历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-08

February 8th, 1999In the Middle East, hundreds of world leaders, many of them bitter enemies, attend the funeral of King Hussein in Jordan. 1915The Birth of a Nation, a silent movie epic about the civil war premieres in Los Angeles. D.W. Griffiths wo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-10

Feb 10th 1962 A high profile exchange of prisoners between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War. The Soviet Union releases Frances Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down while on a reconnaissance flight over its territory. In return, the U

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-27

January 27th. 1945. In the final month of WWII, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germanys concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, thats where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews, perished, as part of the Nazis final soluti

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-20

Jan 20th 1981. Iran releases 52 Americans taken hostage at the US embassy in Tehran after 444 days in captivity. It happened just minutes after the Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President succeeding Jimmy Carter in the White House. 1961. In Washington

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-04

September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-17

Jan.17th. 1706, Benjamin Franklin, author, publisher, inventor and one of Americas most famous founding fathers is born in Boston. 1945, in the final month of World War II in Europe, Soviet and Polish forces liberate Polands capital Warsaw from Nazi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-19

Jan.19th 1809, poet and author Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. Among his classic dark tales, The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. 1807, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who surrender spell the end of the civil war, is born in Westmoreland Coun

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-16

January 16th, 1991. Start of Operation Desert Storm as American-led coalition begins bombing targets in Iraq and Kuwait. It happens after Saddam Hussein fails to meet a U.N. deadline on withdrawing from Kuwait. President George H. Bush: Five months a

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-15

January 15th, 1929Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta. King's non-violent campaign to end legal segregation of African-Americans in the south included the march on Washington. I have a dream, my 4 little children one day liv

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-14

January 14th 1963. George Wallace is sworn in as Alabamas new governor and vows segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. Months later, Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door at the university Alabama, trying to block black students

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-13

January 13rd, 1978Fellow doesnt have any tears, it doesnt have any heart. Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a liberal icon of the 50s and 60s dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66. 1992. Japan apologizes for forcing tens of thousands o

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-12

January 12th, 1991. Just days before UN deadline, congress authorizes President George W. Bush to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. The action taken by the United States congress today is a very important step, and, hopefully getting Saddam Hussei

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-11

January 11th, 1964, For the first time, the U.S. government warns that smoking may be hazardous to your health. Surgeon General Luther Terry: It is the judgment of the Committee that cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certa

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-10

January 10th, 1776. Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, one of the most influential works of the American Revolution. The pamphlet urges freedom for Britains colonies in America just months before the Declaration of Independence. 1863. All aboard, b

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-02

January 2nd, 2006The huge white light and a few seconds later, its like somebody set off a powder keg, it shocked house, rattled the windows and everything. An explosion at the Sago Mine in West Virginia kills one miner and traps a dozen underground.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-03

January 3rd, 1777During the Revolutionary War, General George Washingtons army routs the British in the battle of Princeton, New Jersey. That follows Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River and beating the Hessians nearby Trenton. 1990P

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-05

January 5th 2000, the US government decides six-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba. That move touches off angry protestors by Cuban Americans in Miami, home of Elians US relatives. After a legal battle, the government se

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-06

January 6th, 1412. According to Tradition, Joan of Arc, Frances national heroine and Catholic Saint is born in the village of Domrmy. 1838. Inventor Samuel Morse gives his first public demonstration of the telegraph, dots-dashes in all, in Morristown

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-07

January 7th, 1789. The United States holds its first presidential election more than a decade after the Declaration of Independence. Americans vote for electors, who a month later, choose George Washington to be the nations first president. 1999. In

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-09

But as President, I must put the interests of America first. January 9th 1913. President Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon oversaw Cold War detente with the Soviet Union and China while winding down the Vietnam War. But he becam