历史上的今天-Today in History

April 23rd, 1564. To be or not to be: that is the question. William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on this day in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The poet and dramatist known as The Bard one of the Greats in world literature dies on the same

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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

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April 28th 1945A violent end for Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini during the last days of WWII in Europe. Italian resistance fighters execute Mussolini and his mistress as they try to flee the country. 1937Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq for decade

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April 29th, 1992. Rioting hits Los Angeles killing 55 people and causing a billion dollars in property damage. It happens after 4 white police officers are acquitted of almost all state charges in the videotape beating a black motorist Rodney King. A

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May 5th 1961Alan Shepard becomes America's first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. three, two, one, zero, ignition. Shepard makes a 15-miunte suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7. 1821France's former

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May 6th, 1937. In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the German dirigible Hindenberg burns into flames and crashes upon arriving for landing. Reporter Herbert Morrison is there. Its a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flame now, and the fla

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May 8th, 1945, VE day as the Allies celebrate the end of World War II in Europe with Nazi Germanys defeat. In Washington, President Truman reminds Americans that the war in the pacific is not over yet. Our victory is but half-won. The West is free, b

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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

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May 7thIn 1915, during World War I, a torpedo from a German submarine sinks the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland. Nearly 1200 people aboard the British ocean liner including 128 Americans are killed. The sinking helps push the United States into jo

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March 27th, 1997, In Nashville, Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., meets with James Earl Ray in prison for assassinating the civil rights leader. I just wanna ask you for the record: hum, did you kill my father? No, no, I didn't. Dexter King

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May 12th 1949The Soviet Union announces an end to its blockade of Berlin, one of the first major crises of the Cold War. Our reporter from the US Armed Forces Radio Network is on the scene and then divided Germany city. The first vehicles are going t

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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

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May 13th, 1981. Somebody said: its the Pope. Hes shot. You know, we just shocked, it was just unbelievable. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded by a Turkish gunman in St. Peters Square. The pontiff recovers and a few years

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May 14th, 1607Colonists travel ashore to Virginia to begin building Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the western hemisphere. 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark leave Saint Louis on their expedition to explore the Louisiana t

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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

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June 18th 1940 In London, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tells his people to prepare for their struggle against Nazi Germany during WWII. The history of British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years. Man will still say, this

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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

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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 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

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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

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admiral's barge
all in a twitter
anathemata
anti-slide pile
apicycline
apparatus of Goormagtigh
appropinquated
arcuatile
arm of anchor
attain fame
back-check
bamboo raft
Barneycarroll
beets
before the fact
bessera eleganss
Bhupinder
biberon
blackbox
Briedel
bule
carpitron
cartographic generalization of relief
Castanopsis hainanensis
centi-seconds
CESP
chilled-shot drill
churro
cirrhina molitorella
clacton-on-sea (clacton)
closing of tongue
composite still
Compsomyia macellaria
connecting curve
cytarabine hydrochloride
Darcies
data persistence
DCIP
demand surplus
deoxidizer
disidentifies
electroantennographic
Euphorbia altaica
European and American Airways Ltd.
extrabulbar
Exxon Valdez
fallen apart
ferric trichloride
fibrillose
flexible-roller
Fount.
fried pomfret
Gerres
Gregerson-Boas' tests
guardianship court
Guenz
ignition belt
in the time of peril
international immobility of capital
lick the daylights out of
lipreadings
list notation
loose twist
lvidd
mameluke
market abuse
meta directing
middle period
milk equivalent
mishearken
multlvariate analysis
off-colour reputation
oil flinger
on the scrapheap
optical timing extraction
origanum Tourn.ex L.
over board out reach of grab
Pasvalio Rajonas
Ponil
propellant weight fraction
quarier
quiniferous
radioactive release
recapitalization
reexpels
research joint venture
ronnen
routing node
self-diffidence
sextic curve
significances
smallstraffic
solar terrestrial relationships
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special somatic sensory
spectrophotometric evaluation
spinachy
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the spirit world
throttle type rotor
time charges earned ratio
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