{"id":1780,"date":"2020-11-24T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2020-11-24T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:05:46","slug":"this-week-in-history-11-23-11-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/this-week-in-history-11-23-11-30\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History 11\/23-11\/30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>   <strong>November 23, 1887<\/strong>&#8211; the actor who played Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, was born in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>   <strong>November 24, 1859<\/strong>&#8211; Charles Darwin\u2019s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was first published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>   <strong>November 26, 1703<\/strong>&#8211; a \u201cGreat Storm\u201d lasting two days struck southern England, flooding the Thames and Severn Rivers, killing at least 8,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Great_Storm_1703_Goodwin_Sands_engraving-1024x525.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Great_Storm_1703_Goodwin_Sands_engraving-1024x525.png 1024w, https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Great_Storm_1703_Goodwin_Sands_engraving-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Great_Storm_1703_Goodwin_Sands_engraving-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Great_Storm_1703_Goodwin_Sands_engraving.png 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Image via Goodwin Sands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>   <strong>November 28, 1520<\/strong>&#8211; Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the Strait of Magellan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0  On the same day in <strong>1934<\/strong>&#8211; FBI agents killed bank robber George \u201cBaby Face\u201d Nelson near Barrington, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>   <strong>November 30, 1700<\/strong>&#8211; the Battle of Narva occurred as 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII invaded Norway, defeating a force of 50,000 Russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>   On the same day in <strong>1874<\/strong>&#8211; Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England. He would eventually become one of England\u2019s most famous and impactful Prime Ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 23, 1887&#8211; the actor who played Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, was born in London. November 24, 1859&#8211; Charles Darwin\u2019s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was first published. November 26, 1703&#8211; a \u201cGreat Storm\u201d lasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1781,"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\/11\/origin.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}