历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-09-04（在线收听） |
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. Weeks later, hundreds of US army paratroopers escort the students into the school under an order from President Dwight Eisenhower.
Also, that same year“This is the Edsel, unlike any other car you’ve ever seen. This is the Edsel.”
Ford’s new model, the Edsel, makes its ill-fated debut in auto showrooms across United States. It is a massive flop with the car-shopping public, becoming a lasting symbol of corporate failure.
1781In present day California, Spanish settlers found Los Angeles, now the second largest city in the United States.
1888George Eastman gets a patent for his roll-film camera and registers his trademark, Kodak.
1995In New York, attorney William Kunstler who spoke up for the politically unpopular dies of cancer, at the age of 76. During his career Kunstler represented clients from anti-Vietnam War radicals to suspects in the first World Trade Center bombing.
1972American swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seventh gold medal during a single Olympics at the Summer Games in Munich, in what’s then West Germany.
2006Steve Irwin, better known as television’s beloved Crocodile Hunter, dies after a stingray's barb pierces his heart while diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Irwin was 44.
And 1981Singer and actress Beyonce Knowles is born in Houston.
Today in history, September 4th, Diane Capley, the Associated Press. |
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