历史回顾:洛克比空难的恩怨情仇(视频)
Jan 31st, 1958. America enters the Space Age, successfully launching its first satellite into orbit “Explorer One”. It happens just month after the Soviet Union launches sputnik, the very first satellite into orbit.
2001. Libyan Intelligence officer is convicted of murder and gets life in prison for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland. That’s the verdict from a Scottish court convened in the Netherlands. The court acquits a second Libyan in the 1988 bombing which killed 270 people.
1945. Private Eddie Slovik becomes the first US soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion. Slovik is shot by the American firing squad in France during the final month of World War II in Europe.
1923. Norman Mailer, one of the great American authors in the years after World War II is born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
1797. Composer Franz Schubert, is born in Vienna, Austria.
Today in history, Jan 31st, Mike Gracia, the Associated Press.
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