历史上的今天-Today in History

February 12th, 1809Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new nation.President Abraham Lincoln, who led the divided United States through the Civil War, is born in present-day Kentucky. Lincoln who opposed slave

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February, 17th 1992In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives his series of life sentences for his grisly string of murders. Dahmer has admitted to killing 17 young men and boys, some of whom he had mutilated and cannibalized. Just a few yea

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March 19th, 2003For the second time in a dozen years, an American-led coalition launches a war against Iraq. Cruise missiles and precision guided bombs are aimed at Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near the capital, Baghdad. President George W. Bush tel

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March 26th, 1979In Washington, leaders of Israel and Egypt sign a peace treaty at the White House. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, No more wars, no more bloodsheds, no more bereavements. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever. Egyptian Presid

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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学英语单词
a brown eye
acoustical unit
acrylonitril butadiene styrene resin
AMEEGA
angular process (mandible)
beanflower
Biggekerke
blonde moment
bottom sector gate
bread tree
buoyancy vent
cardrooms
cerebral penetrating wound
clusters of needles
COLREGS
come down hard on sb
concentric-wound coil
cornman
cumulative temperature
cymming
diazonium hexafluorophosphate
duration of breaker contact
evaporation from land
fear of missing out
figurative element of mark
flap inlet
focal acral hyperkeratosis
genus trionyxes
gizzes
Gobiidae
good conscience
gordon identity
Great Zimbabwe Ruins National Park
ground communication system
guaiacol
having a cow
hydrangea family
internal-control
international mile
key to disk system
kohner
Komi-Permyatskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
laelaps traubi
luidiid
mackerel gale
make oneself obeyed
mass mailing
maximum normal strain theory
McCloskey
measling
merzoite
methyl-hydrazine-sulfonic acid
mordors
mother's spot
nonmedically
nosographer
nucleus habenulae lateralis
onmod
ossebi
pear blight
Peristrophe tianmuensis
physiognomic categories
piexe handling time
pittari
Pleioblastus incarnatus
Preparation plant
printing-houses
Propacin
quadrature-axis synchronous impedance
radar conspicuous object
regulated value
reliability control
Rhabdophaga swainei
rocasil
rocklin
roll-driving shaft
roller lever activator
sample interval
seguidilla (spain)
shortened form
solid-state electrolyte oin sensor
source-destination order code
stichocyte
take the average
tangerine tree
task declaration
the lost generation
travia
treponemes
umbrella spray
unmoradanted
unobjectively
vacuum phototube
varix
velangiocarpy
Virignin
wadcutters
walens
washbasket
water starwort
western spruce
wet hydrogen