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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-21
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 2014-08-22
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 2014-08-25
August 25th, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces in Europe liberate Paris, ending 4 years of Nazi Germanys occupation of the French Capital. 1875, Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel, making the journey from
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-26
August 26th, 1920The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution takes effect giving women the right to vote. Carrie Chapman Catt is one of the leaders in the women`s suffrage movement. Woman Suffrage is a long story of hard work and heartache, at least on
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-09
August 9th, 1945The United States drops a second atomic bomb on Japan during WWII. This time, the target is the city of Nagasaki, where the nuclear blast kills an estimated 74-thousand people. President Harry Truman: If Japan does not surrender, bomb
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-27
August 27th, 1883, one of the worlds most devastating explosions as the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia Sunda Strait kill some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra. 1908, In your
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-28
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 2014-08-29
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 2014-08-31
August 31, 1997. A tragedy that sparks mass public grief around the world. Britains Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris. She was 36 years old. Also killed in the crash, Dodi Al Fayed, Dianas boyfriend and the cars driver Henri Paul, body
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-01
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 2014-09-02
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 2014-09-04
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
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-05
September 5th, 1972You are welcome. Israeli Olympic team is destroyed much of it, some of them are officials. A massacre at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, in what's then West Germany. Palestinian guerrillas attack the Israeli Olympic team, killi
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-07
September 7th 1940Nazi Germany begins heavy bombing of London and other major cities in Britain during WWII. CBS reporter Edward describes the devastation of what becomes known as the Blitz. One may see a light of flare definitely hit a number of cam
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-08
September 8th, 1900, Americas deadliest natural disaster as a hurricane slams in the Galveston Texas. The storm kills estimated 6,000 to 12,000 people, destroying much of the city. 1974, just a month after taking office , President Gerald Fort pardon
