历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-15
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April 15th, 1912, just hours after hitting an iceberg1, the Titanic2 sinks off the coast of Newfoundland. About 1,500 people on board the British luxury liner perish in the waters of the icy North Atlantic.
1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washington, hours after John Wilkes Booth shoots and mortally wounds him at Ford’s Theater.
Vice3 President Andrew Johnson succeeds Lincoln in the White House.
1947, Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?It went zoomin cross the left field wall. Yeah boy, yes, yes. Jackie hit that ball.
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in major league baseball. His
debut4 with Brooklyn
Dodgers5 shatters baseball’s decades-old racial barrier.
1986, the United States launches an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a disco in what’s then West Berlin, Germany. Libya says 37 people, mostly
civilians6, are killed in the raid.
1998, Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodia’s Khmer
Rouge7, dies of natural causes along the border with Thailand at age 73. He evades
prosecution8 for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians under his
brutal9 regime during the 1970s.
And 2001, Twenty twenty four hours to go, I wanna be
sedated10.
In New York, punk rocker Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramones, dies of lymphoma at age 49.
Today in History, April 15th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
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