历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-18

January 18th, 1943During World War Two, the Soviet Union says it's broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. But another year passes before the sieges find lifted in the city, now known as St. Petersburg, Russia. 1912,British explorer Robert F. Scott

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-03-30

March 30th, 1981. Outside a Washington hotel, John Hinckley Jr. shoots President Ronald Reagan and 3 others. Presidential aide Lyn Nofziger: The President has been shot once in the left chest, the bullet entered from his left side. The shooting serio

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-03-31

March 31st, 1968With America divided over the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson makes a surprise election year announcement. I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.1889In Paris, engine

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-02

April 2nd, 2005Pope John Paul II dies at his apartment in The Vatican at age 84. He led the Roman Catholic Church for 26 years and helped topple communism in Eastern Europe. May Christ give you his grace and his peace, overturning the barriers of div

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-02-08

February 8th, 1999In the Middle East, hundreds of world leaders, many of them bitter enemies, attend the funeral of King Hussein in Jordan. 1915The Birth of a Nation, a silent movie epic about the civil war premieres in Los Angeles. D.W. Griffiths wo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-16

April 16th, 2007A gunman opens fire on the campus of Virginia Tech, killing 32 students and faculty members before killing himself. The number of the victims made the shooting the deadliest in modern U.S. history. 1947，The country3's deadliest indu

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-03

April 3rd, 1968In Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives this speech on the night before his assassination: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now. Because I have been to the mounta

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-21

April 21th 1910Writer and humorist Mark Twain dies of heart disease in Redding, Connecticut at age 74. Among his works: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper. 1926We can make sense of the future if we understand the lessons of th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-09

April 9th, 1865The American Civil War effectively ends after four years and more than a half million deaths. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his forces to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. 2003, Iraqis c

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-27

April 27th, 1822. Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general who later served as president is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Grant led union forces during the wars final years, receiving the Confederate's surrender at Appomattox. 1521. Portuguese explore

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-05-01

May 1st, 2003, weeks after the US-led invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush announces: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. Bush speaks fro

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-10

April 10th, 1998, in Northern Ireland, peace talks conclude with a landmark deal aimed at ending 30 years of a bitter rival reason bloody attacks. Negotiators sign The Good Friday Agreement, calling for power-sharing between Protestants and Catholics

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-03-29

March 29th, 1951, In New York, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. They die in the electric chair two years later, the first American civilians to be executed for

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-14

April 14th, 1865...with mournful tread. Walk the deck my captain lies. Fallen cold and dead.In Washington, President Abraham Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater. Lincoln who led the United States through 4 year

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-13

April.13th, 1970. Apollo XIII is crippled on its way to the moon when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts in its command module. The 3 astronauts on board are forced to return to Earth relying on their lunar module as a lifeboat in space. 1743. Th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-11

April 11th, 1951During the Korean War, President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his command in Asia. General MacArthur is one of our greatest military commanders. But the cause of world peace is much more important than any indivi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-08

April 8th, 2005. At the Vatican, world leaders join pilgrims in Roman Catholic clergy in St. Peter Square for the funeral of Pope John Paul II. 1973. Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century dies at his home in France at age 91.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-04

April 4th, 1968The Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior is assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was 39 years old. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight,

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-06

April 6th, 1917. Over there, over there, / Send the word, send the word over there The United States enters WWI on the side of the Allies as Congress declares war on Germany. 1909. Explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson lead the first successful e

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-04-05

April 5th, 1986A bombing at a disco in what's then West Berlin kills an American soldier and a Turkish woman. The US retaliates more a week later with an air-raid on Libya narrowly missing its leader Moammar Gadhafi. 1964, Old soldiers never die, the