历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-01-04（在线收听） |
"The main danger to stability is terror..." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a significant stroke and lapses into a coma. It happens just month after Sharon ends Israeli's 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip and both his own hard-line Likud party. Sharon's official powers are transferred to his dupty Ehud Olmert, who later succeeds him as Prime Minister. 1809,Louis Braille, the inventor of a reading system for the blind which bears his name to this day, is born in the town near Paris.
1999,"The one thing you'll get from Governor Jesse Ventura, you may not always wanna hear it. But you will get honesty." Former pro wrestler Jesse, "The Body" Ventura vows to be a straight talker after he is sworn in as thegovernor of Minnesota.
And 1965,"Memory, turn your face to the moonlight. Let..." Poet, T.S. Eliot whose work inspired and supplied most of the worlds for the musical "Cats" years later, dies in London at age 76.
Today in History, January 4nd. Sophia Manos, the Associated Press. |
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