{"id":875,"date":"2010-05-15T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=875"},"modified":"2009-12-06T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T13:23:04","slug":"historical-anniversaries-june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/historical-anniversaries-june-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Anniversaries for June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010.<br \/>\n\u2022 It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons.<br \/>\n\u2022 I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc).<br \/>\n\u2022 This is more meaningful than the &#8220;on this day in history&#8221; format (there is a 1\/365 chance that any event from the entire history of civilisation has a 1\/365 chance it happened &#8220;today&#8221;!)<br \/>\n\u2022 If you&#8217;d like to add to this list, please contact me with your suggestion or send a tweet using the hashtag #history2010.<\/p>\n<p>5th\tJune\t1910 (100 years ago today)\tChristopher Cockerell was born<br \/>\n5th\tJune\t1910 (100 years ago today)\tGeorge V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.<br \/>\n8th\tJune\t1810 (200 years ago today)\tSchumann was born<br \/>\n10th\tJune\t1910 (100 years ago today)\tHowlin&#8217; Wolf was born<br \/>\n30th\tJune\t1860 (150 years ago today)\tThe historic debate about evolution is held at the Oxford University Museum.<br \/>\n30th\tJune\t1960 (50 years ago today)\tBelgian Congo gains independence from Belgium; civil war follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010. \u2022 It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons. \u2022 I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc). \u2022&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/historical-anniversaries-june-2010\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-e7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}