历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-16（在线收听）

 March 16th, 1968The My Lai Massacre takes place during the Vietnam War. US troops under the command of Lieutenant William Cally Jr. kill hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. High ranking army officers initially cover up the incident, but former soldiers make it public. Cally is accused of directing the killings and gets life in prison, but is later paroled. 1985. Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, is abducted in Lebanese capital Beirut. AP photographer Donald Miles saw it happen. “When I saw them pull him into a car. I tried to advance towards one of these gunmen. He waved his pistol at me as it to go away.” Anderson is freed more than 6 and half years later, William Burkley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, kidnapped on the same day as Anderson a year earlier, dies in captivity. 1926. Rocket science pioneer Robert Goddard successfully tests the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts. And finally, also that same year. “Like the hopes, that was dashed, when the star knock it cry, ahahaha…”