历史上的今天-Today in History

April 22nd, 1994. In New York, former President Richard Nixon dies at age 81, just days after suffering a stroke. Others may hate you. Those who hate you dont win unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. Nixon pursued Cold War detente an

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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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April 30th, 1945Nazi Germanys dictator Adolf Hitler commits suicide during the last days of World War II in Europe. Hitler and Eva Braun, his long time mistress and wife of one day take their own lives as Soviet troops approach his bunker in Berlin.

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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 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 country deadliest industr

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May 4th, 1970. This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio. A protest against the Vietnam War turns deadly at Kent University in Ohio. Thats where a national guardsman opens fire on anti-war students after the United States invades Cambodia. 4

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April 11th, 1951During the Korean War, President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his command in Asia. General MacArthur is one of our greatest military commanders. But the cause of world peace is much more important than any indivi

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April 18th, 1906A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, flattening buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll range between three-thousand and six-thousand in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an Am

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April 24th, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen are killed when an abortive mission to free the American hostages in Iran ends in disaster. President Jimmy Carter: It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when probl

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April 25th, 1874Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. In spite of the great distance bodily separating us, you hear my voice as clearly and distinctly as I think you should. 1507,America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after

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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 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 17th, 1961. Hundreds of Cuban exiles trained by the CIA invade Cuba's Bay of Pigs trying to topple Fidel Castro from power. But the invasion fails a political embarrassment for President John F. Kennedy just months after taking office. This was

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April 7th 1994Civil war erupts in Rwanda a day after its leader and the President of Burundi are killed in a mysterious plane crash. In the months that follow, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis and Hutu intellectuals are slaughtered in the cen

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April 1st, 2001. Slobodan Milo?evi? is arrested after a standoff outside his Belgrade villa. The former Yugoslav leader is soon transported to the Netherlands to face charges before UN war crimes tribunal. Milo?evi? dies in custody 5 years later whil

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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 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 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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April 5th, 1986 A bombing at a disco in what's then West Berlin kills an American soldier and a Turkish woman. The US retaliates more a week later with an air-raid on Libya narrowly missing its leader Moammar Gadhafi. 1964, Old soldiers never die, th

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Feb 28th, 1953, in Britain, scientists say and they found the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes. Years later, Francis Crick describes this discovery that he and fellow scientist James Watson made. Biological sy

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学英语单词
acid electrode
acoustic effect
afforestation
angitrit
annidation(ludwig 1948)
anserine reaction
application transaction program
Arundinaria amabilis
ask for a leave
atmospheric radio wave
back timing
Ban Yang Yong
Bantayan
body-building
borrower lender relationship
Brethren in Christ
by lease
cane bundler
capital messuage
cell-killing
chaum
checking sum
common utility
differentiable knot
dilatometric effeCt
diploparthenogenesis
dissuasions
double sling
drafting force
education for the elderly
electroacupuncture
false pimpernels
fencamine
frequency comparator
Goleszów
gpf (gross peaking factor)
graphite limiter
hammam
high pressure surge
Holophane
home supervision
hooked plate
hot wall
import-substitution strategy
influencing variable
isochronization
Kinmuck
Koester magnet steel
Kvashninskoye
kwilu (cuilo)
lagavulins
latent group
makes much account of
marahau
Massoretic
Mesogicea
Miniconjou
Nephronex
oligoelement
on pension
Oppenheim, E(dward) Phillips
order processing menu
outside window glass door
Park Gate
Phalaenopsis amabilis Bl.
phoney
pilot operated control
platform auger
point-wise
poststorm
primary stipe
printed electronic circuits
recording film plane
rigours
roadbuilders
safety classification
semifinished nut
servo-valve
she'd've
singing bowls
Socialist Labor Party
solasonidinee
stack gas monitor
stellaris
sterile distilled water
stoppage period
stretch-proof
subsidized loan
Systems Programming Language
Tha Song Yang
tranquilization
trans-interchange
Tuchow
tunnell
uncontrollableness
undervoltage device
vertical machining centre
vinegar stock
vision mixing system
volume curve method
wortworm
year round