{"id":528656,"date":"2010-04-15T03:53:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T07:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/d3b28f55ee7d3d68e522aa08f67a06f1"},"modified":"2010-04-15T03:53:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T07:53:37","slug":"what-happened-on-this-day-in-history-april-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528656","title":{"rendered":"What Happened On This Day In History, April 14th?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day April 14th:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q1\/q10\/q107\/q1073\/q107387_79940_923_2393882882_9317266cb7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22832936@N07\/\" >Believe Collective<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Five days after Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate forces to the Union, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, and went with his wife to Ford&#8217;s Theatre, to see a famous play called Our American Cousin.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.&nbsp;&nbsp;Booth believed he was avenging the North&#8217;s tyranny of the South.<\/p>\n<p>On this day 1975, Operation Babylift occurred, lifting thousands of Vietnamese babies (orphans) to the USA.&nbsp;&nbsp;On April 4th, hundreds had died when the plane carrying them crashed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Wonder why they took all those babies&#8230; What do US service men do when they&#8217;re not involved in incidents of friendly fire?<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1988, Russian Soviet forces finally admitted defeated and pulled out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 2003, Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein fell to US forces, without much resistance at all.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/ZkpXyClBhnM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day April 14th: Believe Collective Five days after Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate forces to the Union, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, and went with his wife to Ford&#8217;s Theatre, to see a famous play called Our American Cousin.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.&nbsp;&nbsp;Booth believed he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}