历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-25

March 25, 1965. 25,000 civil rights marchers arrive at the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. leads the marchers in protesting the denial of voting rights to blacks in the South. However difficult the moment, however frustra

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-28

March 28th, 1979America's worst commercial nuclear accident takes place at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Though the health effects are considered small, the accident strengthens opposition to the nation's nuclear power in

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-27

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-26

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-15

March 15, 44BC, the ides of March in Ancient Rome, thats when Dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles included Brutus and Cassius. 1965, in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson urges Congress to pass an effective voting rights bil

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-02

February 2nd 1943. A major victory for the Soviet Union during World War II as the last of Nazi Germanys forces in the battle of Stalingard, surrender. The Nazis and their Axis partners lost some 800,000 troops in the month-long battle. The Soviet lo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-05

March 5th, 1770The Boston Massacre takes place, an event that contributes to the outbreakof the American Revolution a few years later. It happens when British soldiers in Boston, taunted by a crowd of American colonists, open fire and kill five peopl

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-08

March 8th, 1965, America deepens its military involvemnt in Southeast Asia, as the first US combat troops land in South Vietnam. 3,500 marines arrive to defend the US air base in Da Nang. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams is there. The marine

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-06

March 6th, 1836, So all of Texas will know and remember the Alamo. In San Antonio, the Alamo falls to Mexican forces ending a 13-day siege of rebel Texans fighting for their independence. 1857, the US Supreme Courts decision in the Dred Scott case br

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-09

March 9th, 1954. Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joe McCarthys anti-Communist campaign. Murrow critically reviews McCarthys tactics on his See It Now Program on CBS. The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-10

March 10th, 1876 In Boston, Alexander Graham Bell successfully tests his inventionthe telephone. Bell's assistant hears him say through the device, Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.1969In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to as

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-13

March 13th,1852Uncle Sam, the iconic symbol of the United States debuts as a cartoon character in the New York newspaper. 1925, in Tennessee, a law that prohibits the teaching of the theory of evolution takes effect. Months later the law is challenge

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-17

March 17th 461 A.D. Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron saints for whom St. Patrick's Day is named dies in the Irish village of Saul. Other authorities say Patrick's death happened on this day but more than 3 decades later in 493 A.D. 2003President Georg

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-18

March 18th, 1965. Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space. The cosmonaut from whats then the Soviet Union leaves his Voskhod 2 capsule secured by a tether. Astronaut Ed White makes the first American space walk months later. 1922. In

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-19

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-04-25

March 22nd, 1765, Britain enacts the Stamp Act to raise money from its American colonies. But the colonies balk the taxation without representation and the Act was repealed the next year. The conflict helps set the stage for American Revolution in th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-07

A Bloody Sunday for Americas civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama, thats where state troopers and a sheriffs posse attack civil rights marchers pushing to register black voters. The violence leads to two more high-profile marches and later the pas

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-23

March 23rd, 1775. A famous call for American independence from Britain. Patrick Henry tells the Virginia Provincial Convention Give me liberty, or give me death. The American Revolution begins just weeks later. 1933. Germanys Parliament, the Reichsta

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-21

March 21st, 1965Civil rights demonstrators led by dr. Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It happens weeks after marchers pushing for black voting rights in the South are attacked in Selma. The marches lead to t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-13

February 13th, 1935In New Jersey, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is found guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap and death of aviator Charles Lindberghs infant son. The following year, Hauptmann dies in the electric chair, insisting to the end that he