历史上的今天(English)

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June  20th

1597: On his third voyage in search of a northeast passage from Europe to Asia, Willem Barents, the Dutch navigator after whom the Barents Sea was named, dies after spending a winter frozen in the Arctic Ocean.


1837: Following the death of her uncle, William IV, Queen Victoria takes the British throne at age 18, beginning a reign of 63 years, the longest in British history.


1863: Led by Union loyalists unhappy with Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861, the mountainous western region of Virginia forms its own government and becomes West Virginia, the 35th state.


1893: After a sensational murder trial, Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

1910: After spending much of her teen years performing in burlesque and vaudeville, Fanny Brice first appears in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910, the show that makes her famous.


1948: "Toast of the Town," a variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan, debuts on CBS. Later known as "The Ed Sullivan Show," it runs until 1971 as one of the most popular programs in American television history.



Born on This Day

  

Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905)

Kurt Schwitters, Dada artist (1887)

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys songwriter and producer (1942)

Vikram Seth, novelist and poet (1952)

Errol Flynn, film actor (1909)

Audie Murphy, war hero and actor (1924)


Born on This Day

  

Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905)

Kurt Schwitters, Dada artist (1887)

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys songwriter and producer (1942)

Vikram Seth, novelist and poet (1952)

Errol Flynn, film actor (1909)

Audie Murphy, war hero and actor (1924)

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June 21st

1788: The United States Constitution takes effect after New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.


1877: Ten members of the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish immigrant coal miners, are executed for their roles in a violent coal strike in Pennsylvania.


1964: Future baseball Hall-of-Famer and U.S. senator Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first perfect game in the National League in 84 years.


1964: The Haitian National Assembly adopts a new constitution that proclaims Fran鏾is "apa Doc" Duvalier president for life. He remains dictator of the country until his death in 1971.


1978: Evita, a musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice based on the life of Argentine political figure Eva Perón, opens in London.


1997: The New York Liberty defeats the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57 in the inaugural game of the Women's National Basketball Association1788: The United States Constitution takes effect after New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.


1877: Ten members of the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish immigrant coal miners, are executed for their roles in a violent coal strike in Pennsylvania.


1964: Future baseball Hall-of-Famer and U.S. senator Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first perfect game in the National League in 84 years.


1964: The Haitian National Assembly adopts a new constitution that proclaims Fran鏾is "apa Doc" Duvalier president for life. He remains dictator of the country until his death in 1971.


1978: Evita, a musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice based on the life of Argentine political figure Eva Perón, opens in London.


1997: The New York Liberty defeats the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57 in the inaugural game of the Women's National Basketball Association.



Born on This Day

  

Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (1892)

Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani prime minister (1953)

Mary McCarthy, writer (1912)

Joaquim Machado de Assis, novelist and short-story writer (1839)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, painter (1859)

Fran鏾ise Sagan, novelist and playwright (1935)

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June 22nd

1938: Two years after Adolf Hitler took German boxer Max Schmeling's defeat of American Joe Louis as a sign of Nazi superiority, Louis defeats Schmeling in their rematch by knocking him out in the first round.


1941: Breaking the nonaggression pact signed by the two countries in 1939, Germany invades the Soviet Union, sending over 3 million troops across the border.


1944: President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, known as the GI Bill of Rights, which provides tuition, low-interest mortgages, and other benefits to veterans.


1977: Former attorney general John Mitchell begins serving his sentence for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, becoming the first U.S. attorney general to go to prison.


1978: The U.S. astronomer James W. Christy discovers that the planet Pluto has a moon more than half its diameter, which he names Charon.


Born on This Day

  

Meryl Streep, actor (1949)

Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian nationalist (1805)

Katherine Dunham, dancer and choreographer (1909)

Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian president (1947)

Carl Hubbell, baseball pitcher (1903)

Dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator (1933)