历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-02-23

February 23rd, 1945An iconic image from World War II during the battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific. U.S. Marines, fighting Japanese forces, seize Mount Suribachi and raise an American flag twice in the same day. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosen

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-02-25

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-02-26

February 26th, 1993In New York, a bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. The blast kills six people and injures more than a thousand others. More than eight years later, the Twin Towers fall in the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-02

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-04

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 2010-03-05

March 15th, 1770. The Boston Massacre takes place, an event that contributes to the outbreak of 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 peo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-08

March 8th, 1965. America deepens its military involvement in Southeast Asia as the first US combat troops land in South Vietnam. Thirty-five hundred marines arrive to defend the US air base in Da Nang. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams is the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-09

March 9th,1954Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joseph R. 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 a

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-11

March 11th, 2004. Bombs strike a commuter rail network in Spain's capital, Madrid. The attack linked to the al-Qaeda terror network kills 191 people and wounds more than 2,000 others. 2006Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is found dead in

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-15

March 15th, 44BCThe ides of March, in Ancient Rome, thats when dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles that includes Brutus and Cassius. 1965In Washington, President Lyndon Johnson urges the congress to pass an effective voting ri

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-16

March 16th,1968The My Lai massacre takes place during the Vietnam War. US troops under the command of Lt. William Calley Jr. kill hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. High ranking army officers initially cover up the incident. But

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-19

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 tells

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-20

March 20th, 2003American and British forces invade Iraq from neighboring Kuwait. Associated Press correspondent Ross Simpson is with the American marines. They knocked out a T-55, Iraqi tank and engaged some mechanized infantry. Thats a few minutes a

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-21

March 21st, 1965Civil rights demonstrators led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 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 the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-22

March 22nd, 1765Britain enacts the Stamp Act to raise money from its American colonies, but the colony's bulky taxation without representation and the Act is repealed the next year. The conflict helps set the stage for the American Revolution in the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-23

March 23rd, 1775A 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. 1933Germany's Parliament, the Reichstag e

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-26

March 26th. 1979. In Washington, leaders of Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty at the White House. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin: No more war, no more bloodshed, no more bereavement. Peace unto you, shalom! Salaam, forever!Egyptian Presid

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-28

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 2010-03-30

March 30th1981Outside a Washington hotel, John Hinckley Jr. shoots President Ronald Regan and three others. Presidential aide Lyn Nofziger: The President has been shot once in the left chest. The bullet entered from his left side. The shooting seriou

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-02

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 divi