历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-09(在线收听

 "But as President, I must put the interests of America first." January 9th 1913. President Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon oversaw Cold War detente with the Soviet Union and China while winding down the Vietnam War. But he became the only president to ever resign, facing likely impeachment over the Watergate Scandal.

1972. Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by phone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, says a purported biography of him is a fake.
1968. Surveyor Seven, America's last unmanned probe of the moon lands on the lunar surface. The following year Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin make history as the first humans to set foot on the moon.
And 2006. "The Phantom of the Opera is there, inside my mind." In New York, "the Phantom of the Opera" leaps past "Cats" to become the longest-running show in Broadway history.
Today in history, January 9th. Sandy Kozel. The Associated Press.
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