历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-07-13（在线收听） |
July 13th, 1985. Here're hours to go in this Live Aid show in Philadelphia, and it looks if no one is leaving early. Live Aid, a global rock concert to raise money for starving people in Africa, takes place in London and Philadelphia. The mammoth event spawns charity music concerts in years to come from Farm Aid and Hurricane Katrina Relief to Live 8 and Live Earth. 1793. A bloody milestone during the French Revolution. Jean-Paul Marat, a revolutionary writer is stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday. She is executed four days later. 1863. In New York City, riots erupt against the Union's military draft during the American Civil War. Over the next three days, more than a thousand people, many of them blacks, are killed in the violence.
1977. A power blackout leaves New York City in the dark for 25 hours after lightning strikes north of the city. As a result, looting, vandalism and arson hit the Big Apple, already reeling from a severe financial crisis .
And 1942. Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes? Actor Harrison Ford, best known on the silver screen as Han Solo and Indiana Jones, is born in Chicago.
Today in History. July 13th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press |
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