历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-30

September 30th, 1946Judgment in the German city of Nuremberg more than a year after World War II ends. Thats where an international military tribunal finds nearly two dozens top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. More than half are sentenced to death

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-13

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 2014-09-16

September 16th, 1974President Gerald Ford announces a conditional amnesty program for deserters and draft evaders during the Vietnam War. I do not want to delay another day in resolving the dilemmas of the past, so that we may all get going on the pr

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-09

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 2014-09-11

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 2014-08-07

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 2014-09-17

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 2014-09-18

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 2014-09-19

September 19th, 1777In upstate New York, a turning point during the American Revolution. The Continental Army defeats the British in the first of two Battles of Saratoga. American victories in both battles convince the French to aid the Revolutionary

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-20

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 2014-09-22

September 22nd, 1776, in New York, the British hang Nathan Hale as a spy during the American Revolution. Hales last words are said to have been I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. 1980, Iraq Sadam Husein invades neighboring Iran

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-23

We did get something as a gift after the election.September 23rd, 1952 Future president Richard Nixon uses what's then a new medium, television, to make his case.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-24

September 24th, 1976, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for taking part in a bank robbery with her kidnapers. She serves nearly 2 years before President Jimmy Carter commutes her sentence. In 2001, President Bill Cli

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-29

September 29th, 1938, Europes major powers agree to let Nazi Germany annex Czechoslovaks Sudetenland region. The next day British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says the pact signed in the Germany city of Munich means peace for our time. As symbo

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-10

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 2014-08-29

August 29th, 2005. America suffers its most destructive natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm blows ashore in Southeast Louisiana, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate. Katrina kills eighteen hundred people across the Gulf Coas

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-21

August 21st, 1991In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, leading the popular uprising against the coup plotter Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev returns to power. But th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-22

August 22nd, 2005. The last Jewish settlers leave the Gaza Strip. That happens nearly 40 years after Israel captures the territory during the 6-Day War. The Israeli withdrawal makes way for Palestinian control in Gaza. 1996. In Washington, President

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-26

August 26th, 1920The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution takes effect giving women the right to vote. Carrie Chapman Catt is one of the leaders in the women`s suffrage movement. Woman Suffrage is a long story of hard work and heartache, at least on

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-09

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