历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-01-17(在线收听

 Jan.17th. 1706, Benjamin Franklin, author, publisher, inventor and one of America’s most famous founding fathers is born in Boston.

1945, in the final month of World War II in Europe, Soviet and Polish forces liberate Poland’s capital Warsaw from Nazi occupation.
1961, just days before leaving office, President Dwight Eisenhower offers a cold-war-era warning for Americans in his farewell address.
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.”
1995, in Japan, an earthquake, magnitude 7.2, devastates the city of Kobe, killing more than 6000 people.
1899, Al Capone is born in Brooklyn New York, but it is in Chicago where the gangster called “Scarface” leaves his most notorious mark.
And 1942, “I’m gonna float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.”
Mohammad Ali, the former heavyweight boxing champion dubbed himself ‘the greatest’, is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
Today in history, Jan 17th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
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