历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-07（在线收听） |
January 7th, 1789, the United States holds its first presidential election more than a decade after the Declaration of Independence. Americans vote for electors, who a month later, choose George Washington to be the nation’s first president. 1999, in Washington, an impeached American president goes on trial before the U.S. Senate for only the second time in history. Bill Clinton faces charges of perjury and obstruction of justice over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He is acquitted the following month.
1979, Vietnamese forces capture Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. As many as 2,000,000 Cambodians died under that regime which had turned the country into a vast slave labor camp.
And 1989, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, whose decades of rule include World War II and Tokyo becoming an American ally, dies at age 87.
Today in History. January 7th. Mike Gracia, the Associated Press. |
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