历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-17
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May 17th, 1954In Washington, the U.S. Supreme1 Court strikes down racially segregated2 public schools as “separate and unequal”. The court's ruling in “Brown versus3 Board of Education of Topeka” fuels America's civil rights movement and the eventual4 end of legal segregation5 in the United States.
1973,Also in Washington, a U.S. Senate committee begins public hearings to investigate the Watergate scandal. Senator Sam Ervin,
Democrat6 from North Carolina, is in the committee chair. “If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States” The following year, the scandal forces Richard Nixon to become the first President to resign from office.
1792,Birth of the New York Stock Exchange as a group of
brokers7 meets under a tree located on what is now Wall Street.
And 1875,The horse Aristides wins the First Kentucky Derby, held at the track in Louisville, Kentucky that eventually becomes known as Churchill Downs.
Today in History, May 17th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press
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