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历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-03-21

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 March 21st 1965 - Civil rights demonstrators led by Dr. Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It happens weeks after marchers pushing for black voting rights in the South are attacked in Selma. The marches lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act months later.

1960 - In South Africa， police fire on a crowd of blacks in what becomes known as the Sharpeville Massacre1. Some 70 people are killed, more than 180 wounded during this bloody2 chapter in that country's apartheid years.
1989 - Randall Dale Adams is released from a Texas prison, following a dozen years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Adams's conviction for killing3 a police officer was overturned after the documentary “The Thin Blue Line” challenged the evidence.
And 1685 - Composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Germany. Today in History, March 19th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

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1 massacre i71zk     
n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀
参考例句：
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！
2 bloody kWHza     
adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染
参考例句：
  • He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
  • He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
3 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

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