历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-20

August 20th, 1998, American cruise missiles pound alleged Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. The attacks are retaliatory strike after the deadly bombings of two US embassies in East Africa just weeks earlier.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-10

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 6 people and wounding 7 others in nearby New York City. John Keenan is Chief of Detectives for the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-12

August 12th, 1972. The last American combat troops leave Vietnam. All remaining US troops are withdrawn the next year as part of the Paris Peace Accords. Vietnam is reunified under Communist rule more than 2 years after that ceasefire agreement is re

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-13

August 13th 1961The Cold War division of Berlin deepens, leading to an iconic symbol of the conflict . East Germany seals the border between the citys west and east to halt the flight of refugees. Days later, construction begins on the Berlin Wall, m

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-15

August 15th, 1945, whats known as VJ Day. The United States and its Allies mark the effective end of World War II after 6 years of fighting. They celebrate the defeat of the axis powers a day after Japan agrees to an unconditional surrender. 1969. In

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-17

August 17th, 1969. Hurricane Camille slams into the gulf coast, making landfall just east of the mounts of the Mississippi River. The Category 5 storm kills more than 250 people, more than 35 years before Hurricane Katrina devastates the region. 1998

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-18

August 18th, 1227, Genghis Khan, one of the worlds greatest conquerors, dies. At the time the Mongol Empire founded by Khan stretched to cross Asia. 1920, Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing womens right to vo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-19

August 19, 1991In the Soviet Union, Communist hardliners announce that Mikhail Gorbachev has been removed from power. But the coup against Gorbachev during his vacation collapses days later. The Soviet Union dissolves by the end of the year. 1934Vote

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-21

August 21st, 1991In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, leading the popular uprising against the coup plotter Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev returns to power. But th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-22

August 22nd, 2005. The last Jewish settlers leave the Gaza Strip. That happens nearly 40 years after Israel captures the territory during the 6-Day War. The Israeli withdrawal makes way for Palestinian control in Gaza. 1996. In Washington, President

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-23

August 23rd, 1939In Moscow, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. The treaty divides Eastern Europe into spheres of Nazi and Soviet influence， just days before the Nazis invade Poland, the start of WWII. 1927,In Boston, Ital

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-25

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-26

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 women`s suffrage movement. Woman Suffrage is a long story of hard work and heartache, at least on

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-27

August 27th, 1883, one of the worlds most devastating explosions as the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia Sunda Strait kill some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra. 1908, In your

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-28

August 28th, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. caps a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-02

September 2, 1945World War II officially ends, 6 years in the day after the fighting began. That`s 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 Japan

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-03

September 3rd, 1939, 2 days after Adolf Hitlers forces invade Poland, Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, whose policy of appeasing Hitler was meant to prevent what becomes World War II. Yet I

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-05

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-06

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-07

September 7th 1940Nazi Germany begins heavy bombing of London and other major cities in Britain during WWII. CBS reporter Edward describes the devastation of what becomes known as the Blitz. One may see a light of flare definitely hit a number of cam