历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-12-29（在线收听） |
December 29th 1916Noblemen in Russia murder Grigori Rasputin, a monk with powerful influence over the country's royal family. But Rasputin proves hard to kill. First, he's poisoned, then shot twice before he finally dies from drowning after being thrown into an icy river. The Russian Revolution topples the monarchy the following year. 1890. In South Dakota, the Wounded Knee massacre takes place as some three hundreds Sioux Indians are killed by US troops sent to disarm them.
1845. "There is a yellow rose in Texas that I'm going to see." Texas, a former Mexican territory turning an independent republic, joins the United States as the 28th state for the dispute between the US and Mexico over Texas, leads to war the following year.
1989. In what's then known as Czechoslovakia, a sign that The Iron Curtain of the cold war is crumbling in Eastern Europe. Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel is elected as his country's president, the first non-communist to attain that post in more than four decades.
And 1851. The first American Young Men's Christian Association, the YMCA, is organized in Boston.
Today in history. December 29th. Ed Donahue. The Associated Press. |
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