历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-09

September 9th, 1971Inmates seize control of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. After a four-day siege, police and guard storm the maximum security prison near Buffalo. The ordeal leads 32 inmates and 11 prison employees dead with h

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-01

September 1st, 1939, start of World War II as Nazi Germanys dictator Adolf Hitler, invades neighboring Poland. The war last for the next 6 years, spanning from Europe and North Africa to Asia and Pacific. 2004, a hostage crisis unfolds. in Southern R

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-08

September 8th, 1900, Americas deadliest natural disaster as a hurricane slams in the Galveston Texas. The storm kills estimated 6,000 to 12,000 people, destroying much of the city. 1974, just a month after taking office , President Gerald Fort pardon

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-10

September 10th, 1989, a sign of communism facing its collapse in Eastern Europe, Hungary allows about 7,000 refugees from communist East Germany to leave for noncommunist West Germany. The move affectively bypasses the Berlin Wall and iconic symbol o

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-11

There is a loud crashing sound and there is a pause for about whats taken and a screamer too and everyone just run everybody there is mass chaos.There are smoke, the black smoke and fire, do you see in there? Yes in there. There are indications that

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-13

September 13th, 1993In Washington, a step in the quest for peace in the Mideast. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands at the White House. That happens after they sign an accord in which Israel grants limited

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-14

September 14th 2001Americans mark a day of remembrance for the victims of the 9/11 attacks. In New York, President George W. Bush tours the ruins of the World Trade Center . He tells rescue workers at Ground Zero just days after the attacks that topp

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-30

August 30th, 1862During the American Civil War, the Second Battle of Bull Run ends in Manassas, Virginia. Union forces are defeated by the Confederates on the site of the war's first major clash the previous year. 1967,In Washington, the Senate confi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-31

August 31, 1997. A tragedy that sparks mass public grief around the world. Britains Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris. She was 36 years old. Also killed in the crash, Dodi Al Fayed, Dianas boyfriend and the cars driver Henri Paul, body

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-20

September 20th, 1519Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. The Portuguese explorer is killed in the Philippines, but one of his ships eventually becomes the first to circle the

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-18

September 18th, 1850In Washington, Americas divide between North and South over slavery deepens. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slave owners to reclaim slaves which escape to other states. The law helps fill the outbreak of the civi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-17

September 17th, 1862, what's considered the single bloodiest day in American history takes place during the Civil War. Thats when Union forces repel a confederate invasion of Maryland in the Battle of Antietam. More than 20,000 soldiers on both sides

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-15

And they died in Birmingham. September 15th, 1963, in Birmingham Alabama, a tragedy galvanizes the Americas Civil Rights Movement. 4 black girls are killed when a bomb explodes during Sunday services at the 16 street Baptist Church. 3 Ku Klux Klansme

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-12

September 12th, 2001It's the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed thousands of Americans. In New York, stunned rescue workers search for bodies in the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. And in Washington, Pres

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-18

February 18th 1885Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels is first published in the United States. 1861Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the newly formed Conf

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-11

February 11th, 1990Nelson Mandela is freed in South Africa after the black activist spends 27 years in captivity under the countrys apartheid rule. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. 4 years later, M

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-15

February 15th, 1898, We have remembered the Maine. The U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blows up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, then a Spanish colony. More than 260 crew members on board are killed in the blast. War breaks out between the U.S. and

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-17

February, 17th 1992In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives his series of life sentences for his grisly string of murders. Dahmer has admitted to killing 17 young men and boys, some of whom he had mutilated and cannibalized. Just a few yea

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-19

February 19th 1945.Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-16

Feburary 16th 1862. A blow to the breakaway south during the civil war. Some fourteen thousand Confederate soldiers surrender to Union forces in the battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 2002. Families from the Walker County and around the world have b