历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-30

June 30th 1934Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler begins his so-called Blood Purge of political and military rivals known as the Night of the Long Knives. 1906A major step forward for America's food and drug safety as President Theodore Roosevelt si

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-28

June 28th 1914The event that triggers War World I takes place in the Balkans in southern Europe, a third national assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo and whats now Bosnia Herzegovina. On the same day, five years la

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-27

June 27th, 1950President Harry Truman orders American air and naval forces into the Korean War, on the side of South Korea. That happens after the United Nations urges its members to help repel communist North Korea's invasion of the non-communist So

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-26

June 26th, 1963During the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy visits what's then West Berlin, showing solidarity with its citizens against communism. As a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner. The visit takes place exactly fifteen

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-18

June 18th 1940 In London, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill tells his people to prepare for their struggle against Nazi Germany during World War II. If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-19

June 19th, 1953Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. They were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, a case that gripped America early in the Cold W

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-21

June 21st, 1964..in my mind, those three are on my mind. So I ask those killers can you sleep again,those three are on my mind. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, three civil rights workers disappear while trying to help blacks register to vote. Michael S

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-22

June 22nd, 1940. France falls to Nazi Germany during WWII, forced to sign an armistice 8 days after German troops overrun Paris. On the same day a year later, the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, a move that proves disastrous for Adolf Hitlers Third Re

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-23

June 23rd, 1972In Washington, a key moment for President Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman during the Watergate scandal. He discusses using the CIA to block the FBI's probe of the break-in of Democratic National Committee headquarte

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-24

June 24th, 1948An early Cold War crisis , as the Soviet Union cuts off all land and water routes between West Germany and whats then West Berlin. It is an attempt to force the United States and its western allies to abandon the city amid Soviet expan

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-25

June 25th , 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, tho

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-20

June 20th, 1893And he got his daughter, Lizzie On a charge of homicide. Some folks say she didn't do it others say of course she did. But they all agree Miss Lizzie B. was a problem kinda kid. A jury finds Lizzie Borden innocent of murdering her fath

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-16

February 16th 1862 A blow to the breakaway South during the Civil War, some 14,000 confederate soldiers surrender to Union Forces in the Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 2002 Families from the Walker County and around the world have been horrified

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-04

February-4th 1945 In the final months of World War II in Europe, the top allied leaders meet in Yalta in Ukraine then part of the Soviet Union. President Franklin Roosevelt, Britains Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin discuss plans for

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-07

When I say that something,I wanna hold your hand,I wanna hold your hand,I wanna hold your hand .Oh, please, say to me. February 7th 1964 The Beatles arrive in New York for their first tour to the United States.Among the stops for the Fab 4,an appeara

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-06

February 6th 1911You'll forgive me, Im gonna do it just one more time. You ain't seen nothing yet. President Ronald Reagan, who led the United States into the final years of the Cold War, is born in Tampico, Illinois,the former movie actor is credite

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-11

February 11th 1990 Nelson Mandela is freed in South Africa after the black activist spends 27 years in captivity under the countrys apartheid rule. I stand here beofore you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you ,the people.Four years later

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-10

February 10th 1962 A high-profile exchange of prisoners between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War. The Soviet Union releases Francis GaryPowers - an American U-2 pilot shot down while on a reconnaissance flight over its territory. In return t

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-14

February 14th 1929-The St. Valentines Day Massacre takes place in Chicago thats where 7 rivals of gangster Al Capone are gunned down in a garage during Prohibition. 1989 Irans leader,the Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill author Salman Rushd

历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-18

February 18th 1885 - Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one of the great American novels is first published in the Unite States. 1861 Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson David is sworn in as President of the newly formed Con