历史上的今天-Today in History

July 5th,1954Well, thats all right, mama. Thats all right for you. Thats all right mama, just anyway you do.A chapter during the dawn of rock and roll takes place at Sun records in Memphis, Tennessee. Thats where Elvis Presley records the song Thats

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August 1st, 1966Charles Whitman goes on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas clock tower in Austin. With a high-powered rifle, he kills fourteen people and wounds nearly three dozen others, hours after murdering his wife and mother. The kill

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July 23rd, 1967Black day in July, Motor city madness has touched the countryside.A week of race-related rioting erupts in Detroit, following a police raid on an after-hours club. The violence kills 43 people and injures more than 1,000 others, destro

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

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July 1st, 1863. The bloodiest battle of Americas Civil War begins between Union and Confederate forces in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1946. The worlds first peacetime test of nuclear weapon. The United States explodes a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Biki

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September 1st, 1939Start of World War II as Nazi Germanys dictator Adolf Hitler, invades neighboring Poland. The war last for the next 6 years, spanning from Europe and North Africa to Asia and Pacific. 2004A hostage crisis unfolds in southern Russia

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August 10th, 1977Accused Son of Sam, serial killer David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers New York. The 24-year-old postal worker is wanted for slaying six people and wounding seven others in nearby New York City. John Keenan is Chief of Detectives f

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August 16th, 1977I just never took the time. You were always on my mind. You were always on my mind.The last chapter for the King of Rock and Roll in Memphis, Tennessee. That's where singer Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland Mansion, at age 42. Hear

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August 25th, 1944During World War II, allied forces in Europe liberate Paris, ending 4 years of Nazi Germanys occupation of the French capital. 1875Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel, making the journey from Bri

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August 24th, 79 B.C. Catastrophe strikes as the long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupts east of Naples in what's now Italy. Volcanic ash buries the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing an estimated 20,000 people. 1992Hurricane Andrew smashes i

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August 27th, 1883One of the world's most devastating explosions is the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the south Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia killed some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra. 1908We have the opportuni

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August 30th, 1862During the American Civil War, the second battle of Bull Run ends in Manassas, Virginia. Union forces are defeated by the Confederates on the site of the war's first major clash the previous year. 1967In Washington, the Senate confir

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September 2nd, 1945World War II officially ends, six years in a day after the fighting began. Thats when Japan formally surrenders to the Allies on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. President Harry Truman tells Americans: The evil done by the Japa

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September 7th, 1940Nazi Germany begins heavy bombing of London and other major cities in Britain during World War II. CBS reporter Edward R. Morrow describes the devastation of what becomes known as the Blitz. One may see, in the light of flares, car

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August 15th, 1945whats known as V-J Day. The United States and its Allies mark the effective end of World War II after six years of fighting. They celebrate the defeat of the axis powers a day after Japan agrees to an unconditional surrender. 1969In

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September 9th, 1971Inmates seize control of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. After a four-day siege, police and guards storm the maximum security prison near Buffalo. The ordeal leaves 32 inmates and 11 prison employees dead with

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September 6th, 1901President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The gunman, Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who is executed the following month. Vice President Teddy Roosevelt succeeds McKinley when he dies more

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August 26th, 1920The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution takes effect giving women the right to vote. Carrie Chapman Catt is one of the leaders in the womens suffrage movement. Woman Suffrage is a long story of hard work and heartache, at least one

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August 11th, 1965In Los Angeles, 6 days of deadly rioting and looting erupt in the predominantly black section of Watts. 34 people are killed, more than a thousand others are injured and hundreds of buildings are devastated before order is restored.

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September 5th, 1972They are all gone, the Israeli Olympic team is destroyed, much of it, some of them are officials. A massacre of the Summer Olympic Games in Munich in what's then West Germany. Palestinian guerrillas attack the Israeli Olympic team,

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accelerationand deceleration operation
aerate
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Ali Bey
American Express Company
aneth
Ankaratra Mountains
APT application
aqueous type adhesive
armed bands
At Taiyibah
attacking
Auriscalpiaceae
autogenic drainage
basin and range landscape
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bituminous stabilization
blue emission line galaxies
bonsai tree
bossnappings
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buying outright
chord spacing ratio
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combined market and planning economy
comes off
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correction to program
d'hotel
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datum drag
Dengfeng group
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dog-day
employment standards
exhaustive research
fabric inspecting machine
fixed-ring lubrication
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Fort Sumner
four-channel multiplier
gas packed packaging
Gordon, Lord George
hadar
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helmitol
hyperboloid
incomplete rarefaction wave
insignis-pines
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loimaa (loyma)
machine control electronics
malignant cells
marangs
Mazaruni-Potaro Dist.
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meadow mice
meldenin
microfloatation
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raw shellfish
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rock python
Sangre de Cristo
sell ... at a loss
Sigües
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skinner
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SYD (system display)
taphouse
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tibetan sheep
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