历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-16(在线收听

 September 16th, 1974President Gerald Ford announces a conditional amnesty program for deserters and draft evaders during the Vietnam War. ”I do not want to delay another day in resolving the dilemmas of the past, so that we may all get going on the pressing problems of the present.”

1982A massacre in Lebanon months after Israel’s invasion to drive out the PLO. Lebanese Christian militiamen kill hundreds of Palestinian men women and children in two refugee camps in West Beirut. The militiamen are allied with Israel which is accused of doing nothing to prevent the slaughter. Outrage over the massacre costs future Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon his job as Defense Minister.
1498Tomas De Torquemada, The catholic monk, notorious for his role in the Spanish Inquisition , dies in Avila, Spain.
1810Mexico begins its revolt against Spanish colonial rule. A catholic priest father Miguel Hidalgo declares his country’s independence. His rebellion soon fails but Spain formally relinquishes its new world colony 11 years later.
1977Maria Callas, the American born prima donna famed for her Lyric soprano and fiery temperament dies in Paris. She was 53 years old.
1925   The thrill is gone away. Guitarist B.B. King, one of the great Blues Artists of All Time is born in Mississippi.
Today in history, September 16th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
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