历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-16

January 16th, 1991. Start of Operation Desert Storm as an American-led coalition begins bombing targets in Iraq and Kuwait. It happens after Saddam Hussein fails to meet a U.N. deadline on withdrawing from Kuwait. President George H. Bush: Five month

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-12

January 12th 1991. Just days before UN deadline, Congress authorizes President George H.W. Bush to use force to expel Iraq form Kuwait. The action taken by the United States Congress today is a very important step in hopefully getting Saddam Hussein

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-11

January 11th, 1964, For the first time, the U.S. government warns that smoking may be hazardous to your health. Surgeon General Luther Terry: It is the judgment of the Committee that cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certa

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-10

January 10th, 1776. Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The pamphlet urges freedom for Britains colonies in America just months before the Declaration of Independence. 1863. All aboard, b

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-09

But as President, I must put the interests of America first. January 9th, 1913President Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon oversaw Cold War day time for the Soviet Union and China while winding down the Vietnam War. But he became

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-07

January 7th, 1789, the United States holds its first presidential election more than a decade after the Declaration of Independence. Americans vote for electors, who a month later, choose George Washington to be the nations first president. 1999, in

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-06

January 6th, 1412. According to Tradition, Joan of Arc, Frances national heroine and Catholic Saint is born in the village of Domrmy. 1838. Inventor Samuel Morse gives his first public demonstration of the telegraph, dots-dashes in all, in Morristown

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-05

January 5th 2000. The US government decides six-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba. That move touches off angry protests by Cuban Americans in Miami, home of Elians US relatives. After a legal battle, the government seiz

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-03

January 3rd, 1777During the revolutionary war, General George Washingtons army routs the British in the battle of Princeton, New Jersey. That follows Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River and beating the Hessian's nearby Trenton. 1990

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-02

January 2nd, 2006The huge white light and a few seconds later, its like somebody set off a powder keg, it shocked house, rattled the windows and everything. An explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia kills one miner and traps a dozen underground.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-01

January 1st, 1959. I don't ambition power, money, nothing. Only to serve my country. In Cuba, Fidel Castro and his guerrillas topple Fulgencio Batista from power, clearing the way for decades of Communist rule. 1863. During the Civil War, President A

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-15

January 15th, 1929 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta. King's non-violent campaign to end legal segregation of African-Americans in the south included the march on Washington. I have a dream, my 4 little children one day li

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-19

Jan.19th1809, poet and author Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. Among his classic dark tales, The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. 1807, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who surrender spell the end of the civil war, is born in Westmoreland Count

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-14

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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-12

December 12th, 2000More than a month after the votes cast, Americans finally know who their next president will be. Republican George W. Bush becomes president elect after the divided U. S. Supreme Court effectively halts recount in Florida contest p

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-06-23

June 23rd, 1972In Washington, a key moment for President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman during the Watergate scandal. He discussed using the CIA to block the FBI's probe of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headqua

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-22

December 22nd, 1989. A popular uprising topples Eastern Europes last hardline communist ruler, Nicolae Ceauescu of Romania. Days later, Ceauescu and his wife are tried and convicted by a military tribunal, then promptly shot by a firing squad. 2001.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-15

December 15th, 1961, an Israeli court sentences former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann to death for his role in the holocaust during World War II. He is hanged the following year, denying to the end his responsibility for the Nazis mass killing of Jews

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-19

December 19th, 1998, in Washington Bill Clinton becomes the second American president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. The Republican-controlled House impeaches Democratic Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice over the Monica

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-11-08

November 8th, 1923Nazi leader Adolf Hitler makes his first attempt to seize power in Germany. He launches a failed coup in the city of Munich, an event that becomes known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler ultimately achieves his goal when he becomes Ge