历史上的今天-Today in History 2009-08-27（在线收听）

 August 27th, 1883One of the world's most devastating explosions is the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the south Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia killed some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra. 1908"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the great society." Lyndon Johnson, the first American President from the South to be elected since the civil war is born near Stonewall, Texas. Johnson's legacy includes landmark civil right laws, Medicare and medicate, anti poverty programs and the tragic escalation of the Vietnam war. 1910Mother Teresa, the missionary who earned a Noble Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the poor is born in present day Macedonia. 1859Edwin Drake, drills the first successful oil well in the United States near Titusville, Pennsylvania.