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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-16
August 16th, 1977 you are always on my mind. The last chapter for the King of Rock 'n Roll in Memphis, Tennessee. That's where singer Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland Mansion, at age 42. Heart disease and years of prescription drug abuse are the c
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-19
August 19, 1991In the Soviet Union, Communist hardliners announce that Mikhail Gorbachev has been removed from power. But the coup against Gorbachev during his vacation collapses days later. The Soviet Union dissolves by the end of the year. 1934Vote
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-20
August 20th, 1998, American cruise missiles pound alleged Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. The attacks are retaliatory strike after the deadly bombings of two US embassies in East Africa just weeks earlier.
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-11
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. I
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-22
August 22nd, 2005. The last Jewish settlers leave the Gaza Strip. That happens nearly 40 years after Israel captures the territory during the 6-Day War. The Israeli withdrawal makes way for Palestinian control in Gaza. 1996. In Washington, President
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-28
August 28th, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. caps a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-23
August 23rd, 1939In Moscow, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. The treaty divides Eastern Europe into spheres of Nazi and Soviet influence， just days before the Nazis invade Poland, the start of WWII. 1927,In Boston, Ital
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-29
August 29th, 2005. America suffers its most destructive natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm blows ashore in Southeast Louisiana, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate. Katrina kills eighteen hundred people across the Gulf Coas
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-22
July 22nd, 1933. Aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world in 7 days 18 and 3/4 hours. 1934. Federal agents shoot to death a man identified as John Dillinger outside a movie theater in Chicago. Dillinger has been declared Pu
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-01
September 1st, 1939, start of World War II as Nazi Germanys dictator Adolf Hitler, invades neighboring Poland. The war last for the next 6 years, spanning from Europe and North Africa to Asia and Pacific . 2004, a hostage crisis unfolds. in Southern
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-21
August 21st, 1991In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, leading the popular uprising against the coup plotter Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev returns to power. But th
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-08-30
August 30th, 1862During the American Civil War, the Second Battle of Bull Run ends in B, Virginia. Union forces are defeated by the Confederates on the site of the war's first major clash the previous year. 1967In Washington, the Senate confirms K as
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-02
September 2, 1945World War II officially ends, 6 years in the day after the fighting began. That`s when Japan formally surrenders to the Allies on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. President Harry Truman tells Americans: The evil done by the Japan
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-03
September 3rd, 1939, 2 days after Adolf Hitlers forces invade Poland, Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, whose policy of appeasing Hitler was meant to prevent what becomes World War II. Yet I
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-04
September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school
