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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-20
August 20th, 1998, American 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.
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-21
August 21st, 1991In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, leading the popular uprising against the coup plotter Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation. Gorbachev returns to power. But th
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-22
August 22nd, 2005. The last Jewish settlers leave the Gaza Strip. That happens nearly 40 years after Israel captures the territory during the 6-Day War. The Israeli withdrawal makes way for Palestinian control in Gaza. 1996. In Washington, President
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-23
August 23rd, 1939In Moscow, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. The treaty divides Eastern Europe into spheres of Nazi and Soviet influence， just days before the Nazis invade Poland, the start of WWII. 1927,In Boston, Ital
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-24
August 24th, 79 B.C. Catastrophe strikes as the long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupts east of Naples in what's now Italy. Volcanic ash buries the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, kill an estimated 20,000 people. 1992Hurricane Andrew smashes into
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-25
August 25th, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces in Europe liberate Paris, ending 4 years of Nazi Germanys occupation of the French Capital. 1875, Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel, making the journey from
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-26
August 26th, 1920The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution takes effect giving women the right to vote. Carrie Chapman Catt is one of the leaders in the women`s suffrage movement. Woman Suffrage is a long story of hard work and heartache, at least on
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-27
August 27th, 1883, one of the worlds most devastating explosions as the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia Sunda Strait kill some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra. 1908, In your
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-28
August 28th, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. caps a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-29
August 29th, 2005. America suffers its most destructive natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm blows ashore in Southeast Louisiana, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate. Katrina kills eighteen hundred people across the Gulf Coas
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-30
August 30th, 1862During the American Civil War, the Second Battle of Bull Run ends in Manassas, Virginia. Union forces are defeated by the Confederates on the site of the war's first major clash the previous year. 1967,In Washington, the Senate confi
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-08-31
August 31, 1997. A tragedy that sparks mass public grief around the world. Britains Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris. She was 36 years old. Also killed in the crash, Dodi Al Fayed, Dianas boyfriend and the cars driver Henri Paul, body
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-09-01
September 1st, 1939, start of World War II as Nazi Germanys dictator Adolf Hitler, invades neighboring Poland. The war last for the next 6 years, spanning from Europe and North Africa to Asia and Pacific . 2004, a hostage crisis unfolds. in Southern
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-09-02
September 2nd, 1945World War II officially ends, 6 years in the day after the fighting began. That`s when Japan formally surrenders to the Allies on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. President Harry Truman tells Americans: The evil done by the Jap
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历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-09-03
September 3rd, 1939, 2 days after Adolf Hitlers forces invade Poland, Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, whose policy of appeasing Hitler was meant to prevent what becomes World War II. Yet I
