历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-09-10
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September 10th, 1989A sign of communism facing its collapse1 in Eastern Europe, Hungary allows about 7,000 refugees from communist East Germany to leave for non-communist West Germany. The move effectively bypasses the Berlin Wall, an iconic symbol of the Cold War, which falls just months later.
1935“We find our houses empty and our people hungry, many of them half-clothed and many of them not clothed at all.” Louisiana’s US Senator Huey Long, the Depression-era populist known as the “Kingfish”, dies two days after he is shot in
Baton2 Rouge3. Long’s
bodyguards4 gun down his assailant Carl Weiss immediately after he opened fire on the Senator at Louisiana State Capitol.
1846Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine, the device which brings clothing into the modern age.
1955Gunsmoke premieres on TV, on CBS just a few years after the popular Western
debuts5 on radio. The TV series starring James Arness and Marshal Matt Dillon runs for the next 20 years.
And 1945“Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad.” Christmas in September? Not quite. Singer and guitarist, Jose Feliciano, whose song “Feliz Navidad” is a Christmas classic, is born in Puerto Rico.
Today in History, September 10th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
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