{"id":48700,"date":"2015-03-05T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/today_in_history_march_5\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:20:46","slug":"today_in_history_march_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48700","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: March 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can check <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/march\/5\/default.stm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/timelines.ws\/days\/03_05.HTML\">there<\/a>.  This is what stood out to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1558&#8211;Smoking tobacco was introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>1770&#8211;British troops taunted by a crowd of colonists fired on an unruly mob in Boston and killed five citizens in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre.<\/p>\n<p>1868&#8211;The Senate was organized into a court of impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson, who was later acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>1946&#8211;Winston Churchill appeared as Pres. Truman&#8217;s guest at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. and delivered his \u201d\u009dSinews Of Peace\u201d\u009d speech later known as the \u201cIron Curtain Speech:\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>1956&#8211;US court victory for black students&#8211;The United States Supreme Court upholds a ban on racial segregation in state schools, colleges and universities.<\/p><\/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: 1558&#8211;Smoking tobacco was introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes. 1770&#8211;British troops taunted by a crowd of colonists fired on an unruly mob in Boston and killed five<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48700\">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":[39,50,209,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700","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=48700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}