{"id":888,"date":"2010-11-15T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=888"},"modified":"2009-12-06T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T13:31:10","slug":"historical-anniversaries-december-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/historical-anniversaries-december-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Anniversaries for December 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>1st\tDecember\t1860 (150 years ago today)\tCharles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations<br \/>\n5th\tDecember\t1960 (50 years ago today)\tBoynton v. Virginia: The U.S. Supreme Court declares segregation in public transit to be illegal.<br \/>\n9th\tDecember\t1960 (50 years ago today)\tThe first episode of the long-running drama Coronation Street airs.<\/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-december-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-ek","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}