历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-10

May 10th, 1869At Promontory, Utah --- a golden spike is driven into the ground, completing the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. 1933，Months after taking power in Germany, the Nazis stage massive public burnings of books conside

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-05

May 5th,1961 -Alan Shepard becomes Americas first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three, Two, One, Zero. Ignition. Shepard makes 15-minute suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom Seven. 1821 -Frances fo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-13

May 13th, 1981, Somebody said: its the Pope. Hes shot. You know, we just shocked, it was just unbelievable. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded by a Turkish gunman in St. Peters Square. The pontiff recovers and a few years

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-09

May 9th, 1960. Make way for the Pill. The Food and Drug Administration approves the oral contraceptive Enovid is safe for birth-control use. The pill is the first of its kind to be available by prescription in the United States, unleashing a social r

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-06

May 6th, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, the German dirigible Hindenburg burns into flames and crashes upon arriving for landing. Reporter Herbert Morrison is there. It's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen, the smoke and it's flames now and the f

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-22

May 22nd,1939In Europe, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign the Pact of Steel-- forming a military alliance just months before the start of World War II. 1972Richard Nixon begins the first visit by an American President to what's then Soviet Union. H

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-16

May 16th, 1868. In Washington, the U.S. Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson on the first article of impeachment against him. Johnson is eventually acquitted on all charges prompted by his clashes with the Post Civil War Congr

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-14

May 14th1607, colonists travel ashore to Virginia to begin building Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the western hemisphere. 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark leave Saint Louis on their expedition to explore the Louisiana t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-15

May 15th, 1972. Alabama governor George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Maryland. The shooting leaves Wallace paralysed for the rest of his life. In later years, he apologizes for his o

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-19

May 19th 1962Actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday for President John F. Kennedy. It happens during a Democratic Party fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden where Kennedy is guest of honor. 1925To resort to an

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-12

May 12th, 1949. The Soviet Union announces an end to its blockade of Berlin, one of the first major crisis of the Cold War. Our reporter from the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Network is on the scene and then divided German city. The first vehicles are goi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-17

May 17th, 1954In Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down racially segregated public schools as separate and unequal. The court's ruling in Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka fuels America's civil rights movement and the eventual end of

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-21

May 21st, 1927He made it. Charles Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy they call him. Aviator Charles Lindbergh completes the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He lands near Paris in the Spirit of St.Louis some 33 hours after taking off from New

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-24

May 24th, 1844Inventor Samuel Morse opens America's first telegraph line. He transmits the message What hath God wrought from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. 1994In New York, four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center the year before are each

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-25

May 25th, 1961President John F. Kennedy challenges the United States to aim high in its Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving a goal before this decade is out, of landing a man on the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-26

May 26th,1940During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops begin their evacuation from Dunkirk ,France. They escape Nazi Germanys advancing forces making their way across the English Channel to Britain. 1868 In Washington, President And

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-23

May 23rd,1945In Germany, top Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide in Allied custody weeks after the Third Reich fall in World War II. As head of Nazi police forces Himmler oversaw the killing of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and crushed

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-28

May 28th, 1934A medical miracle that later turns tragic on Ontario, Canada with Dionne quintuplets are born. Ontario's provincial government deems the girls' parents to be unfit and puts the quints in a specially-built hospital. That's where the iden

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-27

May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-29

May 29th1953, Climbers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Asias Himalaya. Years later, Hillary says he would not have made to the summit of the worlds highest peak without his partner. Team wor