历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-03（在线收听） |
September 3rd, 1939, 2 days after Adolf Hitler’s forces invade Poland, Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, whose policy of appeasing Hitler was meant to prevent what becomes World War II. “Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything different that I could have done and drought of being more successful.” 1783, official end of the American Revolution as the United States and Britain signed a Treaty of Paris. Under the treaty, Britain recognizes the independence of its 13 breakaway colonies.
2004, a 3-day-hostage siege at a school in Southern Russia ends in bloody chaos. Chechen militants who seized the school in Beslan set off bombs while Russian commandoes stormed the building. More than 330 people, most of them children, are killed in the carnage.
1976, Viking II, the unmanned American space probe lands on Mars. The NASA craft takes the first close-up color photos of the red planet’s surface.
And 1970, “ I wanna say this, but it’s a great game-the game of great lessons.” In Washington, NFL holly fame Coach Vincent Lombardi, dies of cancer. Lombardi, who led the Green Bay Packers to win the first two Super Bowls, was 57 years old.
Today in History, September 3rd. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press. |
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