{"id":1663,"date":"2020-10-26T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:06:48","slug":"this-week-in-history-10-18-10-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/this-week-in-history-10-18-10-24\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History 10\/18 &#8211; 10\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>October 18, 1867 <\/strong>the rules for American football were formulated in a meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale Universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day in <strong>1968<\/strong>, US athletes Tommi Smith and John Carlos gave \u201cblack power\u201d salutes while receiving their Olympic medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 20, 1977<\/strong>&#8211; A charter plane crashed in Mississippi, killing 3 members of the band <em>Lynyrd Skynyrd, <\/em>along with their assistant road manager, the pilot, and the copilot. It was reported that the pilot and copilot were \u201cignorant\u201d to issues with the plane prior to takeoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1666\" width=\"578\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/crash.jpg 640w, https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/crash-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><figcaption>Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, Guitarist Steve Gaines, and Vocalist Cassie Gaines died in the crash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 22, 1918<\/strong>&#8211; The cities of Baltimore and Washington ran out of coffins during the \u201cSpanish Influenza\u201d epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 24, 1992<\/strong>&#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays won the world series, becoming the first baseball team from outside the US to win the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 1867 the rules for American football were formulated in a meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale Universities. On the same day in 1968, US athletes Tommi Smith and John Carlos gave \u201cblack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/fist.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}