历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-13

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Live Aid, a global rock concert to raise money for starving people in Africa, takes place in London and Philadelphia. The mammoth¹ events sponsor charity music concerts in years to come, from Farm Aid and Hurricane Katrina Relief to Live 8 and Live Earth.

1793. A bloody² milestone³ during the French Revolution. Jean Paul Marat, a revolutionary writer is stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday. She’s executed 4 days later.

1863. In New York City, riots erupt against the Union’s military draft during the American Civil War. Over the next 3 days, more than a thousand people, many of them blacks, are killed in the violence.

1977. A power blackout leaves New York City in the dark for 25 hours, after lightening strikes north of the city. As a result, looting, vandalism and arson⁴ hit the Big Apple, already reeling from a severe financial crisis. And 1942. “Snakes. Why do we have to be snakes?” Actor Harrison Ford⁵, best known on the silver screen as Han Solo and Indiana Jones is born in Chicago. Today in History, July 13th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

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