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January 30th, 1968 A turning point for Americas role in the Vietnam War as the Tet offensive begins. Communist forces launch surprise attacks to Khe Sanh, Vietnam shattering U.S. government claims about the wars progress. 1933 Nazi leader Adolf Hitle
January 22nd, 1973. In one of its most controversial rulings, the US Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year. For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and
January 21st, 1793. In Paris, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis XVI condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist state, di
July 14th 1789Start of the French Revolution whose impact is felt across European for generations to come. Citizens in Paris storm the Bastille prison, a symbol of the French monarchy's tyranny and release 7 prisoners inside. 1881Well this is how Bil
July 8th, 1853. In Asia, an American expedition led by Commando Matthew Perry arrives in whats now Tokyo Bay, Japan. Its the first step of a US mission that establishes diplomatic and trade relations with Japan, isolated from the West for more than 2
365. City Life. 365.城市生活 In the old days the large towns were just like the small towns except that they were larger. 除了面积较大,过去较大的城镇就像今天的小城镇, Life in them was just about the same as in the small
In 1850 the admission of California gave the free states a majority of two votes in the Senate. 1850年加利福尼亚的加入使自由州的席位比蓄奴州多两个。 This majority was increased to four by the admission of Minnesota in 1858, an
385. To the Defense of Washington. 385.保卫华盛顿 The national capital was really a Southern town, for most of the permanent residents were Southerners, and the offices were filled with Southern men. 国家首都其实是一个南方人的城镇
December 18th, 1944The US Supreme Court rules on the forced relocation and detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II. While the High Court opposes the relocation, it adds the Americans of Japanese ancestry who are undeniably loyal can no lo
November 30th, 1874I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Sir Winston Churchill,the British statesman who led his people through World War II is born in Blenheim Palace, England. 1835Writer and humorist Mark Twain, author
November 12th, 1927Joseph Stalin becomes undisputed ruler of whats then the Soviet Union. His rival Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party. More than a dozen years later, Trotsky is killed with an ice-pick while in exile in Mexico. Stalin
September 29th, 1938Europe's major powers agree to let Nazi Germany annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region. The next day British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says the pact signed in the German city of Munich means peace for our time. As symb
September 6th, 1901President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The gunman: Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who is executed the following month. Vice President Teddy Roosevelt succeeds McKinley when he dies more
September 26th, 1960And I think in the final analysis, it depends upon what we do here. Millions of Americans tune in to watch presidential candidates debate on television for the first time. Squaring off in Chicago: Massachusetts Senator John F. Ken
November 20th, 1945Months after World War II ends in Europe, two dozen Nazi leaders go on trial before International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. 1925 Violence or lawlessness in variety make no sense whatsoever in the United StatesRober
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. Nixon, at that time the Republican candidate for vice president, denies charges of use
November 20th, 1945Months after World War II ends in Europe, two dozen Nazi leaders go on trial before International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. 1925 Violence or lawlessness in variety make no sense whatsoever in the United StatesRober
November 12th, 1927, Josef Stalin becomes undisputed ruler of whats then the Soviet Union. His rival Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party. More than a dozen years later, Trotsky is killed with an ice-pick while in exile in Mexico. Stalin
November 29th, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson names a commission to investigate President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The bipartisan panel,chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, becomes known as the Warren Commission. It later conc
November 6th, 1860Abraham Lincoln, former Illinois congressman who opposes slavery wins a four-way race for president. After his victory, southern states begin to secede from the Union. The American Civil War breaks out the following year. 1854John P