历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-03-16

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 March 16th, 1968The My Lai Massacre¹ takes place during the Vietnam War. US troops under the command of Lieutenant² William Cally Jr. kill hundreds of unarmed civilians³ in the village of My Lai. High ranking army officers initially⁴ cover up the incident, but former soldiers make it public. Cally is accused of directing the killings⁵ and gets life in prison, but is later paroled. 1985. Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, is abducted⁶ in Lebanese capital Beirut. AP photographer Donald Miles saw it happen. “When I saw them pull him into a car. I tried to advance towards one of these gunmen. He waved his pistol at me as it to go away.” Anderson is freed more than 6 and half years later, William Burkley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, kidnapped on the same day as Anderson a year earlier, dies in captivity⁷. 1926. Rocket science pioneer Robert Goddard successfully tests the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts. And finally, also that same year. “Like the hopes, that was dashed, when the star knock it cry, ahahaha…”