历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-15（在线收听） |
April 15th, 1912, just hours after hitting an iceberg, the Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland. About 1,500 people on board the British luxury liner perish in the waters of the icy North Atlantic. 1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washington, hours after John Wilkes Booth shoots and mortally wounds him at Ford’s Theater. Vice President Andrew Johnson succeeds Lincoln in the White House.
1947, Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?It went zoomin cross the left field wall. Yeah boy, yes, yes. Jackie hit that ball.
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in major league baseball. His debut with Brooklyn Dodgers shatters baseball’s decades-old racial barrier.
1986, the United States launches an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a disco in what’s then West Berlin, Germany. Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, are killed in the raid.
1998, Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies of natural causes along the border with Thailand at age 73. He evades prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians under his brutal regime during the 1970s.
And 2001, Twenty twenty four hours to go, I wanna be sedated.
In New York, punk rocker Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramones, dies of lymphoma at age 49.
Today in History, April 15th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press. |
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