历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-01-24
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January 24th 1848.
Northern California James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, a discovery that sparks the Gold Rush the following year.
1965.
In London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led his nation through the dark days of the World War II, dies at the age of 90.
“…if the British Empire and its
Commonwealth1 last for 1000 years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’”
1989.
Confessed
serial2 killer3 Ted4 Bundy is executed in Florida’s electric chair for the
rape5 and murder of a 12-year-old girl.
1993.
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to sit on the US
Supreme6 Court, dies at Bethesda, Maryland. Marshall, a
legendary7 civil-rights lawyer and
activist8 before his time on a high court, was 84.
1949.
“ ‘Over’? Did you say ‘over’? Nothing is over until we decide it is!”
Actor John Belushi, who played Bluto in the movie “Animal House” and one of the original cast members of TV Saturday Night Live, is born in Chicago.
Today in history, Jan 24th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press
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