历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-07

August 7th, 1998. Bombs explode minutes apart outside the US embassies in the Eastern African nations of Kenya and Tanzania. The blasts kill more than 200 people including a dozen Americans and injure thousands more. Osama bin Ladens al-Qaida terror

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-08

August 8th, 1974I have never been a quitter. In Washington, President Richard Nixon says he will resign, amid damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal. I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be swo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-09

August 9th, 1945The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Japan during WWII. This time, the target is the city of Nagasaki, where the nuclear blast kills an estimated 74-thousand people. President Harry Truman: If Japan does not surrender, bomb

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-04

August 4th 1944During World War II, Anne Frank and her family are among 8 people arrested in German-occupied Amsterdam. That happens when Nazi police raid the secret annex of her father's office building where they have been hiding. Anne's father Ott

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-14

July 14th 1789Start of the French Revolution whose impact is felt across European for generations to come. Citizens in Paris storm the Bastille prison, a symbol of the French monarchy's tyranny and release 7 prisoners inside. 1881Well this is how Bil

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-22

July 22nd, 1933. Aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world in 7 days 18 and 3/4 hours. 1934. Federal agents shoot to death a man identified as John Dillinger outside a movie theater in Chicago. Dillinger has been declared Pu

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-21

July 21st 1861During the American Civil War, Union and Confederate forces fight the first Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia. The war's first major battle ends in a Confederate victory. So there is a Second Battle at Bull Run the following year

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-20

July 20th 1969 The Eagle has landed. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon. The astronauts set foot on the lunar surface during the Apollo XI Mission. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.A

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-19

July 19th, 1848. A Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York launches the movement to give American women the right to vote. That campaign succeeds when the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution takes effectmore than 70 years later. 1993. P

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-17

July 17th 1996It was like a big white flash and then all of a sudden it turned into a big orange fireball, broke off into 2 pieces.TWA Flight 800 explodes and crashes off New York's Long Island minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy Internatio

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-24

June 24th, 1948. An early Cold War crisis as the Soviet Union cuts off all land and water routes between West Germany and whats then West Berlin. Its an attempt to force the United States and its western allies to abandon the city amid Soviet expansi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-12

July 12th, 100 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Ancient Roman dictator and military conqueror who was assassinated on the Ides of March, is born. 1984,Walter Mondale picks the first woman to run on a major party ticket for the White House. The Democratic pres

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-11

July 11th 1995A major step between former foes as the United States normalizes diplomatic relations with Communist Vietnam. That happens more than twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, which killed 58,000 Americans and three million Vietname

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-13

July 13th, 1985. Herere hours to go in this Live Aid show in Philadelphia, and it looks if no ones leaving early. Live Aid, a global rock concert to raise money for starving people in Africa, takes place in London and Philadelphia. The mammoth events

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-29

June 29th 1972In Washington, the US Supreme Court effectively voids state death penalty laws with its decision in Furman vs. Georgia. The Court rules against how states are administering the death penalty at the time, calling their laws arbitrary and

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-06

July 6th, 1957. They say a hot day is nice. And I've been working like a dogIn Liverpool, England, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both then in their teens meet for the first time. Just years later, they along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, ch

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-10

July 10th, 1940. The battle of Britain begins during WWII as Nazi forces start attacking southern England by air. Just weeks earlier, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned his people to prepare for the assault. If the British Empire and its

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-02

July 2nd 1776In Philadelphia, the vote that sets the stage for America's declaration of independence two days later. The Continental Congress passes a resolution saying Britain's 13 colonies are and should be free and independent states. 1964In Washi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-09

July 9th 1896You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.In Chicago, William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic national convention. The speech clinches the Democratic presidential nomination for Bryan but he lo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-20

June 20th, 1893Some folks say she didn't do it, and another say how she did it. But that all dreams of Lizzie.B was a problem kind kidA jury finds Lizzie Borden innocent of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe at their home in Fall River,