历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-24
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April 24th, 1980, eight U.S. servicemen are killed when an abortive1 mission to free the American hostages in Iran ends in disaster. President Jimmy Carter: "It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed in the placement of our rescue team for a future rescue operation.” The following year, Iran frees the hostages on Carter’s last day in office after 444 days in captivity2.
1916, the Easter Rising begins in Ireland. Some 1,600 Irish nationalists seize several key sites in Dublin aiming to end British rule over the entire Emerald
Isle3. British forces crushed the rebellion almost week later. 1915, The Ottoman Empire, home of modern day Turkey, begins a mass
deportation4 of Armenians during World War I. About 1,600,000 Armenians die of starvation or killed in forced
exodus5. Hundreds of thousands more are driven into exile.
1968, In New York, leftist students at Columbia University began a weeklong occupation of several buildings on campus. And 1942, People, people who need peopleBarbra Streisand, singer and actress, director and producer is born in Brooklyn, New York.
Today In History, April 24th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
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