历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-19

February 19th 1945. Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-18

February 18th 1885Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels is first published in the United States. 1861Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the newly formed Conf

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-26

February 26, 1993. In New York, a bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. The blast kills 6 people and injures more than a thousand others. More than 8 years later, the twin towers fall in the Sep. 1

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-09

But as President, I must put the interests of America first. January 9th 1913. President Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon oversaw Cold War detente with the Soviet Union and China while winding down the Vietnam War. But he becam

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-27

February 27th, 1933In Berlin, fire guts 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 2014-02-28

February 28th, 1953, in Britain, scientists say and they found the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes. Years later, Francis Crick describes this discovery that he and fellow scientist James Watson made. Biologic

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-17

February, 17th 1992In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives his series of life sentences for his grisly string of murders. Dahmer has admitted to killing 17 young men and boys, some of whom he had mutilated and cannibalized. Just a few yea

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-20

February 20th, 1962Godspeed, John Glenn, two, one, zero, roger! The clock is operating. Were under way. Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, lifting off aboard the Mercury space capsule Friendship 7. 2003A fire during a

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-15

February 15th, 1898, We have remembered the Maine. The U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blows up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, then a Spanish colony. More than 260 crew members on board are killed in the blast. War breaks out between the U.S. and

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-05

Feburary 5th 1937. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes boosting the number of justices on the US Supreme Court. He pushes the plan after the court strikes down key parts of his new deal program during the Great Depression. The Court itself can b

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-13

February 13th, 1935In New Jersey, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is found guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap and death of aviator Charles Lindberghs infant son. The following year, Hauptmann dies in the electric chair, insisting to the end that he

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-14

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

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-12

February 12th, 1809Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new nation.President Abraham Lincoln, who led the divided United States through the Civil War, is born in present-day Kentucky. Lincoln who opposed slave

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-03-01

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 2014-03-02

March 2nd, 1877. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared winner of Americas disputed presidential election months earlier. Hayes moves into the White House instead of Democrat Samuel J. Tilden who had won the popular vote. 1931. Mikhail Gorbachev,

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-03-03

March 3rd 1991In Los Angeles, a scene caught on amateur video sparks an outcry in the United States. Police officials severely beat black motorists Rodney King after he is stopped for speeding. The following year, the four white officers charged in t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-03-04

March 4th, 1933. In Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as president. He pledges to lead America out of the Great Depression in his inaugural address. So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-03-05

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 2014-03-06

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 2014-03-07

March 7th, 1965A Bloody Sunday for Americas civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama, thats where state troopers and a sheriffs posse attack civil rights marchers pushing to register black voters. The violence leads to two more high-profile marches an