历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-17
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Jan.17th. 1706, Benjamin Franklin, author, publisher, inventor and one of America’s most famous founding fathers is born in Boston.
1945, in the final month of World War II in Europe,
Soviet1 and Polish forces
liberate2 Poland’s capital Warsaw from
Nazi3 occupation.
1961, just days before leaving office, President Dwight Eisenhower offers a cold-war-era warning for Americans in his farewell address.
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.”
1995, in Japan, an earthquake, magnitude 7.2,
devastates4 the city of Kobe,
killing5 more than 6000 people.
1899, Al Capone is born in Brooklyn New York, but it is in Chicago where the
gangster6 called “Scarface” leaves his most notorious mark.
And 1942, “I’m gonna float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.”
Mohammad Ali, the former heavyweight boxing champion
dubbed7 himself ‘the greatest’, is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
Today in history, Jan 17th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
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