Today in History:Friday, May31, 2013

歷史上的今天：2013年5月31日，星期五

May 31st, 1889 The Johnstown flood swept people on the ground; the Johnstown flood washed away the town

In one of America's worst natural disasters, water sweeps through Johnstown, Pennsylvania after a dam breaks. The flood kills more than 22 hundred people and destroys more than 16 hundred homes.

1962, In Israel, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is hanged for his role in the Holocaust that killed six million Jews during World War Two.

1819,Walt Whitman, the poet and essayist whose works include “Leaves of Grass”, is born on New York's Long Island.

2003,Eric Rudolph, wanted for years for a series of deadly bombings in the South, is arrested outside a grocery store in rural North Carolina. Rudolph, an anti-government extremist, gets life behind bars after pleading guilty to the bombings, including the Atlanta Olympic Park blast.

And 1930,“Go ahead, make my day.” Clint Eastwood, actor, and an Oscar-winning director and producer, is born in San Francisco. His work on both sides of the camera includes “the Dirty Harry movies”, “Unforgiven”, “Mystic River”, “Million Dollar Baby”, and two films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Today in History, May 31th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.