历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-08-27
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August 27th, 1883, one of the world’s most devastating1 explosions as the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia Sunda Strait kill some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra.
1908, “In your night, we have the opportunity to move not only towards the rich society and powerful society, but
upwards2 to the great society. .” Lyndon Johnson, the first American President from the south to be elected since the Civil War, is born near Stonewall Texas. Johnson’s
legacy3 includes
landmark4 Civil Rights Laws, Medicare and Medicaid, Antipoverty Programs and
tragic5 escalation6 of the Vietnam War.
1910, Mother Teresa, the
missionary7 who earned a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the poor the poor, is born in present-day Macedonia.
1859, Colonel Edwin Drake drills the first successful oil well in the United States near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
1979, Britain’s Lord Louis Mountbatten near’s killed when his boat explodes off the coast of Ireland. The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for the blast.
And 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, is found dead in his London flat after an overdose of sleeping pills . Epstein who help guide the Fab Four to Rock and Roll stardom was 32 years old.
Today is History. August 27th. Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
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