历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-10

December 10th, 1964Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Norways capital Oslo. The clergyman and activist is honored for his nonviolent campaign to end segregation of African Americans in the south. I stil

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-11-17

November 17th, 1973，an embattled President Richard Nixon defends himself during the Watergate scandal. He tells the Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida. People have got to know, whether or not their presidents a crook. Wel

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-11

December 11, 1936Britains King Edward the VIII becomes the first and only monarch to voluntarily give up his countrys throne . Edward abdicates in order to marry an American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson and he takes the title of the Duke of Winds

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-01

December 1st, 1955Whats considered the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama. I would just like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and have the same rights and privileges as anybody else. Rosa Pa

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-18

February 18th 1885Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels is first published in the United States. 1861Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the newly formed Conf

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-11

February 11th, 1990Nelson Mandela is freed in South Africa after the black activist spends 27 years in captivity under the countrys apartheid rule. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. 4 years later, M

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-15

February 15th, 1898, We have remembered the Maine. The U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blows up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, then a Spanish colony. More than 260 crew members on board are killed in the blast. War breaks out between the U.S. and

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-17

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-19

February 19th 1945.Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-16

Feburary 16th 1862. A blow to the breakaway south during the civil war. Some fourteen thousand Confederate soldiers surrender to Union forces in the battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 2002. Families from the Walker County and around the world have b

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-21

Feb. 21st 1965to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice where the government can't give them justice. Malcolm X, the former Black Muslim leader is shot to death during a speech in New York City. He was 39. Three black Muslims are identi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-07

Feb 7th, 1964 I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. The Beatles arrives in New York for their first tour of the US among the stops of the Fab Four and appears on TVs Ed Sullivan Show. 1995Ramzi Yousef,mastermind of t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-25

February 25th 1986People power in the Philippines, long-time leader Ferdinand Marcos flees the country amid mass protest after a tainted election. Corazon Aquino who ran against Marcos in that election is installed as a new president. 1956In Moscow,

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-20

February 20th, 1962Godspeed, John Glenn, two, one, zero, roger! The clock is operating. Were under way. Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, lifting off aboard the Mercury space capsule Friendship 7. 2003A fire during a

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-29

February 29th, 2008Today is leap day which has one additional day at the calendar year. The extral calendar day is added every four years and has been since 46 B.C. On this day in 1940,Gone With the Wind wins 8 Oscars including best picture at the Ac

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-02

March 2nd, 1877. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared winner of Americas disputed presidential months earlier. Hayes moves into the White House instead of Democrat Samuel J. Tilden who had won the popular vote. 1931. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-03

March 3rd, 1991In Los Angeles, a scene caught on amateur video sparks an outcry in the United States. Police officers severely beat black motorist Rodney King after he is stopped for speeding. The following year, the four white officers charged in th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-04

March 4th, 1933. In Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as president. He pledges to lead America out of the Great Depression in his inaugural address. So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-12

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-02

August 2nd, 1964The Pentagon reports the first of two attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Days later, President Lyndon Johnson orders the first bombing raids on North Vietnamese military installations.