历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-12

June 12th, 1987In the then divided city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan makes a Cold War challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall. More than two years later, the Berlin Wall falls, as communism collapses acr

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-17

June 17th, 1972. One of Americas greatest political scandals begins to unfold in Washington D.C. 5 burglars are arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. Larry O'Brien at the time the chairman of the DNC

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-05-09

May 9th, 1960Make way for The Pill. The Food and Drug Administration approves the oral contraceptive Enovid as safe for birth control use. The pill is the first of its kind to be available by prescription in the United States, unleashing a social rev

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-09

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-16

June 16th, 1858In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln launches his US Senate bid with the warning about America's split over slavery , arguing the issue must be resolved. Lincoln says a house divided against itself cannot stand. Three years later, the Civil Wa

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-19

June 19th, 1953Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. They were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, a case that gripped America early in the Cold W

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-22

June 22nd, 1940. France falls to Nazi Germany during WWII, forced to sign an armistice 8 days after German troops overrun Paris. On the same day a year later, the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, a move that proves disastrous for Adolf Hitlers Third Re

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-20

June 20th, 1893A jury finds Lizzie Borden innocent of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. The grisly killings and Borden's trial received massive media attention for its time in the United State

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-23

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 2014-06-15

June 15th, 1215. In Runnymede, England, King John signs the Magna Carta, or Great Charter, granting liberties to his barons. The document shapes concepts of democracy and constitutional law around the world for centuries to come. 1904. In New York Ci

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-24

June 24th, 1948. An early Cold War crisis as the Soviet Union cuts off all land and water routes between West Germany and whats then West Berlin. Its an attempt to force the United States and its western allies to abandon the city amid Soviet expansi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-25

June 25th 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, thous

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-05-27

May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-26

June 26th, 1963During the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy visits what's then West Berlin, showing solidarity with its citizens against communism. As a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner. The visit takes place exactly fifteen

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-27

June 27th, 1950President Harry Truman orders American air and naval forces into the Korean War, on the side of South Korea. That happens after the United Nations urges its members to help repel communist North Korea's invasion of the non-communist So

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-30

June 30th 1934 Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler begins his so-called Blood Purge of political and military rivals known as the Night of the Long Knives. 1906A major step forward for America's food and drug safety as President Theodore Roosevelt s

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-07-01

July 1st, 1863. The bloodiest battle of Americas Civil War begins between Union and Confederate forces in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1946. The worlds first peacetime test of nuclear weapon. The United States explodes the 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-07-02

July 2nd 1776In Philadelphia, the vote that sets the stage for America's declaration of independence two days later. The Continental Congress passes a resolution saying Britain's 13 colonies are and should be free and independent states. 1964In Washi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-29

June 29th 1972In Washington, the US Supreme Court effectively voids state death penalty laws with its decision in Furman vs. Georgia. The Court rules against how states are administering the death penalty at the time, calling their laws arbitrary and

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-07-07

July 7th, 2005 I just heard the bang. I looked around, the whole top of the bus and the back of it just came off.In London, suicide terrorist bombings strike three underground stations and a double decker bus. The blasts kill 52 victims and 4 bombers