历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-10（在线收听） |
October 10th, 1973Vice President Spiro Agnew, accused of taking bribes, pleads no contest to federal income tax evasion. Agnew then becomes only the second vice president in US history to resign. “Because I believe we will be against the national interest have a brutalizing effect on my family to go through a long two years’ struggle concerning this matter.” President Richard Nixon appoints and Congress confirms Gerald Ford as Vice President. Ford becomes President when the Watergate Scandal forced Nixon to resign the following year. 1911End of imperial rule in China, as revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrow the country's Manchu Dynasty. 1985US fighter jets force an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro hijackers to land in Italy. That's where the gunmen who seized the cruise ship on the Mediterranean are taken into custody. Also in 1985Orson Welles, the actor, director, and producer whose works include the movie masterpiece Citizen Kane, dies in Los Angeles. He was 70.
1813Giuseppe Verdi, considered one of the greatest opera composers of all time, is born in Italy.
And 2004"I’m here to fight for truth, and justice and the American life."Actor Christopher Reeve, who plays Superman in the movies, dies in Mount Kisco, New York at age 52. Reeve spends the last years of his life in a wheelchair, after he was paralyzed in a horse riding accident.
Today in History, October 10th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press. |
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