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{"source_url": "https://www.goerie.com", "url": "https://www.goerie.com/news/20200101/this-day-in-history-jan-1?rssfeed=true", "title": "This day in history, Jan. 1", "top_image": "https://www.goerie.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/fb/goerie-logo-200x200.png", "meta_img": "https://www.goerie.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/fb/goerie-logo-200x200.png", "images": ["http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=9289482&cv=2.0&cj=1", "https://www.goerie.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/fb/goerie-logo-200x200.png", "https://www.goerie.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/goerie_logo.png", "https://api.pymx5.com/v1/sites/track?event_type=PAGE_VIEW&noscript=1"], "movies": [], "text": "Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first day of leap year 2020. There are 365 days left in the year.\n\nToday's Highlight in History:\n\nOn Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be \"forever free.\"\n\nOn this date:\n\nIn 1785, The Daily Universal Register \u2014 which later became the Times of London \u2014 published its first edition.\n\nIn 1892, the Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.\n\nIn 1953, country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, West Virginia, while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.\n\nIn 1959, Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic.\n\nIn 1975, a jury in Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to the Watergate cover-up (Mardian's conviction for conspiracy was overturned on appeal).\n\nIn 1979, the United States and China held celebrations in Washington and Beijing to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.\n\nIn 1984, the breakup of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.\n\nIn 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.\n\nIn 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Sweden, Finland and Austria joined the European Union.\n\nIn 2005, desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid as the U.S. military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War. Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, died near Daytona Beach, Florida, at age 80.\n\nIn 2009, an Israeli warplane dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on the home of one of Hamas' top five decision-makers, instantly killing him and 18 others. The U.S. formally transferred control of the Green Zone to Iraqi authorities in a pair of ceremonies that also handed back Saddam Hussein's former palace.\n\nIn 2014, the nation's first legal recreational pot shops opened in Colorado at 8 a.m. Mountain time.", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": [], "publish_date": "Wed Jan  1 00:00:00 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first day of leap year 2020. There are 365 days left in the year.", "meta_lang": "en", "meta_favicon": "https://www.goerie.com/Global/images/favicons/goerie_favicon.ico", "meta_data": {"viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0", "og": {"site_name": "GoErie.com", "title": "This day in history, Jan. 1", "description": "Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first day of leap year 2020. There are 365 days left in the year.", "image": {"identifier": "https://www.goerie.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/fb/goerie-logo-200x200.png", "width": 200, "height": 200}, "type": "article"}, "msvalidate.01": "7E15F9269E2CE66F2A488ABB04B5015E", "apple-itunes-app": "app-id=700897580?at=1000lkC&ct=sb-goerie", "google-play-app": "app-id=com.ghm.goerie", "description": "Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first day of leap year 2020. There are 365 days left in the year.", "bt": {"pubDate": "20200101T00:10:24Z", "modDate": "20200101T00:10:00Z"}, "twitter": {"title": "This day in history, Jan. 1", "description": "Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1, the first day of leap year 2020. There are 365 days left in the year.", "card": "summary", "image": "https://www.goerie.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/fb/goerie-logo-200x200.png", "site": "@GoErie"}, "vf": {"unique_id": "sitePA-pub4514-1F66DAC3-8611-46F2-B1BC-BC93B4BEF8E1"}, "article": {"opinion": "false"}}, "canonical_link": "https://www.goerie.com/news/20200101/this-day-in-history-jan-1"}