{"id":48073,"date":"2015-01-26T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/today_in_history_january_252015\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T04:00:02","slug":"today_in_history_january_252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48073","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can check <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/january\/25\/default.stm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/timelines.ws\/days\/01_25.HTML\">there<\/a>.  This is what stood out to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1759       Robert Burns (d.1796), poet and song writer, who wrote \u201d\u009dAuld Lang Syne\u201d\u009d and \u201cComin\u2019 Thru the Rye,&#8221; was born in Alloway, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>1861 Pres. Lincoln picked Ferdinand Schavers, a black man, as his first bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>1877 Congress determined the presidential election between Hayes and Tilden. Tilden  won the popular votes, while Hays won the electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>1919 The League of Nations plan was adopted by the Allies.<\/p>\n<p>1961 President Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.<\/p>\n<p>1970 The Robert Altman film &#8220;M*A*S*H&#8221; premiered in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>1971: Idi Amin ousts the Uganda president<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>What stood out to you&#8211;KSH?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can check here and there. This is what stood out to me: 1759 Robert Burns (d.1796), poet and song writer, who wrote \u201d\u009dAuld Lang Syne\u201d\u009d and \u201cComin\u2019 Thru the Rye,&#8221; was born in Alloway, Scotland. 1861 Pres. Lincoln picked<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48073\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}