历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-05（在线收听） |
May 5th,1961 -Alan Shepard becomes America’s first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three, Two, One, Zero. Ignition. Shepard makes 15-minute suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom Seven. 1821 -France’s former ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, whose armies once swept across Europe, dies in exile on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
1818 - Karl Marx, the philosopher whose ideas bore fruit in communist regimes worldwide during the 20th centuryis born what’s now Germany.
1981 -Irish Republican Army member Boby Sands dies at North Ireland’s Maiz Prison during the 66 days of his hunger strike .
And 1891 -Composer Tchaikovsky conducts at the opening concert in Carnegie Hall, then known as Music Hall in New York city. Today in history, May 5th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press. |
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