历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-01-06

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According to Tradition, Joan of Arc,France's national herione and Catholic Saint is born in the village of Domrémy. 1838.

Inventor Samuel Morse gives his first public demonstration¹ of the telegraph, dots-dashes in all, in Morristown, New Jersey². 1942.

Pan AM’s Pacific Clipper arrives in New York, becoming the first commercial airplane to complete around-the-world flight. 1994.

An attacker clubs figure skater Nancy Kerrigan on her right leg, among the men later sentenced to prison, the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival Tonya Harding.

And 1993.

The world loses two artistic³ greats. Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, dies at age 75. And ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, dies at age 54. Today in History, January 6th, Sophia Manos, the Associated Press.

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