在这一天, 十月. 25 …
1964: The Rolling Stones appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show” for the first time.
也是在这一天:
- 1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, “the Father of English literature,” dies in London.
- 1760: King George III of Britain is crowned.
- 1910: “America the Beautiful,” with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. 病房, is first published.
- 1917: The Bolsheviks under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seize power in Russia.
- 1929: Albert B. Fall, who was U.S. secretary of the interior under President Harding, is found guilty of taking a bribe. He is sentenced to a year in prison and fined $ 100,000.
- 1935: A major hurricane strikes Haiti, leaving more than 2,000 people dead and many thousands homeless and hungry.
- 1954: 美国. Cabinet meeting is televised for the first time.
- 1955: The microwave oven, for home use, is introduced by The Tappan Company.
John Steinbeck (美联社)
- 1962: John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1964: Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jim Marshall recovers a fumble and runs 66 yards the wrong way into his own end zone for a safety. Despite the gaffe, the Vikings defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 27-22.
- 1971: The United Nations recognizes the communist People’s Republic of China and expels the Nationalist Chinese government of Taiwan.
- 1983: 我们. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invade Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada’s Communist (pro-Cuban) 政府.
- 1994: Susan Smith of South Carolina claims that a Black carjacker drove off with her two young sons. (Smith would confess to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and be convicted of murder).
- 1999: Golfer Payne Stewart and five others are killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota.
- 2000: AT&T Corp. announces it will restructure into four separately traded companies (consumer, 商业, broadband and wireless).
- 2001: The Senate sends President Bush the USA Patriot Act, a package of anti-terror measures giving police sweeping new powers to search people’s homes and business records secretly and to eavesdrop on telephone and computer conversations.
- 2014: The World Health Organization says more than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola and that nearly half of them died.
