历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-07-01
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July 1st, 1863The bloodiest1 battle of America’s Civil War begins between Union and Confederate forces in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1946The world’s first peacetime test of nuclear weapon. The United States explodes 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1898In Cuba, future president Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders wage a
victorious2 assault on San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.
1961“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. And I know that I can give love.” Britain's Princess Diana is born Diana Spencer near Sandringham, England, The charismatic Diana drew worldwide fame and
tabloid3 headlines before her death in a Paris car crash at age 36.
1997In Asia, Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule after more than 150 years as a British colony. China’s Communist leaders promise to let Hong Kong keep its capitalist ways and civil liberties for the next 50 years.
And 2004I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
Actor Marlon Brando, stage and silver screen legend , dies in Los angles at age 80. Among his roles, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and The Godfather.
Today in History, July 1st. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
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