历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-09-15
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And they died in Birmingham. September 15th, 1963In Birmingham Alabama, a tragedy that galvanizes America’s Civil Rights Movement. Four black girls are killed when a bomb explodes during Sunday services at the 16th street Baptist Church. Three Ku Klux Klansmen are eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.
2005Weeks after Hurricane Katrina slams into the
Gulf1 Coast, President George W. Bush speaks from storm-ravaged New Orleans. He acknowledges Washington’s failures in responding adequately to the disaster and urges Congress to approve a massive
reconstruction2 program. " When the federal government fails to meet such an obligation, I, as president, am responsible for the problem and for the solution."1935Nazi Germany
enacts3 the Nuremberg Laws, depriving German Jews of their
citizenship4. The laws which also adopt the swastika as Germany’s official symbol are a major step on the road to the
holocaust5.
1950During the Korean War, American-led forces under the United Nation’s banner stage a daring landing at Inchon. The amphibious assault behind enemy lines leads to the liberation of South Korea’s capital Seoul from the communist North.
1776British forces occupy New York during the American Revolution. They remain for the next seven years until the United States achieves its independence.
1890Agatha Christie, the mystery writer whose works include Murder on the Orient Express, is born in Torquay, Devon, England.
And 1946“We all have a violent
demon6, all of us, I mean some more
recede7 than others, but it’s there!” Oliver Stone, movie director and screen writer, is born in New York City. Among his films, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born
Killers8 and Born on the Fourth of July.
Today in History, September 15th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.
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