历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-06-03（在线收听） |
June 2nd, 1997In Denver, a federal jury convicts Timothy McVeigh of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. Masha Kite is the mother of one of the 168 people killed in the blast at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. "The emotions have been building up for such a long time that er... just to hear that word, guilty."McVeigh is executed 4 years later.
1953Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is crowned in London's Westminster Abbey. The coronation takes place more than a year after the death of her father, King George VI.
1979Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on the first ever papal visit to a Communist country.
And 1941"I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."In New York, baseball's Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig of the Yankees dies of the degenerative disease that later carries his name. He was 37.
Today in History, June 2nd, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press. |
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