2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 30th, 1862, Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 31st, 1980, Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 28th, 1963, 200-thousand people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington DC,

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 29th, 1944, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 26th, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 27th, 1975, Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Add

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 24th, 1814, British forces invaded Washington DC, setting fire to the Capitol and the White Hou

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 25th, 1944 Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation. On

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 22nd, 1950, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted in

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 23rd, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Bosto

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 20th, 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 21st, 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicte

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 18th, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, w

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 19th, 1812, the USS "Constitution" defeated the British frigate "Guerriere"

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 16th, 1977, Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42. On th

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
One year ago, on August 17th, 1999, more than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Turkey. On this date:
In 1807, Robert Fulton's "No

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 14th, 1900, international forces, including US Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer R

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
August 15th, 1945, was proclaimed "V-J Day" by the Allies, a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally. On this date:
In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 12th, 1960, the first balloon satellite -- the "Echo One" -- was launched by the Unit

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Thousands of angry demonstrators quickly gathered on the West Berlin side of the divide. At one crossing point, protesters tried to trample down the barbed wire, only to be driven back by guards w

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August tenth, 1846, Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist Jame

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August eleventh, 1909, the S-O-S distress signal was first used by an American ship, the "Arapaho

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August eighth, 1974, President Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging r

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

In a statement issued from Guam, General Carl A Spaatz, Commander of the US Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, said: "The second use of the atomic bomb occurred at noon, August 9, at Nagasa

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

The President said the atomic bomb heralded the "harnessing of the basic power of the universe". It also marked a victory over the Germans in the race to be first to develop a weapon u