历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-01-04(在线收听

 Jan 4th, 2006. Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a significant stroke and lasts into a coma. It happens just months after Sharon ens Israel's 38-year occupation of gaza strip and both his own heart line Likud Party. Sharon's official powers are transferred to his deputy Ehud Olmert who later succeeds him as Prime Minister.

1809. Loui Braille, the inventor of a reading system for the blind which bears his name at this day is born in a town near Paris.
1999. The one thing you'll get from governer Jessy Van Tura, you may not always want to hear it, but you will get honesty. Former__Jessy Van Tura vows to be a straight talker after he's sworn in as a governer in Minnesota.
1965. Poet T.S.Elliot whose work inspires and supplies most of the words for the musical Cats years later, dies in London at age of 76.
Today in History Jan 4th.Sophie Annems.the Associated Press
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