历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-09
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June 9th 1954On Capitol Hill, US Army counsel Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joseph McCarthy over his tactics in fighting Communist version during the Cold War.
Have you no sense of
decency1, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
It's the beginning of the end of McCarthy's political influence. Months later, the senator takes the rare step of
condemning2 him over his methods.
1870 Charles Dickens, author of novels such as Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities dies in Gad's Hill, England at age 58.
1980Please, this is emergency, can I talk to God? I'll have to put you on hold.
Comedian3 Richard Pryor suffers almost fatal burns when a mixture of free-base
cocaine4 explodes at his home in San Fernando Valley, California.
1973Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes in New York, becoming the first to
clinch5 horse racing's Triple Crown in 25 years.
And 1915Les Paul, the electric guitar pioneer is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Today in History, June 9th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press
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