历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-28(在线收听

 January 28th, 1986Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. All seven crew members on board the Challenger, among them school teacher Christa McAuliffe, are killed.

President Ronald Regan tells a shocked and grieving nation:”We’ll never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.”
1596Sir Francis Drake, the mariner who became the first englishman to circumnavigate the globe, dies off the coast of Panama.
1853Jose Marti, the Cuban revolutionary who fought for his country’s independence from Spain, is born in Habana.
1959“I wanna say this that is a great game, the game of great lessons.”
Vince Lombardi is named the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, in the following decade; he leads the Packers to victory in the first two Super Bowls.
Today in History, January 28th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
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