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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-08-20
August 20th, 1998American cruise missiles pound alleged Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. The attacks are retaliatory strike after the deadly bombings of two US embassies in East Africa just weeks earlier. Pr
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-08
October 8th, 1871Deadly fires scorch the upper Midwest. The great Chicago fire kills some 300 people, leaving 90,000 homeless in the Windy City, even deadlier the Peshtigo fire in northeastern Wisconsin claims some 1,200-1,500 lives. Fires also broke
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-06
October 6th, 1981In Cairo, Islamic extremists assassinate Egypts President Anwar Sadat while he reviews the military parade. Sadat, the first Arab leader derecognized Israel as part of a push for Mid-East peace, was 62 years old. 1973War erupts in th
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-07
October 7th, 2001Just weeks after the September 11th terror-attacks, the United States and Britain launch military strikes on Afghanistan. On a video tape, Osama Bin Laden praises god for the 9.11 attacks, but the Al-Qaeda leader does not claim respo
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-08-08
I have never been a quitter. August 8th, 1974In Washington, President Richard Nixon says he will resign, amid damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal. I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be swo
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-10
October 10th, 1973Vice President Spiro Agnew, accused of taking bribes, pleads no contest to federal income tax evasion. Agnew then becomes only the second vice president in US history to resign. Because I believe we will be against the national inte
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-01
October 1st, 1908There is nothing like a Model T. Henry Ford rolls out the Model T, succeed in this quest to build an affordable car for the masses. The price tag for the car nicknamed The Ten Lazy,﹩850 back then, were about 1,700 in todays dollars
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-09
October 9th, 1967Che Guevara, the Latin-American guerrilla leader is executed in Bolivia while trying to spark a revolution. Guevara who aided Fidel Castros rise power in Cuba remains a global icon to this day. 2001Letters with the New Jersey postmar
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-02
October 2nd, 1869There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything. Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma or Great Soul, is born in India then under British colonial rule. Gandhis use of non-violent tactics as a political and
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-08-19
August 19th, 1991In the Soviet Union, Communist hardliners announce that Mikhail Gorbachev has been removed from power. But the coup against Gorbachev during his vacation collapses days later. The Soviet Union dissolves by the end of the year. 1934Vo
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-13
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 completed some 8 year
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-09-29
September 29th, 1938Europe's major powers agree to let Nazi Germany annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region. The next day British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain says the pact signed in the German city of Munich means peace for our time. As symb
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-14
October 14th, 1947Its 662 mile per hour. The really big moment through the sound barrier. The first time ever in other. Air Force captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than sound. Yeager breaks the sound barrier as he tests the
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-18
October 18th, 1931Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.Inventor Thomas Edison dies in West Orange, New Jersey at age 84. Among his many inventions, the electric light bulb, the p
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-11
October 11th, 2002On Capitol Hill, the Senate joins the House in authorizing US military force against Iraq. Arizona Republican John McCain says Saddam Hussein must comply with the UN on giving up weapons of mass destruction or else. Allowing him to
