历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-13

December 13th, 2003Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.US forces capture Iraq's ousted dictator Saddam Hussein nearly nine months after the fall of Baghdad. Saddam is caught while hiding in a hole under a farm house near his hometown of Tikrit. In 2006,

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-10-25

October 25th, 1962In New York, the Cuban Missile Crisis takes center stage at the United Nations Security Council. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presents photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. Stevenson challenges Soviet Ambassador Valer

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-16

December 16th, 1773The Boston Tea Party takes place more than a year before the revolutionary war breaks out. American colonists board British ship to protest tea taxes and dump hundreds of chests of tea over board. 1944World War IIs battle of the Bu

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-17

December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957Th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-11-15

November 15th, 1864During the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman and his troops begin their March to the Sea. Their devastating campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia strikes at the heart of the Confederacy. 1806,In the Rocky Mo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-10

August 10th, 1977Accused Son of Sam, serial killer David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers New York. The 24-year-old postal worker is wanted for slaying 6 people and wounding 7 others in nearby New York City. John Keenan is Chief of Detectives for the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-09

September 9th, 1971Inmates seize control of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. After a four-day siege, police and guard storm the maximum security prison near Buffalo. The ordeal leads 32 inmates and 11 prison employees dead with h

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-05

September 5th, 1972You are welcome. Israeli Olympic team is destroyed much of it, some of them are officials. A massacre at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, in what's then West Germany. Palestinian guerrillas attack the Israeli Olympic team, killi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-12

September 12th, 2001It's the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed thousands of Americans. In New York, stunned rescue workers search for bodies in the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. And in Washington, Pres

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-11

There is a loud crashing sound and there is a pause for about whats taken and a screamer too and everyone just run everybody there is mass chaos.There are smoke, the black smoke and fire, do you see in there? Yes in there. There are indications that

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-13

September 13th, 1993In Washington, a step in the quest for peace in the Mideast. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands at the White House. That happens after they sign an accord in which Israel grants limited

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-15

And they died in Birmingham. September 15th, 1963, in Birmingham Alabama, a tragedy that galvanizes the Americas Civil Rights Movement. 4 black girls are killed when a bomb explodes during Sunday services at the 16 street Baptist Church. 3 Ku Klux Kl

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-16

September 16th, 1974President Gerald Ford announces a conditional amnesty program for deserters and draft evaders during the Vietnam War. I do not want to delay another day in resolving the dilemmas of the past, so that we may all get going on the pr

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-17

September 17th, 1862, what's considered the single bloodiest day in American history takes place during the Civil War. Thats when Union forces repel a confederate invasion of Maryland in the Battle of Antietam. More than 20,000 soldiers on both sides

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-25

August 25th, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces in Europe liberate Paris, ending 4 years of Nazi Germanys occupation of the French Capital. 1875, Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel, making the journey from

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-18

September 18th, 1850In Washington, Americas divide between North and South over slavery deepens. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slave owners to reclaim slaves which escape to other states. The law helps fill the outbreak of the civi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-20

September 20th, 1519Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. The Portuguese explorer is killed in the Philippines, but one of his ships eventually becomes the first to circle the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-21

September 21st 1998They did not constitute sexual relations as I understood that term to be defined.TV networks air President Bill Clinton's federal grand jury testimony about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. During hi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-23

We did get something as a gift after the election.September 23rd, 1952 Future president Richard Nixon uses what's then a new medium, television, to make his case. Nixon, at that time the Republican candidate for vice president, denies charges of use

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-18

August 18th, 1227, Genghis Khan, one of the worlds greatest conquerors, dies. At the time the Mongol Empire founded by Khan stretched to cross Asia. 1920, Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing womens right to vo