历史上的今天-Today in History 2016-05-30

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May 30th, 2002

 

In New York, the end of the agonizing¹ clean up at Ground Zero, eight and a half months after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Retired² firefighter Tom Steffens says he can hardly believe what he sees where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood. 

 

It's scary. It's just atomizing  two giant beautiful buildings were here and, now it's gone. It's that what’s like a baseball field, just flatten³, just nothing there, is this… it’s a discard ranching⁴

 

1431,

 

In France, Joan of Arc is burned at the stake, condemned⁵ as a heretic. Today, she is France's national heroine and a Catholic saint.

 

1982 ,I’ve always been someone that just grudges⁶ out and tries to do the best I can, take one day of the time

 

Cal Ripken, Junior of the Baltimore Orioles plays the first of what becomes a record 2,632 consecutive⁷ games in major league baseball.

 

And 1909,

 

Benny Goodman, the jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the “King of Swing”, is born in Chicago.

 

Today in History, May 30th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

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