历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-09-14
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September 14th, 2001Americans mark a day of remembrance for the victims of the September 11th attacks. In New York, President George W. Bush tours the ruins of the World Trade Center. He tells rescue workers at Ground Zero just days after the attacks that topple the twin towers.
"I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you and people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."1901"I am leading because somebody must lead or else the fight would not be made at all."Theodore Roosevelt becomes America's youngest president at age 43. He succeeds William McKinley who dies more than a week later after he is shot by an assassin.
1814Francis Scott Key is inspired to write the poem whose words
ultimately1 become the national
anthem2 of the United States. He composes The Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812 after witnessing the British bombardment of
Fort3 McHenry in Maryland.
1879Margaret Sanger, the
founder4 of America's birth control movement is born in Corning, New York.
1982Princess Grace of Monaco, the former movie actress Grace Kelly dies of injuries from a car crash the day before. She was 52 years old.
1927Isadora Duncan, the modern dance pioneer dies in an accident in Nice, France. She’s killed when her scarf becomes
entangled5 in a wheel of her sports car.
And 1994"It's not a very happy set of circumstances for man. After all, we are in the baseball business."Baseball's
acting6 commissioner7 Bud8 Selig cancels the rest of the season due to a player's strike. That includes the World Series, the first October without that game in nearly 90 years.
Today in History, September 14th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.
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