历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-18（在线收听）

 September 18th, 1850In Washington, America’s divide between North and South over slavery deepens. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slave owners to reclaim slaves which escape to other states. The law helps fill the outbreak of the civil war a decade later. 2001Letters postmarked Trenton, New Jersey that later test positive for anthrax are sent to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw and the New York Post. The letters are part of the anthrax scare that kills five people and infects more than a dozen others just weeks after the September 11 terror attacks. 1975In San Francisco, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured more than a year and a half after her kidnapping. Hearst says her kidnappers known as the Symbionese Liberation Army brainwashed her to join in them at least two robberies. She spends prison time for bank robbery but her sentence is later commuted. 1961In Africa, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarsild is killed when his pane crashes in what’s now Zambia. Mannarsild who was on a peace mission in what’s now the Democratic Republic of Congo with 56 years old. 1905Actress Greta Garbo, the enigmatic movie star of the 1920s and 1930s is born in Stockholm, Sweden. And 1970 Purple haze all around  Don't know if I'm comin' up or down In London, guitar Jimi Hendrix, the music icon of the 60s counterculture dies of the drug overdose. He was 27 years old. Today in history, September 18th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.