8221; goes gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>February 10<\/h4>\n<p>1763<br \/>\nTreaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>1837<br \/>\nRussian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.<\/p>\n<p>1840<br \/>\nQueen Victoria married Prince Albert.<\/p>\n<p>1942<br \/>\nGlenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of &#8220;Chattanooga Choo Choo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1962<br \/>\nThe Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>1967<br \/>\nThe 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.<\/p>\n<p>1996<br \/>\nIBM&#8217;s computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.<\/p>\n<p>2005<br \/>\nPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller died.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Boris Pasternak<br \/>\n1890\u20131960, Russian Author.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison Gray Otis<br \/>\nsoldier and journalist (1837)<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Durante<br \/>\ncomedian, actor (1893)<\/p>\n<p>John F. Enders<br \/>\nbacteriologist (1897)<\/p>\n<p>Bertolt Brecht<br \/>\ndramatist (1898)<\/p>\n<p>Leontyne Price<br \/>\nopera singer (1927)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Wagner<br \/>\nactor (1930)<\/p>\n<p>Roberta Flack<br \/>\nsinger, songwriter (1939)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Allen<br \/>\nsinger, songwriter (1944)<\/p>\n<p>Mark Spitz<br \/>\nswimmer (1950)<\/p>\n<p>Laura Dern<br \/>\nactress (1967)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 10 1763 Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the&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-43610","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\/43610","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=43610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43612,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43610\/revisions\/43612"}],"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=43610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}