历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-03
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August 3rd, 1492. Explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain on his first voyage across the Atlantic that takes him to the present day Americas.
1914. Europe deepens its descent into World War I as Germany declares war on France just days after declaring war on Russia.
1948. In Washington, a cold war case heats up Capitol Hill, that’s where Whittaker
Chambers1 accuses Alger
Hiss2 of being a communist and a spy for the
Soviet3 Union. Hiss is a former State Department official. Chambers, an ex-communist, is an editor at Time Magazine. “Mr. Hiss represents the
concealed4 enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting.”
Hiss denies the charges, but later spends 5 years in prison for
perjuring5 over his dealings with Chambers.
1981. Air traffic controllers in the United States go on strike, defying a warning from President Ronald Reagan that they would be fired. “They are in
violation6 of the law, and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have
forfeited7 their jobs and will be terminated.” Reagan dismisses the roughly 11,500 controllers who do not return to their jobs and the government hires
replacements8.
1949. Birth of the NBA, as two
pro9 basketball leagues, the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball Association,
merge10.
And 1926, “I left my heart in San Francisco.” Tony Bennett, the singer who won new found fame with the MTV generation, is born in the New York City neighborhood of Astoria. Today in History, August 3rd, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
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