历史上的今天-Today in History

October 19th 1781The decisive victory in the Revolutionary War, British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrender to American and French forces at the battle of Yorktown in Virginia. In a peace treaty a few years later, Britain officially recognizes the

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November 24th, 1963, in Dallas, a scene caught on live TV that shocks America just days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There is Lee Harvey Oswald. Hes been shot. Hes been shot! Lee Oswald has been shot! Theres a man with a gun.

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October 13th, 1792In the District of Columbia, the cornerstone is laid for the Executive Mansion, what we now called the White House. Its first occupants, President John Adams and wife Abigail move in when construction is nearly complete some 8 years

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November 25th, 1963Three days after he's slain in Dallas, the body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1986In Washington, new details about the Iran-Contra Affair engulf President Ronald Reagans administration

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November 26th, 1950, China, under its new communist leader Mao Zedong, enters the Korean War on the side of neighbor and communist ally North Korea. Chinese troops launch a counteroffensive against the American-led force, under the UN banner and troo

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November 27th, 1978, in San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death at City Hall. Former City Supervisor Dan White who pulled the trigger goes on trial for murder, but hes convicted of

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November 28th, 1520Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. The Portuguese navigator crosses the Pacific and is killed in the Philippines in the following years. But Magella

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November 29th, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson names a commission to investigate President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The bipartisan panel,chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, becomes known as the Warren Commission. It later conc

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November 30th, 1874, I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Sir Winston Churchill,the British statesman who led his people through WWII is born in Blenheim Palace, England. 1835, writer and humorist Mark Twain, author of H

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December 1st, 1955Whats considered the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama. I would just like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and have the same rights and privileges as anybody else. Rosa Pa

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December 2nd, 1954Traitors are not gentleman, my good friends. They don't understand being treated like gentlemen. In Washington, the U.S. Senate takes the rare step of condemning one of its own, Joseph McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin. McCarthy is

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December 3rd, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant. The patient Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with his new heart. 1984, a horrific industrial accident kills thousands of p

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December 4th, 1991Freedom at last for Terry Anderson, the Associated Press correspondent, held hostage in Lebanon, Anderson is released after nearly 7 years in captivity held longer in Lebanon than any other western hostage. 1992President George H.W.

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November 16th 1966In Ohio, Dr. Samuel Sheppard is acquitted in a second trial of charges that he murdered his pregnant wife Marilyn. Sheppard served 10 years behind bars for the 1954 murder before his release and second trial. 1933The United States a

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November 21st, 1877 Thomas Edison announces the invention of the phonograph, after testing the device by reciting a nursery rhyme. Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go1973,Pres

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And they started their dirty aggression against this country. November 23rd, 2001, the UN war crimes tribunal says it will try former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia. Its the first time that the court links Milosevic to t

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November 5th, 1940, My conscience will not let me turn my back upon a call to service. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the only American president to win an unprecedented third term in office. Roosevelt serves as president for a total of more than 12 y

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November 8th, 1923Nazi leader Adolf Hitler makes his first attempt to seize power in Germany. He launches a failed coup in the city of Munich, an event that becomes known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler ultimately achieves his goal when he becomes Ge

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November 9th 1989A sign that the end of the Cold War is near as joyous Germans dance atop the Berlin Wall. Communist East Germany throws open its borders, allowing its citizens to travel freely to the West. 1938What becomes known as Kristallnacht or

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November 10th, 1975, Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early! The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sinks and its crew of 29 perishes during a severe storm on Lake Superior. 1982, Leonid Brezhnev, the Sovie

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