历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-02-15（在线收听）

 February 15th, 1898, “We have remembered the Maine.” The U.S. battleship "Maine" mysteriously blows up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, then a Spanish colony. More than 260 crew members on board are killed in the blast. War breaks out between the U.S. and Spain months later1989, the Soviet Union says the last of its troops have left Afghanistan, ending more than nine years of military intervention. A few years later, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, establishing a theocracy and providing a base for Osama Bin Laden. In 2001, Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network masterminds the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States.