历史上的今天-Today in History

August 10th, 1977Accused Son of Sam, serial killer David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers New York. The 24-year-old postal worker is wanted for slaying 6 people and wounding 7 others in nearby New York City. John Keenan is Chief of Detectives for the

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August 11th 1965In Los Angeles, 6 days of deadly rioting and looting erupt in the predominantly black section of Watts. 34 people are killed, more than a thousand others are injured and hundreds of buildings are devastated before order is restored. I

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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 All remaining US troops are withdrawn the next year as part of the Paris Peace Accords.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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August 13th 1961The Cold War division of Berlin deepens, leading to an iconic symbol of the conflict . East Germany seals the border between the citys west and east to halt the flight of refugees. Days later, construction begins on the Berlin Wall, m

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August 14th, 1945. This is a victory of more than arms alone; this is a victory of liberty over tyranny. In Washington, President Harry Truman announces Japans unconditional surrender, ending WWII. Weeks later, a surrender ceremony on the USS Missour

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August 15th, 1945, whats known as VJ Day. The United States and its Allies mark the effective end of World War II after 6 years of fighting. They celebrate the defeat of the axis powers a day after Japan agrees to an unconditional surrender. 1969. In

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August 16th, 1977 you are always on my mind. The last chapter for the King of Rock 'n Roll in Memphis, Tennessee. That's where singer Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland Mansion, at age 42. Heart disease and years of prescription drug abuse are the c

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August 17th, 1969. Hurricane Camille slams into the gulf coast, making landfall just east of the mounts of the Mississippi River. The Category 5 storm kills more than 250 people, more than 35 years before Hurricane Katrina devastates the region. 1998

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August 18th, 1227, Genghis Khan, one of the worlds greatest conquerors, dies. At the time the Mongol Empire founded by Khan stretched to cross Asia. 1920, Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing womens right to vo

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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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July 26th, 1948. President Harry Truman signs an executive order to effectively end racial segregation in the US military. It happens a year after Truman signs the National Security Act, which creates the Defense Department and the CIA. 1953. Fidel C

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June 7th, 1998In Jasper, Texas, three white men chain a black man James Byrd, Junior to a pickup truck, then drag him to his death. Two of the men who dragged Byrd are later sentenced to death for the crime. The third receives life in prison. 1948,Th

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June 8th, 632The Prophet Muhammad who founded the religion of Islam dies in Medina, part of what's now Saudi Arabia. Muhammad leaves no arrangement for a successor, creating a rift within Islam which lasts to this day. 1968Authorities announce a capt

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June 9th 1954On Capitol Hill, US Army counsel Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joseph McCarthy over his tactics in fighting Communist version during the Cold War. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?It's t

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July 23rd 1967Black day in July, Motor City madness has touched the countryside.A week of race-related rioting erupts in Detroit, following a police raid on an after-hours club. The violence kills 43 people and injuries more than 1,000 others, destro

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July 24th, 1974. What Ive stated from the beginning to be the truth has been the truth. In Washington, the US Supreme Court weighs in on the Watergate Scandal. It says President Richard Nixon must turnover subpoenaed White House tape recordings sough

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July 25th, 1956Disaster and rescue on the High Seas of the North Atlantic off the coast of New England. The Italian liner Andrew Adoria collides with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm, killing at least 51 people. Most on board the Andrew Adoria su

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July 27th, 1953. In Asia, the Korean War ends after more than three years of fighting, with an armistice signed at Panmunjom. President Dwight Eisenhower tells Americans. We think of those who were called upon to lay down their lives in that far-off

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July 28th, 1914Start of World War I as Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia and the rest of Europes major powers soon join the fighting. War breaks out a month after a Serb nationalist assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in

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July 29th, 1981. Britains Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, leads the ceremony. Charles Philip Arthur George, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife? I will

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学英语单词
4-chloro-albofungin
a tour of duty
aaap
accident severity
aceroside
acrosporangiate
Actaea alba
adjourned
amphenone B
antischool
area of audibility
argyrophilic cell
assouf wadi
asteroside
automatic toll switching system
barium platinate
beekmann
breakage and reunion hypothesis
center castle
chronic sialadnitis
cloud infrastructure
container pwoer unit
cooled turbine
coownership of property
CST (channel status table)
cymogene
d-pad
Danehill
date/time of message
dimeless
disposting
douge
du Vigneaud Vincent
dulcimerist
Edward Mills
enurn
excrescency
faint-hearts
filing board
finishes up with
Fittig's synthesis
flight hazards
get out while the going's good
gigglefests
herns
Hicks's trade cycle theory
hot-dip striping compound
how tall
hydration value
immature proglottid
immunoresponsiveness
imperial federation league
incrusted cystitis
isorubin
kaczorowski
Karganrud
KJ, K.j.
lugubriousness
master's cabin
mccollom
mill-cut saw machine
morphonologically
mouth feel
multitherapy
NIPO
normal trichromatism
notion of confidential interval
oil lubricating tissue
Otawara
passport-holders
Pennsylvania barn
pentatomic ring
peripheral basin
pkgs.
placenta septa
qualitative attribution
radio astrophysics
Raxon
reduced stone
RFID active tag
sanfrancisco
scintllator
sefirat
semipositive mo(u)ld
space module
strap resistance
suck ... off
superior nasal arteriole of retina
sweet orange
tat-tat
taverner
tetramethylthiuram disulfide
thermometer frame
trouble-spots
uk exclusive
usage profile
usepa
value of assessment
virulent virus
Washabaugh County
well-tuned
Zheleznogorsk