历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-01

March 1st, 1932, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped from the aviators home near in Hopewell, New Jersey. More than two months later, the childs remains are found near the Lindbergh home. Bruno Hauptmann is convicted of the babys kidnap

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-27

February 27th, 1933In Berlin, fire gets Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag. The Nazis blame the Communists and use the fire to justify suspending civil liberties, setting up a dictatorship under Adolf Hitler. 1991,Kuwait is liberated. Iraq'

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-25

January 25th,1981. The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrive home in the United States reuniting with their families at last. 1971. In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three of his female followers are convicted of murder and conspirac

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-24

February 24th, 1868. In Washington, Andrew Johnson becomes the first American president to be impeached. The House of Representatives impeaches Johnson after he tries to fire secretary of war Edwin Stanton. Johnson is later acquitted by a single vote

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-23

February 23rd 1945. An iconic image from World War II during the battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific. US marines fighting Japanese forces seize Mound Suribachi and raise an American flag twice in the same day. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosentha

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-14

Feb 14th, 1929The St. Valentine's Day Massacre takes place in Chicago. Thats where 7 rivals of gangster Al Capone are gunned down in a garage during prohibition . 1989Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill author Salman Rushdie. Kh

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-16

March 16th, 1968The My Lai Massacre takes place during the Vietnam War. US troops under the command of Lieutenant William Cally Jr. kill hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. High ranking army officers initially cover up the inciden

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-11

March 11th, 2004Bombs strike the commuter rail network in Spains capital, Madrid. The attack linked to the al-Qaide terror network, kills 191 people and wounds more than 2,000 others. 2006Former Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic is found dead i

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-30

March 30th, 1981. Outside a Washington hotel, John Hinckley Jr. shoots President Ronald Reagan and 3 others. Presidential aide Lyn Nofziger: The President has been shot once in the left chest, the bullet entered from his left side. The shooting serio

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-24

March 24th, 1999NATO launches US-led airstrikes against Yugoslavia over the Kosovo crisis. President Bill Clinton tells the American people, We have acted with resolve for several reasons. We act to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-25

March 25, 1965. 25,000 civil rights marchers arrive at the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. leads the marchers in protesting the denial of voting rights to blacks in the South. However difficult the moment, however frustra

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-28

March 28th, 1979America's worst commercial nuclear accident takes place at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Though the health effects are considered small, the accident strengthens opposition to the nation's nuclear power in

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-27

March 27th, 1997, In Nashville, Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., meets with James Earl Ray in prison for assassinating the civil rights leader. I just wanna ask you for the record: hum, did you kill my father? No, no, I didn't. Dexter King

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-26

March 26th, 1979In Washington, leaders of Israel and Egypt sign a peace treaty at the White House. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. No more wars, no more bloodsheds, no more bereavements. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever. Egyptian Presid

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-15

March 15, 44BC, the ides of March in Ancient Rome, thats when Dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles included Brutus and Cassius. 1965, in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson urges Congress to pass an effective voting rights bil

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-02

February 2nd 1943. A major victory for the Soviet Union during World War II as the last of Nazi Germanys forces in the battle of Stalingard, surrender. The Nazis and their Axis partners lost some 800,000 troops in the month-long battle. The Soviet lo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-05

March 5th, 1770The Boston Massacre takes place, an event that contributes to the outbreakof the American Revolution a few years later. It happens when British soldiers in Boston, taunted by a crowd of American colonists, open fire and kill five peopl

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-08

March 8th, 1965, America deepens its military involvemnt in Southeast Asia, as the first US combat troops land in South Vietnam. 3,500 marines arrive to defend the US air base in Da Nang. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams is there. The marine

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-06

March 6th, 1836, So all of Texas will know and remember the Alamo. In San Antonio, the Alamo falls to Mexican forces ending a 13-day siege of rebel Texans fighting for their independence. 1857, the US Supreme Courts decision in the Dred Scott case br

历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-09

March 9th, 1954. Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joe McCarthys anti-Communist campaign. Murrow critically reviews McCarthys tactics on his See It Now Program on CBS. The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and