历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-07（在线收听） |
August 7th, 1998. Bombs explode minutes apart outside the US embassies in the Eastern African nations of Kenya and Tanzania. The blasts kill more than 200 people including a dozen Americans and injure thousands more. Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network is blamed for the bombings, 3 years before the 9.11 attacks. 1964. In Washington, a fateful moment during the Vietnam War as Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The overwhelming vote gives President Lyndon Johnson broad powers to escalate America’s involvement in the war.
1942. During WWII, US and Allied forces land at Guadalcanal. This marks the start of the Allies’ first major offe against Japan in the Pacific. Months later, the remaining Japanese troops evacuate the island.
1947. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his team successfully cross the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki. Their journey is an attempt to prove Heyerdahl’s theory that ancient mariners from South America could have settled in the South Pacific.
1957.Here's another nice mess you've gotten me intoOliver Hardy, half of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team, dies in Northern Hollywood, California. He was 65.
2005. “We looked very hard to see if we could find the outline of the historical man.” In New York, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings dies after a battle with lung cancer. He was 67.
And 2007. Barry Bonds hits his 756th homerun topping Hank Aaron’s long-standing record. However, Bond’s accomplishment is shrouded in controversy over his alleged use of steroids.
Today in History, August 7th. Jon Belmont, the Associated Press. |
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