历史上的今天-Today in History

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

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August 11th 1965In Los Angeles, 6 days of deadly rioting and looting erupt in the predominantly black section of Watts. 34 people are killed, more than a thousand others are injured and hundreds of buildings are devastated before order is restored. I

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August 12th, 1972. The last American combat troops leave Vietnam. All remaining US troops are withdrawn the next year as part of the Paris Peace Accords. Vietnam is reunified under Communist rule more than 2 years after that ceasefire agreement is re

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August 13th 1961The Cold War division of Berlin deepens, leading to an iconic symbol of the conflict . East Germany seals the border between the citys west and east to halt the flight of refugees. Days later, construction begins on the Berlin Wall, m

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August 14th, 1945. This is a victory of more than arms alone; this is a victory of liberty over tyranny. In Washington, President Harry Truman announces Japans unconditional surrender, ending WWII. Weeks later, a surrender ceremony on the USS Missour

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August 15th, 1945, whats known as VJ Day. The United States and its Allies mark the effective end of World War II after 6 years of fighting. They celebrate the defeat of the axis powers a day after Japan agrees to an unconditional surrender. 1969. In

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August 16th, 1977 you are always on my mind. The last chapter for the King of Rock 'n Roll in Memphis, Tennessee. That's where singer Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland Mansion, at age 42. Heart disease and years of prescription drug abuse are the c

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August 17th, 1969. Hurricane Camille slams into the gulf coast, making landfall just east of the mounts of the Mississippi River. The Category 5 storm kills more than 250 people, more than 35 years before Hurricane Katrina devastates the region. 1998

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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

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August 9th, 1945The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Japan during WWII. This time, the target is the city of Nagasaki, where the nuclear blast kills an estimated 74-thousand people. President Harry Truman: If Japan does not surrender, bomb

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July 26th, 1948. President Harry Truman signs an executive order to effectively end racial segregation in the US military. It happens a year after Truman signs the National Security Act, which creates the Defense Department and the CIA. 1953. Fidel C

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June 7th, 1998In Jasper, Texas, three white men chain a black man James Byrd, Junior to a pickup truck, then drag him to his death. Two of the men who dragged Byrd are later sentenced to death for the crime. The third receives life in prison. 1948,Th

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June 8th, 632The Prophet Muhammad who founded the religion of Islam dies in Medina, part of what's now Saudi Arabia. Muhammad leaves no arrangement for a successor, creating a rift within Islam which lasts to this day. 1968Authorities announce a capt

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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

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July 23rd 1967Black day in July, Motor City madness has touched the countryside.A week of race-related rioting erupts in Detroit, following a police raid on an after-hours club. The violence kills 43 people and injuries more than 1,000 others, destro

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July 24th, 1974. What Ive stated from the beginning to be the truth has been the truth. In Washington, the US Supreme Court weighs in on the Watergate Scandal. It says President Richard Nixon must turnover subpoenaed White House tape recordings sough

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July 25th, 1956Disaster and rescue on the High Seas of the North Atlantic off the coast of New England. The Italian liner Andrew Adoria collides with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm, killing at least 51 people. Most on board the Andrew Adoria su

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July 27th, 1953. In Asia, the Korean War ends after more than three years of fighting, with an armistice signed at Panmunjom. President Dwight Eisenhower tells Americans. We think of those who were called upon to lay down their lives in that far-off

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July 28th, 1914Start of World War I as Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia and the rest of Europes major powers soon join the fighting. War breaks out a month after a Serb nationalist assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in

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July 29th, 1981. Britains Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, leads the ceremony. Charles Philip Arthur George, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife? I will

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学英语单词
agonizing reappraisal
ambipositions
Armstrong, Neil Alden
Asserculinia
autoionizational
biwensis
blue dogwood
brass-rule
budgeree
calcium sulphite
Canapi
checkerboard acreage
cinex strip
coherent detection
colo(u)r former
common pathway
compatible peripheral device
composite lattice
continued growth of embryo and seed
cylinder bar
derandomizes
diagram of curves
displacement ferroelectrics
dohle's disease
elect-bob-ril
equipment modification
exploding
fat graft
fire and rescue party
fitchett
flowering raspberry
genus Periophthalmus
GMP and QC of Drug
Herter, Christian Archibald
hip roofs
Hkedaung
Holy Innocents' Day
hutchie
hydris
hypertrophic rosaceas
illicium rhodantha hance
information flowrate
initial vulcanization step
input interrupt indicator
intellectural responsibility block
irish dances (ireland)
Krzynowłoga Mała
lending and borrowing
link motions
loaded organic phase
lock-in circuit
locus of problem
logarithmic sine
magneto-optic disk
material labo(u)r
Mendel's second law
middle density polyethylene
modal
Nampyong
navigating photography
nervi petrosus superficialis major
open feeder
optical constant
oratios
peafowl
phantom load
pidonia formosana
piecework wages
princeps
prison-breaking
pulse-inserting circuit
punch-through diode
Pyatts
random sample of size n
rate-of-fuel-flow indicator
rated wind pressure
redness of the skin or complexion
relieve valve
restie
salt hardening
salvia divinorums
satellite teaching
serviceable tool
shifting fork
Shtǔrkovo
Sir James Paul McCartney
solar daily variation
spawners
spindle trees
stock transfre
stop up
swartheld
tm (tone modulation)
tonsilla intestinalis
trading data
transient process
trinka
vocal tactile fremitus
wave one's hand
wrapstring
wuss, wussy
Yaou