{"id":2180,"date":"2012-01-19T00:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2012-01-02T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T13:48:02","slug":"75-years-today-19th-jan-1937-howard-hughes-breaks-air-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/20th-century\/75-years-today-19th-jan-1937-howard-hughes-breaks-air-record\/","title":{"rendered":"75 Years Ago Today (19th Jan 1937): Howard Hughes breaks the air record"},"content":{"rendered":"

American industrialist, film producer and aviator Howard Hughes broke the U.S. transcontinental air record, flying from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. The New York Times report of the event can be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American industrialist, film producer and aviator Howard Hughes broke the U.S. transcontinental air record, flying from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. The New York Times report of the event can be found here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/20th-century\/government-and-politics-pressure-groups\/","url_meta":{"origin":2180,"position":0},"title":"Government and Politics: Pressure Groups","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"March 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Site Redesign Redesigned the AS Government and Politics Pages. 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