历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-08-19（在线收听） |
August 19th, 1991In the Soviet Union, Communist hardliners announce that Mikhail Gorbachev has been removed from power. But the coup against Gorbachev during his vacation collapses days later. The Soviet Union dissolves by the end of the year.
1934Voters in Germany, overwhelmingly ratify Adolf Hitler`s powers as their Fuhrer or absolute ruler.
A plebiscite caps the Nazi leader`s rise to power, a path that leads to World War II and the Holocaust.
1960During the cold war, a Soviet tribunal convicts American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage. Powers is sentenced 10 years in prison. He is exchanged to a Soviet spy nearly 2 years later.
1906Philo T. Farnsworth, one of the pioneering inventors of television, is born in Beaver County, Utah.
And 1977“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas, how he got into my pajamas? I don’t know.” Comedian Groucho Marx, star of silver screen, radio and TV, dies in Los Angeles at age 86.
Today In History, August 19th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press. |
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