2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 19th, 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England f

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 16th, 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Ho

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 17th, 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on wha

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 14th, 1980, President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services. On this

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 15, 1972, George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 12th, 1820, the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, was born in Florence, Italy.

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May 13th, 1940, in his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told the House of

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May tenth, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first tr

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

The new West African state will incorporate the Gold Coast, Ashanti, the Northern Territories and Togoland, which recently voted to integrate with the Gold Coast. He set the target date for indepe

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May eighth, 1945, President Truman announced in a radio address that World War Two had ended in Europe

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May ninth, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill as safe for birth control use. (

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May sixth, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible "Hindenburg" burned and crashed in Lak

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May seventh, 1975, President Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era.

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May fourth, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University,

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May fifth, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Junior became America's first space trav

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May second, 1863, Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On May third, 1999, tornadoes roared across Oklahoma and Kansas, killing at least four dozen people and i

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

The president announced he had appointed Defence Secretary Elliott L Richardson as the new Attorney General and had charged him with full responsibility for revealing the truth behind the Waterg

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

At 2230 local time a newsreader announced that reports from the Fuhrer's headquarters said Hitler had "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting to the last breath against Bol

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 28th, 1789, there was a mutiny on the "Bounty" as the crew of the British ship set Cap

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 29th, 1945, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp; that same day, Adolf Hitl

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

People's War memories

In fact the first contact was made between patrols on 25 April when a first lieutenant and three men of an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon of the US division met

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

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A massive bomb has ripped through the heart of the City of London, killing one and injuring more than 40. The explosion shook buildings and shattered hundreds of windows, sending glass s

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 25th, 1945, delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations