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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-12
August 12th, 1972. The last American combat troops leave Vietnam. All remaining US troops are withdrawn the next year as part of the Paris Peace Accords. Vietnam is reunified under Communist rule more than 2 years after that ceasefire agreement is re
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-03
October 3rd, 1995In California, a verdict in the murder trial of ex-football player O.J. Simpson， In the jury of the New Orleans type of election finds the defendant Orenthal James Simpson is not guilty for the kind of murder. Simpson is found not
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-06
October 6th, 1981, in Cairo, Islamic extremists assassinate Egypts President Anwar Sadat while he reviews the military parade. Sadat, the first Arab leader derecognized Israel as part of a push for Mid-East peace, was 62 years old. 1973, war erupts i
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-07
October 7th, 2001, just weeks after the September 11th terror-attacks, the United States and Britain launch military strikes on Afghanistan. On a video tape, Osama Bin Laden prays God for the 9.11 attacks, but the Al-Qaeda leader does not claim respo
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-08
October 8th, 1871, deadly fires scorch the upper Midwest. The great Chicago fire kills some 300 people, leaving 90,000 homeless in the Windy City, even deadlier the Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin claims some 1,200-1,500 lives. Fires also bro
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-12
October 12th 1492On this date under the Old Style calendar, explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas. Columbus sailing under Spain's banner traveled across the Atlantic, trying to seek a route to Asia. His arrival on the Caribbean leads to
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-14
October 14th, 1947Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than sound. Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he tests the rocket-powered research plane over California. 1066In Britain, invading Norman forces under William th
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-05
October 5th 2001A new scare for Americans just weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks. Robert Stevens, a tabloid photo editor in Florida, dies from inhaled anthrax. He is the first of five people to die from anthrax-laced letters which also infect more
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-16
October 16th, 1859 John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on An incident that brings America closer to Civil War. Abolitionist John Brown's raid on a Federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry in whats now West Virginia, h
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-18
October 18th, 1931Inventor Thomas Edison dies in West Orange, New Jersey at age 84. Among his many inventions --- the electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion-picture camera. 1962,Three scientists are named winners of the Nobel Prize for Me
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-20
I have given him absolute authority. October 20th, 1973, in Washington, a chapter during the Watergate scandal known as the Saturday Night Massacre: President Richard Nixon orders the firing of Archibald Cox-the Watergate special prosecutor. But Atto
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-21
October 21st, 1879A coiling filament glowing within What way the oil lamps and candles? Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 2001Postal worker in Washington D.C. dies from inhaled anthrax as of
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-22
Of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba October 22nd, 1962, Cold War superpowers reach the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. President John F. Kennedy announces an air and naval blockade of Cuba after Soviet missile b
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-23
October 23rd, 1983In Lebanon, a suicide truck bomb strikes U.S. Marine Headquarters at Beirut International Airport.The blast kills 241 marines and American sailors, part of an international peace-keeping force. At about the same time, another attack
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-24
October 24th, 1945 Birth of the United Nations. The charter of the global organziation takes effect, nearly two months after the Japanese surrender ending WWII. 1952,Dwight Eisenhower promises to bring the Korean War to an end. The Republican candida
