历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-12

December 12th, 2000More than a month after the votes are cast, Americans finally know who their next president will be. Republican George W. Bush becomes president elect after the divided US Supreme Court effectively halts recounts in Floridas contes

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-13

December 13th, 2003Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. US forces capture Iraq's ousted dictator Saddam Hussein nearly nine months after the fall of Baghdad. Saddam is caught while hiding in a hole under a farm house near his hometown of Tikrit. In 2006

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-14

December 14th 1799George Washington, the Revolutionary War general who became Americas first president dies at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia at age 67. 1911Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen and his group become the first men to reach the South

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-11

December 11th, 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 Win

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-17

December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft, dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957T

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-16

December 16th, 1773The Boston Tea Party takes place more than a year before the revolutionary war breaks out. American colonists board British ship to protest tea taxes and dump hundreds of chests of tea over board. 1944World War IIs battle of the Bu

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-15

December 15th, 1961An Israeli court sentences former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann to death for his role in the holocaust during World War II. He is hanged the following year, denying to the end his responsibility for the Nazis mass killing of Jews in

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-18

December 18th, 1944The US Supreme Court rules on the forced relocation and detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II. While the High Court opposes the relocation, it adds the Americans of Japanese ancestry who are undeniably loyal can no lo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-02-28

February 28th,1953In Britain, scientists say they found a 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 system

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-02-17

February 17th, 1992In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives his series of life sentences for his grisly string of murders. Dahmer had 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 2010-02-18

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 Co

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-02-19

February 19th, 1945In the final months of World War II, some thirty thousand US marines begin landing in Iwo Jima, that's where they fight months-long battle to seize the rest of the Pacific island from Japanese forces. 1942Also during World War II,

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-02-22

February 22nd,1732George Washington, the first president of United States is born in whats been the Virginia Colony. Washington commanded American forces during the Revolutionary War and led the Founding Fathers in drafting the US Constitution. 2006I

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