历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-06

June 6th, 1944. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandie, France, in the D-Day invasion of WWII. Commanding the massive operation General Dwight Eisenhower who tells the troops: You are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-10

June 10th, 1967. In the Mideast, the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a cease-fire mediated by the United Nations. During the war, Israel seized the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip an

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-11

June 11th, 1963Alabama governor George Wallace takes a symbolic stand against racial immigration at the University of Alabama. He blocks a doorway on campus, defining a federal court order, allowing two black students to enroll at the school. I deem

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-05-29

May 29th 1953, Clemens Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay become the first to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Asias Himalayas. Years later, Hillary says he would not have made to the summit of the worlds highest peak without his partner. Teamwor

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-09

June 9th 1954On Capitol Hill, US Army counsel Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joseph McCarthy over his tactics in fighting Communist version during the Cold War. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?It's t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-21

June 21st, 1964In my mind, those three are on my mind, so I ask those killers, can you sleep again, those three are on my mind. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, three civil rights workers disappear while trying to help blacks register to vote. Michael S

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-22

June 22nd, 1940. France falls to Nazi Germany during WWII, forced to sign an armistice 8 days after German troops overrun Paris. On the same day a year later, the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, a move that proves disastrous for Adolf Hitlers Third Re

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-24

June 24th, 1948. An early Cold War crisis as the Soviet Union cuts off all land and water routes between West Germany and whats then West Berlin. Its an attempt to force the United States and its western allies to abandon the city amid Soviet expansi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-25

June 25th 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, thous

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-29

June 29th 1972In Washington, the US Supreme Court effectively voids state death penalty laws with its decision in Furman vs. Georgia. The Court rules against how states are administering the death penalty at the time, calling their laws arbitrary and

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-27

June 27th, 1950President Harry Truman orders American air and naval forces into the Korean War, on the side of South Korea. That happens after the United Nations urges its members to help repel communist North Korea's invasion of the non-communist So

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-01

July 1st, 1863. The bloodiest battle of Americas Civil War begins between Union and Confederate forces in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1946. The worlds first peacetime test of nuclear weapon. The United States explodes the 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-04

July 4th, 1776 In Philadelphia, the birth of the United States of America, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming Britain's 13 colonies to be free. 1826,Former Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson each die

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-05

July 5th, 1954. Well, that's all right mama, that's all right for you, that's all right to mama, just anyway you do...A chapter during the dawn of Rock and Roll takes place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Thats where Elvis Presley records the s

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-06

July 6th, 1957. They say a hot day is nice. And I've been working like a dogIn Liverpool, England, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both then in their teens meet for the first time. Just years later, they along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, ch

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-26

June 26th, 1963During the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy visits what's then West Berlin, showing solidarity with its citizens against communism. As a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner. The visit takes place exactly fifteen

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-07

July 7th, 2005 I just heard the bang. I looked around, the whole top of the bus and the back of it just came off.In London, suicide terrorist bombings strike three underground stations and a double decker bus. The blasts kill 52 victims and 4 bombers

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-20

June 20th, 1893 And he got his daughter, Lizzie, on a charge of homicide. Some folks say she didnt do it other say of course she did. But they all agree Miss Lizzie B. was a problem kinda kid. A jury finds Lizzie Borden innocent of murdering her fath

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-10

July 10th, 1940. The battle of Britain begins during WWII as Nazi forces start attacking southern England by air. Just weeks earlier, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned his people to prepare for the assault. If the British Empire and its

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-12

July 12th, 100 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Ancient Roman dictator and military conqueror who was assassinated on the Ides of March, is born. 1984,Walter Mondale picks the first woman to run on a major party ticket for the White House. The Democratic pres