历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-05-05（在线收听） |
May 5th 1961Alan Shepard becomes America's first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. "three, two, one, zero, ignition." Shepard makes a 15-miunte suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7. 1821France's former ruler Napoleon Bonaparte whose armies once swept across Europe dies in exile on the south Atlantic island of St. Helena.
1818Karl Marx, the philosopher whose ideas bore fruit in communist regimes worldwide during the 20th century is born in what’s now Germany.
1981Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands dies at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison during the 66th day of his hunger strike.
And 1891Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts at the opening concert at Carnegie Hall then known as Music Hall in New York City.
Today in History, May 5th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press. |
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