历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-09-04
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September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration1 of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school.
Weeks later, hundreds of US Army paratroopers escort the students into the school under an order from President Dwight Eisenhower.
Also, that same year“This is the Edsel, unlike any other car you`ve ever seen. This is the Edsel.”
Ford`s new model, the Edsel, makes its ill-fated
debut2 in
auto3 showrooms across United States. It is a massive
flop4 with the car-shopping public, becoming a
lasting5 symbol of
corporate6 failure.
1781In present day California, Spanish settlers found Los Angeles, now the second largest city in the United States.
1888George Eastman gets a patent for his roll-film camera and registers his
trademark7, Kodak.
1995In New York, attorney William Kunstler who
spoke8 up for the politically unpopular dies of cancer, at the age of 76. During his career Kunstler represented clients from anti-de Vietnam War
radicals9 to suspects in the first World Trade Center bombing .
1972American swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seventh gold medal during a single Olympics at the Summer Games in Munich, in what`s then West Germany.
2006Steve Irwin, better known as television`s block Crocodile Hunter, dies after a stingray
barb10 pierces his heart while diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Erwin was 44.
And 1981Singer and actress Beyonce Knowles is born in Houston.
Today in history, September 4th, Diane Kepley, the Associate Press.
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