历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-11（在线收听） |
August 11th 1965In Los Angeles, 6 days of deadly rioting and looting erupt in the predominantly black section of Watts. 34 people are killed, more than a thousand others are injured and hundreds of buildings are devastated before order is restored. It's a turning point for America's civil rights movement as peaceful protestors in the South give way to violent clashes in the nation's major cities. 1984A joke by President Ronald Reagan during a voice test for a paid political radio address causes a Cold War flap: "All right, my fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."1992The Mall of America, at the time the biggest indoor mall in the United States and still one of the nation's largest opens in Bloomington, Minnesota. 1921Alex Haley, author of Roots -- the African-American family saga that became a hit TV mini-series, is born in Ithaca, New York.
And 1956Abstract painter Jackson Pollock dies in an auto accident on New York's Long Island. He was 44Today in History, August 11th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press. |
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