历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-02

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 2014-02-06

February 6th, 1911You'll forgive me, I'm gonna do it just one more time, you ain't seen nothing yet.President Ronald Reagan, who led the United States into the final years of the Cold War, is born in Tampico, Illinois. The former movie actor is credi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-10

February 10th1962 A high profile exchange of prisoners between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War. The Soviet Union releases Frances Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down while on a reconnaissance flight over its territory. In return, t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-23

January 23rd, 1973President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Americans military role in the Vietnam War. We today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia. More th

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-11

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 2014-12-21

December 21st, 1620，pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Thats where they settle the first permanent European colony in whats known as New England. 1988, a terrorist bomb explodes aboard

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-26

You have to find the answer to that riddle somewhere else.I can describle you that I have done everything I could doI did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie , not a single time, never. These allegati

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-17

Jan.17th. 1706, Benjamin Franklin, author, publisher, inventor and one of Americas most famous founding fathers is born in Boston. 1945, in the final month of World War II in Europe, Soviet and Polish forces liberate Polands capital Warsaw from Nazi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-14

January 14th 1963. George Wallace is sworn in as Alabamas new governor and vows segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. Months later, Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door at the university Alabama, trying to block black students

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-15

January 15th, 1929Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta. King's non-violent campaign to end legal segregation of African-Americans in the south included the march on Washington. I have a dream, my 4 little children one day liv

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-16

January 16th, 1991. Start of Operation Desert Storm as American-led coalition begins bombing targets in Iraq and Kuwait. It happens after Saddam Hussein fails to meet a U.N. deadline on withdrawing from Kuwait. President George H. Bush: Five months a

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-19

January 19th, 1809, Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' Poet and author Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston. Among his classic dark tales, The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. 1807, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who surrender spell the end of the civi

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-20

January 20th 1981. Iran releases 52 Americans taken hostage at the US embassy in Tehran after 444 days in captivity. It happened just minutes after the Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President succeeding Jimmy Carter in the White House. 1961. In Washin

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-12

January 12th 1991. Just days before UN deadline, Congress authorizes President George H.W. Bush to use force to expel Iraq form Kuwait. The action taken by the United States Congress today is a very important step in hopefully getting Saddam Hussein

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-13

January 13rd, 1978Fellow doesnt have any tears, it doesnt have any heart. Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a liberal icon of the 50s and 60s dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66. 1992. Japan apologizes for forcing tens of thousands o

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-11

January 11th, 1964, For the first time, the U.S. government warns that smoking may be hazardous to your health. Surgeon General Luther Terry: It is the judgment of the Committee that cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certa

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-08

January 8th 1935. Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. It's down at the end of lonely street at heartbreak hotel Elvis Presley, the King of rock-and-roll, whose fame inspired countless performers, is born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-07

January 7th, 1789, the United States holds its first presidential election more than a decade after the Declaration of Independence. Americans vote for electors, who a month later, choose George Washington to be the nations first president. 1999, in

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-05

January 5th 2000. The US government decides six-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba. That move touches off angry protests by Cuban Americans in Miami, home of Elians US relatives. After a legal battle, the government seiz

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-03

January 3rd, 1777During the revolutionary war, General George Washingtons army routs the British in the battle of Princeton, New Jersey. That follows Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River and beating the Hessian's nearby Trenton. 1990