历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-16（在线收听） |
February 16th 1862 A blow to the breakaway South during the Civil War, some 14,000 confederate soldiers surrender to Union Forces in the Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 2002 – "Families from the Walker County and around the world have been horrified to learn that their love ones may not have been properly like ... "Authorities in Georgia arrest a crematory operator after hundreds of decomposing corpses are found stacked in storage sheds and in the surrounding woods. The operator, Ray Brent Marsh later pleads guilty and gets 12 years behind bars.
1987 - John Demjanjuk goes on trial in Jerusalem accused of being the Nazi concentration camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible.”
Demjanjuk is later convicted but Israel’s Supreme Court overturns that conviction.
1968 – America gets the first 911 call; a successful test of the emergency phone number in Haleyville, Alabama.
And 2005 – "It's all about greed, and people want to keep their profits. I really don't have any sympathy for the owners or for the players".The NHL scrap what’s left of its season, already decimated by a walk-out over a salary cap for its players.
Today in history, February 16th, Mike Gracia, the Associated Press. |
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