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Act to raise money from its American colonies, but the colony's bulky taxation without representation and the Act is repealed the next year.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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-04

April 4th, 1968The reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was 39. And Ive seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a pe

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-05

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-06

April 6th. 1917. The United States enters World War I on the side of the Allies as Congress declares war on Germany. 1909. Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson lead the first successful expedition to reach the North Pole. 1896. The first m

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-07

April 7th. 1994. Civil 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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-17

March 17th,461 A.D. Saint Patrick, Irelands patron saint for whom Saint Patricks Day is named dies in the Irish village of Saul. Other authorities say Patricks death happened on this day that more three decades later in 493 A.D. 2003President George

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-29

April 29th,1992Rioting hits Los Angeles, killing 55 people and causing a billion dollars in property damage. It happens after four white police officers are acquitted of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of black motorist, Rodney Kin

历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-30

April 30th 1945Nazi Germany's dictator Aldof Hitler commits suicide during the last days of the 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 approaches bunker in Berli