历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-05

June 5th, 1968So, my thanks to all of you, and now its on to Chicago, and lets win there. In Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot, after claiming victory in California's Democratic Presidential Primary. Reporter Andrew West is there

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-07

June 7th, 1998In Jasper, Texas, three white men chain a black man James Byrd, Junior to a pickup truck, then drag him to his death. Two of the men who dragged Byrd are later sentenced to death for the crime. The third receives life in prison. 1948,Th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-02

June 2nd 1997In Denver, a federal jury convicts Timothy McVeigh of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. MK is the mother of one of the 168 people killed in the blast at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The emotions have been building

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-03

June 3rd, 1965. Get back in. OK. We're on our way and tell everyone go back in now. Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space during the Gemini IV mission. 1989, Irans spiritual leader the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies in

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-09

June 9th 1954On Capitol Hill, US Army counsel Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joseph McCarthy over his tactics in fighting Communist version during the Cold War. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?It's t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-11

June 11th, 1963Alabama governor George Wallace takes a symbolic stand against racial immigration at the University of Alabama. He blocks a doorway on campus, defining a federal court order, allowing two black students to enroll at the school. I deem

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-12

June 12th, 1987In the then divided city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan makes a Cold War challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall. More than two years later, the Berlin Wall falls, as communism collapses acr

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-13

June 13th, 1971The New York Times begins publishing The Pentagon Papers --- a leaked, top secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam. President Richard Nixon's administration tries to block further publication in court, citing national security

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-06-06

June 6th, 1944. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandie, France, in the D-Day invasion of WWII. Commanding the massive operation General Dwight Eisenhower who tells the troops: You are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-05-01

May 1st, 2003, weeks after the US-led invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush announces: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. Bush speaks fro

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-22

April 22nd, 1994. In New York, former President Richard Nixon dies at age 81, just days after suffering a stroke. Others may hate you. Those who hate you dont win unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. Nixon pursued Cold War detente an

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-29

April 29th, 1992. Rioting hits Los Angeles killing 55 people and causing a billion dollars in property damage. It happens after 4 white police officers are acquitted of almost all state charges in the videotape beating a black motorist Rodney King. A

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-30

April 30th, 1945Nazi Germanys dictator Adolf Hitler commits suicide during the last days of World War II in Europe. Hitler and Eva Braun, his long time mistress and wife of one day take their own lives as Soviet troops approach his bunker in Berlin.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-21

April 21th 1910Writer and humorist Mark Twain dies of heart disease in Redding, Connecticut at age 74. Among his works: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper. 1926We can make sense of the future if we understand the lessons of th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-16

April 16th, 2007A gunman opens fire on the campus of Virginia Tech, killing 32 students and faculty members before killing himself. The number of the victims made the shooting the deadliest in modern U.S. history. 1947，The country deadliest industr

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-05-04

May 4th, 1970. This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio. A protest against the Vietnam War turns deadly at Kent University in Ohio. Thats where a national guardsman opens fire on anti-war students after the United States invades Cambodia. 4

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-11

April 11th, 1951During the Korean War, President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his command in Asia. General MacArthur is one of our greatest military commanders. But the cause of world peace is much more important than any indivi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-18

April 18th, 1906A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, flattening buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll range between three-thousand and six-thousand in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an Am

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-24

April 24th, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen are killed when an abortive mission to free the American hostages in Iran ends in disaster. President Jimmy Carter: It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when probl

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-25

April 25th, 1874Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. In spite of the great distance bodily separating us, you hear my voice as clearly and distinctly as I think you should. 1507,America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after