1898 – Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie\u00a0discover Radioactivity.<\/p>\n
1957 – Afro-Asian conference opens in Cairo.<\/p>\n
2003 – A destructive earthquake hit Qom in Iran, leaves a big number of people dead.<\/p>\n
2004 – More than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a tsunami triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n
Born Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1893 – Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong was born in Hunan province.<\/p>\n Passed away:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1972 – Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, died at age 88.<\/p>\n 1974 – Syrian renowned singer Farid al-Atrash.<\/p>\n 2006 – Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1898 – Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie\u00a0discover Radioactivity. 1957 – Afro-Asian conference opens in Cairo. 2003 – A destructive earthquake hit Qom in Iran, leaves a big number of people dead. 2004 – More than 230,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed by a tsunami triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}