历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-20（在线收听） |
Mar 20th, 2003 - American and British forces invade Iraq from neighbouring Kuwait.Associated Press correspondent Ross Simpson is with the US Marines.See a gala T-55 Iraqi tank and give some mechanized infantry .Just a few minutes and we cross the berm and separate Iraq from Kuwait. 2004 - the US military charges 6 American soldiers with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison outside Iraq's capital Baghdad.
1815 - France’s Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris and regains power after the escaping exile on the island of Elba. Napoleon is driven back into exile months later after his defeat at the battle of Waterloo.
1852 - Uncle Toms Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel condemning slavery is first published. The book contensifies the divisions of United States over slavery less than a decade before the civil war breaks out.
1995 - in Tokyo, a Doomsday Cult releases poisonous gas Sarin on 5 subway trains. The attack kills a dozen people and sickens more than 5,500 others.
And 1969 - Musician John Lennon of the Beatles marries artist Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
Today In History, March 20th, Mike Gracia, the Associated Press. |
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