历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-31

March 31st ,1968 - With America divided over the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson makes a surprise election year announcement. I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.1889 - In Paris,

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-09

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 d

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-28

March 28th, 1979 - America'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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-23

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 Reichs

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-29

March 29th, 1951 - In New York, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. They die in the electric chair two years later, the first American civilians to be executed fo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-26

March 26 ,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. Egypt President

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-01

April 1st, 2001 - Slobodan Milo?evi? is arrested after a standoff outside his Belgrade villa. The former Yugoslav leader is soon transported to the Netherlands to face charges before UN war crimes tribunal. Milosevic dies in custody 5 years later whi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-30

March 30th, 1981 - Outside a Washington Hotel, John Hinckley Junior shoots President Ronald Reagan 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 shooti

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-18

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 -

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-20

Mar 20th, 2003 - American and British forces invade Iraq from neighbouring Kuwait.Associated Press correspondent Ross Simpson is with the US Marines.See a gala T-55 Iraqi tank and give some mechanized infantry .Just a few minutes and we cross the ber

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-05

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-03

April 3rd, 1968 - In Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives this speech on the night before his assassination: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now. Because I have been to the mou

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-04

April 4th, 1968 - The Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior is assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was 39 years old. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonigh

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-09

April 9th, 1865 - The American Civil War effectively ends；after four years and more than a half million deaths. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his forces to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. 2003 - Ir

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-10

April 10th 1998 - in Northern Ireland, peace talks conclude with a landmark deal aimed at ending 30 years of a bitter rival reason bloody attacks. Negotiators sign The Good Friday Agreement, calling for power-sharing between Protestants and Catholics

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-05

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-06

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 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 2011-04-24

April 24th, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen are killed when an abortive mission to free the American hostages in Iran ends in disaster. President Jimmy Carter: It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when probl

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-17

April 17th,1961 - Hundreds of Cuban exiles trained by the CIA invade Cuba's Bay of Pigs trying to topple Fidel Castro from power. But the invasion fails a political embarrassment for President John F. Kennedy just months after taking office. This was

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-25

April 25th, 1874Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. In spite of the great distance bodily separating us, you hear my voice as clearly and distinctly as I think you should. 1507,America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after