历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-12
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September 12th, 2001It's the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed thousands of Americans. In New York, stunned1 rescue workers search for bodies in the smoking rubble2 of the World Trade Center. And in Washington, President George W. Bush condemns3 the attacks， which also badly damaged the Pentagon， as “acts of war”. “Our country will, however, not be cowed by terrorists.”
1943,During World War Two,
Nazi4 German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini, Italy's
deposed5 dictator. They free him from a hotel in northern Italy where his own government was holding him prisoner. Mussolini rules a Nazi puppet state in the north until he's killed near the war's end in Europe two years later. 1960,John F. Kennedy faces critics who question whether being a Catholic should disqualify him for the White House. The Democratic presidential candidate tells a group of Protestant ministers in Houston. “I am not the Catholic candidate for president; I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, who happened also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.” Kennedy becomes America's first Catholic president when he narrowly defeats Richard Nixon that fall. 1953,Wedding bells for a future White House couple, as Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island.
1977, Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko .
In South Africa, black student leader Steven Biko dies while in police
custody6. His death triggers a global outcry against South Africa's
racist7 apartheid regime.
And 2003, Because of your pride, I walked life."In Nashville, singer Johnny Cash, the “Man in Black”, dies of complications from
diabetes8. The country music legend was 71. Today in History, September 12th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
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