历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-10-08（在线收听） |
October 8th, 1871, deadly fires scorch the upper Midwest. The great Chicago fire kills some 300 people, leaving 90,000 homeless in the Windy City, even deadlier the Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin claims some 1,200-1,500 lives. Fires also broke out in three Michigan communities, Poland, Manistee and Port Huron. 1982, Poland’s government then under martial law bans all labor organizations, including the Solidarity Trade Union. The Solidarity survives the crackdown, playing a key part in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author and dissident and what’s then the Soviet Union, wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. His work chronicles life under the repression and labor camps of Soviet dictator- Joseph Stalin.
And 1956, Don Larsen of the New York Yankees, pitches the only perfect game as well as a no-hitter at a World Series to date that gives Yankees a 2 to nothing shutout over the Brooklyn Dodgers in game 5.
Today in History. October 8th. Ross Simpson, the Associated Press. |
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